BRITISH AT OSTEND.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 174, 28 August 1914, Page 5

BRITISH AT OSTEND.

STRONG FORCE OF MARINES LANDED. TOWN AND DISTRICT OCCUPIED. (Received August 28, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 27. The First Lord of the Admiralty, the Right Hon. Winston- Churchill, in the House of Commons, announced that a strong force of marines had been landed at Ostend. The-marines hive occupied the town and surrounding districts. ' CRUISER SINKS LINER. A HUGE GERMAN VESSEL. H.M.S. HIGHFLYER SENDS HER TO THE BOTTOM. (Received August 28, 9.10 aan.) LONDON, August 27. The British cruiser Highflyer sank the large German liner Kaiser AVilhelin der Grosse, which had been converted into sin armed merchantman. EXCHANGE OF SHOTS. CASUALTIES ON THE CRUISER. (Received August 28, 11.30 a.m.) \ LONDON, August 27. During an exchange of shots one man Wks killed and five wounded on the Highflyer. [ELM.S. Highflyer is a second-class truiser of 5600 tons displacement. She s fourteen years old, having been completed at Fairfield in 1900. Like her sister ship, the Hyacinth, she has a speed of 20 knots, and her complement is 456 men. Her guns comprise eleven 6-inch, nine 12-pounders, one 3-pounder, and two machine guns.: She also has two torpedo tubes.] [The merchant-cruiser Kaiseif Wilhelm Grosse is one of the best known of the Norddeutscher-Lloyd boats. The vessel was 14,349 tons register, 626 ft in length, 66ft >in breadth, with a beam of 39ft, arid eight cylinders with 3094 n.h.p. She was built in 1897 at the Vulcan works, Stettin, and was fitted with wireless. The armament is of 6in guns and smaller quickfirers.]