RUTHLESS VENGEANCE ON PIRATES

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2691, 10 February 1916, Page 5

RUTHLESS VENGEANCE ON PIRATES

GERMAN SUBMARINE CREW'S ■GRIM FATE BRITISH WILL HOLD KUT-EL-AMARA CHANGES RUMOURED IN HIGH ■ .COMMANDS■ Naval engagements. of a more or less formal kind are, in the present war, somewhat infrequent events, and hence, no doubt, the news of a sea fight in the- Adriatic will stir the public interest. The affair, in the bald remnant of the s*ory that emerged from the ' office, conveys little to kindle the imagination. Four Austrian destroyers were forced to run for it, and subsequent attacks by submarines were foiled. News from the Eastorn and Western fronts is scanty. The British are lesolved to hold Sut-el-Amara as a position of im-port-ant strategic value. The Russian Minister of War has delivered a striking utterance on the nation's marvellous recovery from two great blows which might well have paralysed a less determined and resolute people. The full story of the Baralong incident discloses a - grim tragedy of the sea; the Hun 6ea pirates did not meet their fate at the hands of the Baralong crew, but fell victims to the infuriated vengeance of the American cattlemen on board the Nicosian.