THE NAVIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15503, 13 November 1914, Page 7

THE NAVIES.

, TORPEDOER NIGER SUNK. BY ENEMY SUBMARINE. (High CoMmissioner's Cable.) LONDON, Not. 12 (12 a>m.) Official.—The Niger was torpedoed by a submarine this morning in the Downs, and foundered. All officers and seventy of the crew were saved. It is thought that there was no loss of lifft. ITlie Niger was a torpedo vessel of 810 tons, built in 1893. She carried two 4.7 inch guns and four 3-pounderS. The Downs is a upacioais roadstead be tween tihe Goodwin Sairls and tlie coast of Kent, and is the favourite rendezvous of Oiltwardbound vessels from London waiting for a favourable wind to take them through the Straits of Dover.] • " JVITNESSED FROM THE SHORE. BY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE. Received 9.20 p.m., Nov. 12th. Thousands of spectators on the sea front wero watching a hundred Ships anchored in the Downs. Suddenly an explosion was heard and smoke was seen rising frota the Niger, which was two ment, wliile scores of fehore boats werelaunched, and the crew rescued. The Niger sank in twenty minutes."" Three of the survivors were injured by the Explosion. ' . | A submarino was seen, buttorpedoers! patrolling the Downs failed to catch it. !

AN EMDEN COMPLIMENT. JUST IN TIME, "Times" and Sydney "Sun" v Seirvteas. Preaa Aaiociation —By Tel.—Copyright. LONDONi Nov. 11. Last week the Kaiser telegraphed to the Burgomaster of Emden, congratulating the town on its godchild in the Indian ocean, "whose bold cruising deeds fill every German heart with pride and joy." HONOURS OF WAR, ACCORDED THE PRISONERS. (High Commissioner's Cable.) LONDON, Nov. 11, Official—The Admiralty announces that the captain of the Emden, and Prince Franz Joseph of Hohenzollern, I the Kaiser's nephew, are both prisoners iand unwounded. | Unofficial.—The losses of the Emden I were 200 killed and 30 wounded. ' The Admiralty directs that the ..honours of war are to be accorded to the survivors; captain and officers are not to be deprived of their swords. — i | FURTHER CONGRATULATIONS. SIR GEORGE REID JUBILANT. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright Received 8-l0 p.m., Nov. 12th. Nov. 11. Sir George Reid, referring to the capture of the Emden, said the sea breed is all right, and never more all right than when Australians are on Australian ships under the White Ensign with Australia's flag at the jack staff. The newspapers publish highly congratulatory tributes. The "Daily Telegraph" says', "In the Nelsonian spirit of humanity every assistance was rendered to the Emden's survivors. Australians may be proud of the manner in which their navy was blooded. It was New Zealand's joy to know that her gift ship shared in the honours scored in the movement off Heligoland. To-day it is the Commonwealth's turn to rejoioe." The "Daily Mail" says, "The rest of the Empire Will frankly envy an exploit Which, with very useful work in the Pacific already standing to Credit, overwhelmingly justifies Australia's prescience and patriotism in starting her own naval unit." American papers declare that it must be an especial gratification to Britain that an Australian warship sank the Emden in view of the virulently contemptuous tone in which Germany invariably commented on the uselessness of the British overseas Dominions for military and naval purposes.