NAVAL OPERATIONS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4945, 19 September 1914, Page 5

NAVAL OPERATIONS.

GERMAN PREPARATIONS. Petrograd, This Day. Kronstadt papers express tho opinion that the main German fleet is preparing to operate against Russia. SUPERB SEAMANSHIP. London, Last Night. Reliable.—A superb exhibition of seamanship was given by tho torpedo flotilla which has its its base at Harwich, during a gale of exceptional severity that raged for two days. For 24 hou.rs hatches were battened down, while sailors on dock duty stood at their posts lashed to the rails. GERMAN VESSELS RELEASED. Melbourne, Last Night. Three more German vessels were released, and proceed to Sydney to unload their cargo for New Zealand and elsewhere. LOSS OF SHIPPING. London, Last Night. Tho shipping paper “Fairplay" states that tho Allies have sunk and seized 352 German merchantmen of 853,852 gross tons, of which Britain seized 587,476 tons and tho Allies seized 159,401. The Germans have seized 173,041 of British tonnage and 3261 Russian. France has seized 17,010 of Austrian tonnage. The British tonnage sunk, including the Oceanic and many trawlers, is 105,521 tons.

BIG LINER SUNK. BY GERMAN CRUISER. Auckland, Last Night. Nows has been received in insurance circles, in Auckland that the Harrison liner Diplomat, 7600 tons, with £250.000 worth of cargo, has been sunk in the Bay of Bengal, by the German cruiser Emden.