THE NAVIES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16234, 2 April 1917, Page 7

THE NAVIES.

ENEMY OFF LOWESTOFT. • 7 PATROL TRAWLER SUNK. 1 (Australian and *N.Z/> Cable Assn. and -Renter.) 3 Received 5 5 p.m., April Ist. " % v , LONDON, March 31«•' Tto' Admiralty reports that during " ' the night of .the 28-29 th firing was V observed off shore' from Lowestoft. T Patrols went at full speed-to the scene but rtothing was seen of the enemy, who T bad made off. ® j* A Berlin, official 'says:—On the " night of the 28-29 th parts of our naval ~r* forces cruised in the .barred zone' off the Bcuth coast of England and beyond. "Z The armed Bytish steamer Mascotte ~z was encountered eight miles east of Lowestoft and sunlc fty, gunfire. Neither *• enemy fighting forces nor were sighted. Seven men of the Mas- £ cotte wr e made prisoners'. The Admiralty points .out that the ~"t ■ only British steamer named is "unarmed.' The above' German mes- ■■ sage presumably refers to the' patrol tf trawler Mascotte. 1 -* , NAVAL ' APPOINTMENT. % (Australian anil N.Z. Cable Assn. , 1 % N and Reuter.) ~ Received II.S p.m. April Ist.. LONDON, March 31. - 'I Admiral Sir George Callaghan To-—' places Admiral Sir Arthur Fanshawe, t the latter retiring owing to the age limit. Vice-Admiral Sir Frederick. Brock has been • promoted, Admiral ' Ifytey being absorbed in the establishment of the War Office. H'

NEW GERMAN RAIDER. ' ELEVEN SHIPS ACCOUNTED FOR: Received 1.40 a.m., April 2nd.- •• RIO JANEIRO April 1." ?< The French steamer Cambronne has : • arrived with two hundred of ihe • crews of eleven Allied vessels sunk by _• a Gorman raider in the vicinity of Trinidad. They say that many oni? board were destroyed and perished. "I ha f' Tefngees are mostly Italian, French, ' pnd English. ' The rader is described as a sailer / equipped with two gasoline . motors. It She flies the Norwegian flag and pretends that she wishes to speak with her " victim j When the latter- stops shehoists the German flag and opens a continuous fire until the ship surren- _ ders, when she removes the crew and ?inks the shiri. The raider's name is the Secad'er, commanded by Count Aknor. Shelhas sixty-four of a crew, is armed with two guns and sixteen machine guns, and equipped with eighteen months supplies of munitions, oil and other things. tfc is supposed that she left Germany on December 22nd. '