AUSTRO-GERMAN SQUAD. RONS.
TO ATTACK FRENCH FLEET London, sth inst. A German cruiser fired sixty shots at Bona, Algiers. The batteries replied, and the cruiser left in the direction of Gibraltar. It is believed that she was captured by the British vessels guarding tne Straits of Gibraltar.
Advices from Rome state that the German Mediterranean squadron is in the neighbourhood of Messina. It has been instructed to join the Austrian squadron and to attack the French fleet. French' destroyers captured two big German sailing vessels in the North Sea and took them to Dunkirk and Calais.
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Te Puke Times, Volume II, Issue II, 7 August 1914, Page 3
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