ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 16040, 26 January 1918, Page 3

ON THE HIGH SEAS.

TWO GERMAN DESTROYERS. DESTROYED BY MINES. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 2.1. An officer and 16 of the crew of_ a German destroyer landed at Hon\ ig, on the west coast of Jutland. j. lle Y state that five destroyers left Heligoland on Sunday. When they had proceeded 60 miles the destroyer A 7. was mined and sank. The destroyer A. o hastened to the rescue, and was also mined and sank, whereupon the ieroaming throe steamed away southwards. The whole, crew of the A7o perished. A FIGHT WITH SUBMARINES. MADRID, Jan. 24. ' The Governor of the Canary Islands reports an engagement between a British war vessel and two submarines, on the 17th inst. off Ferrol. The ing day Spanish gendarmes found two German sailors, who stated thev belonged to U-boat* 291 and 295. Thev refused to state what was the fate of the submarines. CAUSE OF GOEBEN-BRESLAU DASH. 1 I LOND,ON. Jan. 24. The Daily Mail's Athens correspondent says that the Goehen-Breslan dasn is closely connected with the GraecoGerman intrigues for Constnntinws reatoration, intending to raid and dostroy the Levant'shipping, the success whereof would have enabled tho L»erman agents in Greece to stir up dissension and endeavour to promote civil war. AMERICAN VESSEL. LOST. NEW YORK, Jan. 24. Survivors arriving at an Atlantic port report that the American steamer owasco was torpedoed early in Decernher on tho Mediterranean coast.