THE "BLOCKADE."

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 71, 24 March 1915, Page 5

THE "BLOCKADE."

CAPTURED NEUTRAL SHIPS. PROTEST JFROM THE DUTCH. AMSTERDAM,, March 23. : The Set&eriandi ' Government" hae " iriV quired of Berlin why non-contrahaml cargo aboand the Xhi tcih eteamens Zauns - stroom and Baiavia was confiscated; why the vessels were detained; and -why they -were compelled to strike their flags and itojst the German, flag. _ „,,....„., ; (Times and Sydney Sim Serried.) LONDON, MareK 23. A passenger by the Dutch" steamer Bate,via, wihieh was seized wi»n oil the. way ifrom Botterdam to lendson, etates t/hat he -vras awakened ou Thnrsday morning and told that a Bobmarise had captured the ~ ship. German oJEaere bokirdcd the vessel amd took it to Zeebrugge. Ail the passengers were confined in the eabiiiE a'hen brmsjht into the inner haibour. They were kept im- | prisoned for two days, and ■were, not jaßowed on deck, lihey to a train at Ghent, «I3icere-gutarding tihe windows of -IS«e cairriagea. ' Sixteen members of itbE crew of the Dutch steamer Zamnstrnam Trtrkfc icas also seized by a German subnerme, iave ar-' ■ rired at Amsterdam. -_>&ey. that I the Germane boisted the -war. flag on the two Dutch eteaurars. ;-., ■ -. -. » ; TORPEDO AHD BOMB. BRITISH SHIPS ATTACKED. LONDON, -March 23. ; The steamer 'CdDcord>Tras-torpe<ioed in' the Channel. Ste is'stiil afloat. Tie crew waa landed ; at'TSdver. "" , .^ A Grerman aeroplane, flying ■ over the North Sea, threw four, bombs at, but mksed the British steamer Elfland, 4190 tons, laden with gram for the Belgian: Relief Commission". . ' The officer in ohurge, mawjeavred hie. Bteamc-r until a British-deateoyer came. and drove off the ainnaa.'