PAPER BLOCKADE ACHIEVES SMALL RESULTS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 63, 15 March 1915, Page 5

PAPER BLOCKADE ACHIEVES SMALL RESULTS

INSIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF BRITISH MERCHANTMEN SUNK.

GERMANS HARD AT WORK ON SUBMARINES.

LONDON, March 14. The Admiralty announces that from the beginning of the war to February 7, 73 British merchantmen were sunk, or captured Of this number eleven were sunk by mines and eleven by submarines. Forty-six fishing vessels were captured or sunk during the same period. The Admiralty states that the following British merchantmen have been submarined since March 10:— Adenwen, 3,798 tons, in the English Channel on the 11th; towed to Cherbourg. Florazan, 4,658 tons, at the mouth of the Bristol Channel, on the 11th; sinking unconfirmed; crew landed except one fireman. Headlands, 2,088 tons, not sunk. Indian City, sunk. Andalusian, 2,340 tons, sinking unconfirmed. The above three were submarined off the Scilrya on the 12th. All the crews are reported saved. Hartdale and Southrock, in the Irish Channel,- on the 13th; not sunk; two drowned, 29 saved. Invergyle, 1,794 tons, off Creswell, on the 13th; sunk; aU saved A steamer believed to be Swedish has been mined and sunk off Scarborough. Two of the crew were killed. The rest were picked up. A German cruiser has seised in the Baltic the Norwegian Steamer Bryesel, oil-laden from America to Stockholm. The" British previously examined the* steamer, but released her, being satisfied with the genuineness of the statement as to the destination of the cargo. x The Amsterdam "Telegraaf" states that Reuters Agency confirms the report that 500 German workmen are hurriedly building submarines at Antwerp. Germany in reply to the Norwegian Note asking for an explanation of the sinking of the steamer Belridge, which sank off the Hook of Holland, has stated that the steamer was not torpedoed by a German submarine. ENEMY'S RAIDERS STILL BUSY IN SOUTHERN WATERS. NARROW ESCAPE OF THE CRUISER KARLSRUHE. i LONDON, March 14. A released prisoner who was lately aboard the Karlsruhe states that lie heard that when the Glasgow ceased chasing her the German cruiser had only five tons of coal aboard. . . A report from Santiago de Chile reports that the German cruiser Dresden has sunk the British barque Conway Castle. The crew have arrived at Valparaiso. According to advice from Buenos Ayres, the s.-med merchantman Kroa Prinz Wilhelm has- sunk the French steamer Guate Loupe off Fernando Noronha, an island off the Brazilian coast. In American naval circles frank admiration is expressed for the career of the merchant cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, which recently put Into Newport for repairs.. It is considered that from a technical standpoint the work of the Prin, EitsJ puts |ha MIMU flfJig XBteJpftadUflfr' -