ON THE HIGH SEAS

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144669, 1 May 1915, Page 3

ON THE HIGH SEAS

LOSS OF FRENCH CRUISER. ROME, April 30. It was calm and moonlight when tho French armoured cruiser Loou Oarnhctta was torpedoed. Tho first torpedo wrecked tho water-tight compartments. Tho officers made no effort to escape, but assembled on the bridge and shouted “Vivo la France I” as tho vessel was engulfed. ADMIRAL VON SPED. NOT A MERE PIRATE. (Received Slay 1, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The Hon. V. L. Allardyce, ex-Gover-uor of tho Falklands, relates that after the battle of Coronet tho German colony at Valparaiso gave a banquet to Ad'niiral von Spec. Tho final toast was ‘■Damnation to tho British/savy.” Admiral von Spec rose and said that neither he nor his officers would respond, and withdrew. At the door ha observed that flowers had been strewn on the stops in his honour and remarked; “You had bettor keep these for my grave. They may bo wanted.” BRITISH STEAMER SUNK. (Received May 1, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 30, Lloyd’s Stornoway correspondent reports that a British steamer was sunk by a submarine off tho island of Lewis. The crew landed at Carloway, Lewis. THE APRIL RECORD. OF SUBMARINE CAPTURES. (Received May 1, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. The Admiralty reports that submarines sank nine vessels in April, totalling 17,124 tons, and ten trawlers of 1755 ions. A submarine sank a trawler 75 miles off the Tyne. She cave tho crew time to quit. A patrol boat afterwards chased the submarine and fired several shots. OFFICIAL BUT RATHER LATE. (Received May 1, 10.5 a.m.) LONDON, April 30. Official. —A British cruiser rc-captnr-ed the steamer Macedonia, a HambnrgAmerika liner which escaped from internment at Las Palmas on March 17. AMERICAN STEAMER BOMBED. NO DAMAGE CAUSED. {Received 51 ay 1, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. German airmen threw two bombs at the American steamer Cushing midway between the North Foreland and Flushing, doing no, damage.