The papers of Monday recorded several naval events, of which
we may mention the following. The ' Pegasus,' a cruiser of about two thousand tons, was caught in Zanzibar Harbour while
under repairs by the German cruiser Konigsberg.' The guns of the Pegasus' were outranged, and she was completely dis- abled. The casualties were about twenty-five killed and eighty wounded. A most interesting and encouraging episode was the duel in the old-fashioned manner between the " British auxiliary cruiser Carmania,' " which is of course the well- known Cunarder, and the German auxiliary cruiser Cap Trafalgar,' of the Hamburg-Sild-Amerika line. It was a fight between ships of equal strength. After an hour and three- quarters the Carmania ' sank the ' Cap Trafalgar.' In the Carmania ' nine men were killed and twenty-six wounded. We heartily congratulate Captain Noel Grant on his success- ful action. His fight is the nearest modern parallel to the duel between the Chesapeake' and the Shannon ' in 1813 ; but we shall not press the flattery of the comparison too far lest we should be reminded of the words attributed to the captain of the Shannon' when he declined a public banquet on the grounds that " the Shannon' was always an unassum- ing ship."
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