THE SUBMARINE.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2732, 31 May 1915, Page 4

THE SUBMARINE.

A DANISH STEAMER SUNK

The Danish steamer Ely, from England to Sundswall, struck a mine and •was sunk, off Stockholm., The crew was saved.

Says the Sydney. Sun editorially: Up to the present, it does not seem that our ' national interests require tho segregation of all men of German birth. ,What the times do demand is tho swift removal from society of Germans who are a menace to "our civic circle. Any German whose speech or conduct is a threat to the steady unity of purpose of Australians should be immediately interned, whether his social position bo high or low. If it bo found by military or police inquiry —the authorities need not wait for jud'cial inquiry iv such a case —that 'any Herr or Hans is encouraging hostilo feelings, or in any degree tending to provoke strife and disorder in our midst, let him be spirited away to a camp where he can do no harm. At present that method seems to. suffice for the preservation of safety and peace, against German machinations in Australia,

Tho Germans have (says the Copenhagen correspondent of the London Daily News) established farm labour exchanges and concentration camps in North Schleswig. where the farmers have chosen British prisoners suitable for the cultivation of the land and taken them to their farms, escorted by Landsturm. The imagination reels at the thought of sturdy Scottish soldiers ploughing the German soil & few miles north of the Kiel Canal. That, however, is the bitter fate of many of the prisoners. A Dane from Hamburg described to me that he saw from a German mail train a group of cheerful bearded Scotsmen in charge of two fat Landsturm working in tho ficelds. Many of the young farmers at Schleswig will never return from East Prussia, where they

were sent to fight the Russians, or will return too late for the spring cultivation. The German- Government accordingly devised a scheme, with the Help of Schleswig farmers, whereby nearly all the farm wqrk and land cultivation -will be done by British French, and Russian prisoners. Each farmer is'- allowed 10 prisoners, and the Scottish soldiers from agricultural districts are preferred. They earn 75 pfennig per 'day. | -Sir lan Hamilton's departure .for the Dardanelles led to a very amusing mystery (writes the London correspondent of the Sydney Sun). Mr Winston Churchill disappeared on the same day that Sir lan started for Malta, Mrs Churchill asked where her volatile husband was, said that she had seen him get into the train j with Sir lan Hamilton, and that per- , haps he had gone to the Dardanelles. Rumour with a thousand tgiigues soon had London rilled with the whisper, "Churchill has gone to the Dardanelles." When he reappeared at the ' Admiralty at the end of three days, tho quidnuncs were dumbfounded. What Mr Churchill really did was to slip quietly away to France. Other Ministers have been very proud of themselves for going upon personallyconducted visits to the lines well out of'reach of shell-fire. That sort of quiet afternoon tea excursion does not appeal to the First Lord of the Admiralty. When he readied France ho shot'up to the front where the aviators were thickest, and spent tho greater part of two days aloft in an aeroplane,. hovering above the German lines, and acting as an army observer. Of every dozen men who can fly there is perhaps only one fitted to observe and report accurately upon what he has seen. Mr Churchill possesses this faculty of swift perception and true description, and there was no sign of amateurishness about his reports, which were put in like thoso of every other aviator. Having, enjoyed this novel holiday, he returned to the Admiralty.