TRAWLER SUNK WITH LOSS OF LIFE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2432, 10 April 1915, Page 7

TRAWLER SUNK WITH LOSS OF LIFE

THE "FRIGHTFUL" BLOCKADE A PIRATE LAIR DISCOVERED BY AIRMEN London, 'April 8. Two Grimsby trawlers report that they saw the trawler Zai'ina torpedoed or mined in the North Sea. Nine persons were drowned. The Zarina, 154 tons, built in 1894, is owned by H. L. Taylor, of Grimsby. THE OUTRAGE ON THE STEAMER FALABA CRUSHING REPLY. TO GERMAN DENIALS. London, April 8. The Press Bureau, in a crushing reply to the Germans' denials that they murdered the steamer Falaba's passengers, says: "It is rot true that sufficient time was given the passengers and. crew to escape The submarine fired at short range, making great loss oflife absolutely certain.. Tho conduct of all aboard the Falaba was excellent." PIRATE HAVEN ON NORWEGIAN COAST DISCOVERED BY NORSE AIR-SCOUTS. , Copenhagen. 'April 8. ■Norwegian airmen discovered several German submarines taking refuge in Bergen Bay (on the west coast of Norway), and ordered them to leave immediately or be interned. There have been other attempts to use tha Norwegian coast as submarine bases. A PIRATE SUPPLY SHIP "SPOTTED.". ' (Rec. April 9,11.40 p.m.) London, April 9. The chief officer of a Danish steamer says that he saw a submarine, after sinking the Acantha (reported recently) go alongside a steamer in the vicinity and apparently receive supplies. THE WEEK'S LOSS IN MERCHANT SHIPPING. London, April 9, 2.35 a.m. The High Commissioner reports:— "The Admiralty announces that of the arrivals and sailings of steartiers of all nationalities to and from the United Kingdom ports during the week ended April 7, a total of 1234 vessels, there have been sunk five/- their gross tonnage totalling 8904 tons. British fishing vessels sunk or captured numbered live, their gross tonnage being 914 tons. „ • FULL DAMAGES FOR THE WILLIAM P. FRYE . GERMANY AGREES TO FOOT THE BILL. . Washington, April 8. Germany has agreed to pay full damages for the ship William P. Frye and her cargo, provided a Prize Court establishes the facts. ..[The American ship, the William P. Fryo, was sunk by tho German cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedri.ch on the morning of January 28 last. The owners of the William P. Frye insisted that the vessel's destruction was- a" plain act ,of piracy, and demanded, through the Amerciim Government, full reparation from Germany for the loss of tho vessel and, her cargo of wheat, the total value of ivhich was in the neighbourhood 6t £100,000.1