THE GERMAN TORPEDOER

Otago Witness, Issue 2842, 2 September 1908, Page 30

THE GERMAN TORPEDOER

LONDON, August 30.

The German Consul states that the torpedoer at present in the Tyne is there owing to a breakdown.

August 31

The Chronicle and Telegraph state that the German torpedoer in the Tyiie had followed the herring fleet, as usual, from Aberdeen. The manoeuvres suddenly concluded on Saturday.

This incident, whatever its cause may have been, recalls the Kaiser's mysterious visit to the British Channel fleet ir the North Sea in July. The British Channel fleet was at anchor in Aalbeek Bay, on the north-east coast of Denmark, when, at about 7 o'clock in the evening, the Hohenzollern, flying the Imperial Standard, escorted by the cruiser Stettin and the torpedo-boat destroyer ftleipner, was sighted on the horizon steerin or for the anchorage. Lord Charles Bereeford, Commander -inChief of the Channel fleet, promptly gave the order to dress ships with masthead flags, and when H.I.M. the Kaiser arrived he was greeted with a royal salute of 21 guns from the whole fleet manned, with guards and bands paraded. The Hohenzollern came up to the fleet at a quarter to 8 o'clock, steamed round the bows of the Hindustan, between the third and fourth divisions of the_ battle fleet, passed under the stern of King Edward VII — the Commander-in-Chief's flagship, — and then turned again, steering quite close tc all four flagahip*. _Hi« Majesty then departed in tlie Hohenzollern as

invsteriously as ho had anived

As ho pa<->cd each -ship tlie jSational | Anthem was pl^ed, and three cheers given, During the whole tirno tlv- Kaiser remained t^v^L^sSt^z^J^ „!,.,„..,, f