On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 38, 1 October 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

THE TWO NAVIES. THE GERMAN FLEET WILL SOON BE READY. WILL IT COME OUT? Copenhagen, September 30. Travellers from Ijviel state that the canal is crowded with warships, including the largest battleships. The ,arsenal is working day and night, and Trains are continuously coming \jdth the very latest ordinance from Krupp’s, which will complete the battleships’ armament.^ Tho Germans declare that the whole fteet will soon be ready to come out and fight. SIXTH GERMAN CASUALTY LIST. Copenhagen, September 30. The sixth German naval casualty list gives thirty-on© officers and 435 men missing. No engagement has been officially reported since the Heligoland light, on account of tho heavy list. RUMOR OF THE EMDEN. London, September 29. Rumors are current among tea traders that two Japanese cruisers sank the Emden in the Indian Ocean. LIGHTHOUSE CANNONADED 1 SQUADRONS OF BATTLESHIPS AND DESTROYERS IN THE '*■ BALTIC. (Received 9.30 a.m.) Potrograd, September 30. A German destroyer cannonaded the Backhoffen lighthouse, eleven miles south of Windau. Squadrons of warships and destroyers were seen off' Windau a few days ago. (Windau, Russian seaport in Courland, on the Baltic, 120 miles northeast of Memol. Population about 10,000).

HEAVY GALE A T SEA. BODIES OF GERMAN JACK TARS WASHED ASHORE. (Received 8.45 a.m.) Copenhagen, September 30. The heaviest gale in living memory is sweeping the Denmark German coast. A number of bodies of German Jack Tars were washed ashore at Esbyergt. GOOD FORTUNE RATHER THAN SPEED SAVES THE EMDEN. (Received 9.30 a.m.) . London, September 30. Despite the Emden’s depredations the insurance rates in the open market are still 40s per cent., compared with 42s quoted by the State insurance office. The Emden’s bottom is known to he very foul, and it is considered that her evasion of the searching vessels is due to good fortune rather than speed. GERMAN COLLIERS CAPTURED AFTER LEAVING MANILLA. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Sydney, October 1. Passengers by the Inabamaru, from Japan, state that while they wore held up at Manilla several steamers left coal-laden, apparently being intended

for German warships. All were captured suo.i after ieu» ...g ..oiitral wafers by the .Japanese. lue latter worked a clever ruse, deu.ijing it to be very good to sell them coal, get then money and then await them outside and catch them. ESCAPE FROM CAPTURE. BRITISH VESSEL SECURED BY GERMANS. ENGINEERS DUPLICATE PIECE OF MISSING MACHINERY. (Received 10.30 a.m.) Brisbane, October 1. The steamer Southport reached port yesterday after being captured by the Germans while lying at the island of Kusale in the Solomon group. On August 14th the cruiser Geiser arrived and seized the her, the British flag being hauled down and the German flag hoisted. The crew were not molested, but portions of the machinery ana the coal were removed to prevent her putting to sea. On September 7th the Geiser left hurriedly, and the Southport’s engineers set to work and managed to lix up the engines to produce a slow speed. They secured a supply of native food and departed on the night of the 18th with lights out. All had an anxious time, as, with crippled engines, she slowly voyaged to Brisbane.