NAVAL MISHAP.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1490, 21 November 1918, Page 4

NAVAL MISHAP.

NEW ZEALAND RAMS AUSTRALIA. (Rcc. Nov. 21, 11.15) SYDNEY, Not. 21. A recently-returned blue jacket states that he was aboard the warship Australia when it was rammed by the Warship New Zealand. The vessels were engaged in a decoy expedition in the vicinity of Heligoland. The accident was caused by an error in executing an order. Australia, badly damaged, managed to crawl home, he added. "Only the fog saved us. There were plenty of German submarines about and we would not have had a chance if one had spotted us. NAVY. IN DESPERATE PLIGHT.Australian and X.Z. CaJde Association. (Roc. Nov. 21, 0.15) COPENHAGEN, Not. 19. Captain Persius, in the "Tageiblatt" makes sensational revelations. Only the misty weather and von Scheer's good leadership saved the whole fleet from destruction at Skager-Rack. Otherwise, the British long-range guns would have smashled up the lighter Germans. As jit was the German Josses were enormous.

By the beginning of 1918 23 battleships had been disarmed owing to the scarcity of metal, and only dreadnoughts and battle cruisers remained. The rest were destroyed and the metal taken. Eighty-three submarines were constructed in 1917, of which 66 were destroyed. In October, 1917, Germany had 146 submarines and in June, 1918, 113, but only about 12 per cent, were actively engaged. Thirty per cent, of the submarines were in harbour and 38 per cent repairing. Twenty per cent, were incapacitated. The crews were insufficiently trained and it was very difllcuit to get men in the last months, the seamen regarding the submarine as political stupidity. When the navy was ordered out for a second Skager-Rack, mutiny broke out. If the seamen had obeyed, innumerable lives would have been lost. BIG GERMAN WAR VESSELS. (A. & N.Z.) COPENHAGEN, Nov. 18. Advices from Berlin state that the first part of the German fleet for surrender, comprising the battleships Baye'rn, Grosser Kurfuefst, Kronprinz Wilhelm, Markgraf, Koenig Albert, and Kaiserin, and the cruisers Seydlitz and Moltke, left Kiel Harbour on November 17. SUBMARINES SURRENDER. Australian and X.Z. Cablr Association. (Rcc. Nov. 21, 9.15) NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Twenty German submarines surrendered to Admiral Tyrrwhit, on the Harwich coast.

THE BRITISH THRONE.

TRIBUTES TO THE KING, (Renter) LONDON, Nor. 18. In the House of Commons, Mr Bonar Law, on behalf of Mr Lloyd George, who was slightly indisposed, moved a resolution congratulating the King on the conclusion of the armistice and the prospects of a victorious peace. "The war," he said, "has broken the crust on which civilisation rested, and Europe is seething with revolution. Nevertheless, we are able to look to the future with hope, courage, and confidence, because our institutions are based on the strongest foundation, namely, the consent of the nation." None of these institutions was stronger than the Throne. It was the link which kept the Empire together, and would make union closer and closer. But the Throne would have been much less strong but for the character of its occupants. He paid a tribute to the whole-hearted, unselfish devotion of the King and Queen throughout the war to the task to which the nation was devoted. "When kings are rapidly disappearing like phantoms, our King everywhere is meeting with tributes of respect, devotion, and affection," he said. "Those phantom kings fell because they placed their state on an imaginary divine right. Our King has rested secure because the foundation of the Throne is the will of the people." Mr Asquith said that principalities and powers apparently inviolable and invincible, which seemed to dominate a large part of mankind, lay in the dust. All things had become new. In the crash of thrones, some built on unrighteousness, some propped on a brittle threadwork of convention; the British Throne stood unshaken, based on the people's will, reinforced by the living example of the King and his Consort, who always had shown that they were not to be ministered unto, but to minister.

The resolution was adopted unanimously with enthusiasm.

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