A very pleasant piece of naval news reached London on
Thursday morning. H.M.S. Cumberland,' Captain Cyril Fuller, has captured no less than nine German liners (eight belonging to the Woermann Line and one to the Hamburg- Amerika Line) off the Cameroon River in West Africa. The total tonnage taken is thirty-one thousand. The vessels, we are told, were in good order, most of them containing general outward and homeward cargoes, including consider- able quantities of coal. It is further announced that the German gunboat ' Soden ' has been captured and commissioned, and it is expected that the floating dock and another Govern- ment. vessel which had been sunk can be raised. No date is given for the capture, but it is assumed that this great haul was due to the fact that on the announcement of war all the German vessels on the West Coast took refuge in the Cameroon River.
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