BIG GUNS AT WORK.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 235, 7 November 1914, Page 10

BIG GUNS AT WORK.

THE NAVAL BATTLE. FLAMES FROM GOOD HOPE. :/7/; Wf BRITISH STEAMER MISSING. HAS THE DRESDEN GOT HER t By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright, (Received November 7, 12.20 p.m.) LONDON", November 6. The New York story of the naval action states that when the two squadrons were six thousand yards apart, the Good Hope fired her nine inch guns. A broadside from the Scharnhorst and the Gnesenau crippled the Good Hope, and her engines stopped. The Monmouth made a d&sh to cover her, but the distance between the squadrons was reduced to live thousand yards, and the Germans were able to bring all their ships into action. They concentrated their fire on the Monmouth until she sank. ■ The ships were now -1500 yards apartr The Good Hope living on until the" explosion, and then withdrew to the westward at 7.30. Flames wero seeu as ?..he disappeared. The Nurnberg searched for wounded until daybreak, but was uirablo to launch boat's, to the g.ale blbv^ing. (Received November 7, • 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, November 6. The Houlder steamer La Carrentina has not been heard of for a month, and possibly she has been a Victim of the . German cruiser Dresden, which was rocently off the Atlantic coast South America,. The La Carrentina carried two 4.7 inch guns. ... :.i AVIATOR DROPS BOMBS. GERMANS LOSE BIG GUtf. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION DESTROYED. ' (Received November 7, 12.20 p.m.) / PARIS, November 6. A French a viator dropped bombs on *tae railway at Blanieliy,. preventing several German trains from regaining th j lines. Frenc! -put out to take prisonc • found " that the bombs had wrecked; a 17in gun, .rettjufritig six trucks to carry it. Each shell weighed almost a tori. VIOLENT ATTACKS REPULSED. GERMANS DRIVEN BACK. ' ; E^PE. PARIS, November 6. France has dec 1 - 1 war oi Turkey. Official (midnigl.' : A violent German offensive*, n6rthward ; of AtxJsl&\ took place and some -trenches; ,wese4j«t but were subsequently re-taken. ' All the &ernian attacks" on *. » Saint Hubert district and the Argonue have been re-

pulsed.;'" : The Kaiser arrived at a tavern in Tliielle at five o'clock dn ing, and, after dining, instead.*>£•:retirirg to his room he motored to .the pther end of the town. TWenty minutes later six bombs fell or the tavera u and killed two aides-de-eamp and djeptroyeid the Kaiser's baggage. "THE MISERABLE ENGLISH." AFRICAN REBELLION. GENERAL SMUTS OPTIMISTIC. (Received November 7, V 2 CAPE TOWN, November 6. De "\yeij' referring t.o the f' miserable and pestilential English," s added? that King Edward had promised toprotect the Africa.nders, but failed. V, General Smuts> .at Durban, said the rebellion was fizzling out, and : | that Maritz's! invasion had. been nipped in the bud. The Transvaal movement was insignificant, and had only assumed certain dimensions in Northern Orangia - .. . . V ; " QUEER HOSPITAL SHIP. EXPLOSIVES ON BOARD. A PLEA FROM PEliSlA.fi (Received November 7,2 p.m.) LONDON, November 0. A quantity of explosives were found aboard the German hospital ship Ophelia, detained by the British., Fifty of the officers and . crew .have been landed at Gravesend and sent to ai concentration; camp,. Most "of th f e 'sailors* liats : bp,re destroyers' names. PersiA,• in reiterating her position of neutrality, asks Britain, tb Persia from becoming a theatre of) war. TO DYNAMITE SUEZ.] GERMAN OFFICERS' PLANS. SENT TO GAOL FOR LIFE. (Received November 7j 2 p.m. 1 ) CAIRO, NoVeihber 6. A German, officer has be§n.forested at Alexandria, while returning-'from- Turkey with, jjlans, to clyhamitfe 't-hb 'Suez Canal. He was and sentenced to penal servitude for life.