The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-11-05

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LONDON. Nov. .--Battleships and bat
lie cruisers detached from the British
grand fleet are searching tho North Sea
for German squadron Of four battle
ships and four cruisers which slipped
from Wilhelmshaven for a raid or the
English coast.
Paraphrasing the words OF tho First
Lord OF the Admiralty, Winston
Churchill. the rats have come out Of
their holes" ready, apparently, for a
test OF strength in the open sea. There
liz intense interest here, with the hope
everywhere Enthusiastically expressed
that Admiral J,llicoe's fleet can locate
the German battleships and cruisers
and destroy them.
To the British public the reports.
seemingly correct, that the German
fleet has taken 70 the sea and Is ing
hunted is the most exhilaratinE NJ VS.
that has Sesn received for weeks Great
crowds are gathered IN front of the
newspaper bulletin boards and near the
Admiralty offices tonight In the mere
hope that great tidings are imminent.
There Ia, however, "A disquieting side
to the reports. 1t appears that the at
tempt to bottle UP the German war
ships in the Kiel Canal has not been
altogether a success, and that the bat
tleships and cruisers whose movements
are reported from Dunkirk and else
where were able to evade British scouts
and patrols
Unquestionably n German fleet which
fired on the torpedo gunboat HalcyOn
yesterday was within ten miles of the
English coast, and was manpuvring
of Yarmouth. II is not at all likely that
this squadron was the battleship and
cruiser squadron reported as leaving
the kiel Canal. II was most likely a
squadron OF light cruisers and destroy
ers engaged in mine laying along the
English coast.
RE raid has had the effect Of stiffen-
ing the coast defence. Troops at Var
mouth and other points along the coast
have been stationed along all roads lead
ing from the shore TO the towns, ready
with rifle and ball cartridges to deal with
the remote contingency OF force OF
Germans landing on English soil. The
engagement between the Halcyon and the
German warships took place so near Var
mouth that one shell exploded within a few
hundred yards OF the naval air station
on the south side Of the town. Other
beach.
The fact that tho Germans were able
10 evade powerful British cruisers and
actually TO threaten the coast has created
much excitement and some alarm, but II
IL supposed that the Admiralty Is able to
deal adequately with the new danger
II Ia scarcely to DO doubted that a
change has come over German naval
policy. The Germans are apparently de
termined not to submit to being bottled
up and are willing to hght for the control
OF the North Sea Signs OF ehe activity
~ their ships appear in several quarters
II Is reported from Cop nhagcn that a
feet of German warshlps has gathered
or tho Aland Islands, in the Baltic Sea,
n--theast OF stockholm and opp 'site the
entrance OF the Gulf of Finland They
were proceeding notrhward evidently and
we're stopped 10 await orders,
Only two officers and two seamen Of the
submarine D-5. which was sunk by a
mine dropped from n German cruiser after
the engagement on Tuesday, We're saved,
The mine dr!fters Fraternal md Conious
struck mines and were blown up, MI @
of the ten men OF the crew OF the Coplous
were drowned and six were drowned on
the Fraternal