NAVAL ACTIVITY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 764, 22 July 1916, Page 9

NAVAL ACTIVITY.

BATTLE IN THE BALTIC. I VIOLENT CANNONADING HEARD. j A •'•lrnliti,, nt.il V/. Cablf Atfofiation. LONDON, July 21. If is reported th:il a naval engagement took place in the Baltic on Wednesday night. The indications are that the Germans were repulsed. COPENHAGEN. July 21. I A violent cannonading between Landsort and Gottska Sandoe was heard on Wednesday night. A large German iorpedo-destroycr was seen next morning steaming rapidly to the southward. It is supposed that the Russians were pursuing the GerImans, as tiring was still audible in a j more southerly direction. Firing was also heard near Sundsvall. I | I-mdsorl is «i lighthouse on thr Swedish r«uist. :»0 milfs south of Stockholm. (Gottska Siindoc is ii sni:ill island .*»0 miles east lif south of I-ii id so rt mid 2fi mile* north of Gothland. Sundsvall is a timber y*H*t iA Sweden, on the shore •of the C»ulf (I Bothnia.] IN THE NORTH SEA. SI DMA BINES AND ZEPPELINS SIGHTED. COPENHAGEN. July 20. Steamers arriving here report having sighted a large number of Gerj man submarines in the North Sea, S apparently of a bigger and newer Ivpe. A number of Zeppelins were also sighted. NAVAL PRISONERS. BRITISH AND GERMAN CAPTURES RntUr'* 7 tl* cron,*. * LONDON, July 21. In the House of Commons, Dr T. J. Macnamara. Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty, said that we had raptured 130 German naval ofii- , vers and 207 X seamen. The Germans had captured 45 Hrilis.h naval officers and 304 seamea.