AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON'S WORK.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13732, 22 March 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON'S WORK.

PURSUIT OF THE GNEIBENAU

AND SCHARNHORST,

Fremantie, March 20

A returned stoker on one of the Australian warships supplies interesting details of the long chase after the Scharnhorst and Gnoisenau. Sometimes they would learn from the Islanders that two "huge ships crept into tho harbour for provisions at night and hurriedly left at niglit.

Frequently ethergrams came the way of the warship, and in a few minutes she would be throbbing in the enginerocm, but there "was always nothing at the end of the long chase. Once they caught a wireless from one of the* pursued ships.

They asked "Who are you?"

The German arrogantly replied : "We are all right. You will have to learn <jferman soon."

• . The Australian ship replied: "Perhaps you will have to learn Japanese." -The.unen always slept at the guns.

.Sweeping operations on the > West Coast of America in- company with Japanese cruisers, were responsible for driving the Germans into Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee's guns,.