THE FLEETS

Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12864, 13 August 1914, Page 5

THE FLEETS

GERMANS CUNNINGLY DECEIVED. Received 11.45 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 12, Morning. A cruiser squadron on Sunday sighted a submarine flotilla with only the periscopes showing. The cruisers coolly pretended that they did not see them, and deceived the Germans, who steamed within range. The Birmingham saw her opportunity, and steaming at full speed fired at the periscope and shattered the submarine, which, blinded, rushed on under water in imminent danger of self-destruction through collision with the cruisers or her own consorts. The latter, recognising the attack was defeated, steamed off. The cruisers knew the submarines were sightless and must come to the surface. When the conning , tower appeared the Birmingham prepared a second shot. She was just in time to see the distinguishing number of the latter when the shot struck the base of the conning tower, where it was awash. It ripped the whole upper structure, and the submarine sank like a stone. REPORTED BATTLE NEAR SAN SALVADOR. ' NEW YORK, August 12. Captain Tergeson of the Norwegian steamer, Lovland, reports a battle between German and British cruisers 250 miles north of San Salvador. The German cruiser fled under the Britisher 'a fire. The extent of the damage is unknown.