THE PIRATE WAR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2846, 10 August 1916, Page 5

THE PIRATE WAR

SHIP-FOR-SHIP REPRISALS i QUESTION IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT « ' '■ Australian-New Zealand Cable Association/ \ London, August S. V: Replying in the House of Commons, ■ to a question whether, in the terms of peace, the Allies would insist on tak'mg from Germany an equal amount of. i shipping to make up . the losses "sustsuned in the .war Mr. . Asquith said thiat tho question jiad'not been overlooked, but 'it would be premature and ; inexpedient to make any announcement \ in connection with peace terms. GERMAN TRANS ATLANTIC ' , SUBMARINES REPORTED SINKING OF THE .BREMEN. New York, August 8- ' Tho Berlin "Tageblatt" states that > the transatlantic submarine Bremen . '; has been sunt, through an*accident to ■ 1 her machinery.. - ■ i . [The Bremen was > sister submarine ' of the Deutschlaiid, designed for Ger-. ■! raany's transatlantic , merchant ; ser- i vice. On July 29 she was a week • > overdue at Baltimore, for which place it was indicated had sailed:] i two submarines sighted. New Tork, August-8. \ j The look-out at Cross Island saw ' i two submarines five miles off the coast. 1 As they canio to the surface he heard .i sevoral blasts ■ frojn a lighthouse on ■■■> Seal Island, which is a British posses- ' j. sion. Tho submarines immediately ;; submerged. j THE LUSITAIA CRIME GERMAN "HEAD-PATSIENT" OFFER.' Washington, August 8. It is officially ■stated that the United States has no intention of accepting. 1 an jndomnity as compensation for tlio : American lives lost in the Lusitania.. • . on tho basis. [According to a message published yesterday the "New York Sun" lijuJ , sai(t that Count Bernstorff (the Ger- ! man Ambassador) was urging Mr. Lansing (Secretary of State) to sign an agreement whereby Germany W[Qjil<t give a strict accountability in cash for j every American lost in the Lusitania, i the prico to bo 5000 dollars . (about £1000) for each man, and less for wo- 1 .' men and children. It is feared that' . j if the agreement is made the public will strongly protest against the pro-: < posed money equivalent for American . .-J lives.] , DANISH SCHOOL EXCURSION STEAMER CAPTURED 200 CHILDREN TAKEN TO GERMANY. (Rec. August 9, 8.5 p.m.) - Copenhagen, August 9. The Danish passonger "Boat Ydun "i (645' tons), was returning to Copen- j; hagen with two hundred schoolboys and • girls, who had been holiday-making at ; Jutland, when she was captured in the ! Cattegat and taken to Germany,