MISCELLANEOUS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2972, 21 June 1916, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

INCIDENTS AT SEA

Copenhagen, June 20. Two seaplanes ineffectually bombed a British submarine in the Cattegat, The submarine shot down one of the seaplanes. Paris, June 20. The patrol boat St. Jaques has been sunk. Seven seriously wounded were rescued. Nino are missing. Stockholm, June 20. A submarine, believed to be British, when northward of Falkenbcrg, torpedoed the steamer Ems, . from Christiana to Lubeck. The crew, landed. A Swedish patrol boat, observing another steamer approaching nearer the coast, steamed between the submarine and tho steamer, and fired a warning shot. The submarine disappeared. THE KING WITH THE FLEET. London, Juno 20. The King spent four days with the fleet, and saw all the ships engaged in the recent battle. His Majesty lirst visited the battle cruiser squifdron, which has been fully re-fitted. Some ships bear dents,' but the whole unit is ready to go anywhere at a moment's notice. The King next went to the base, where tho great striking force of the Grand FTeet lies moored in long lines. These include many recently commissioned ships. THE IRISH PROBLEM. Four men and three women, participators in the Dublin demonstration, were lined for assaulting the police. Rebel songs were found in tke accuseds' possession. The Times Parliamentary correspondent says there is an acute division of the Cabinet over the Irish proposals. A section, understood to be headed .-by tho Hon. Walter Long, is utterly opposed to Mr. Lloyd George's scheme, and suggests that'the Cabinet as a whole is not responsible for it. "(Received Jun© 21, IL3O a.m.; KITCHENER'S COMMENT. JdhadHiesburg, June 20. Sir Abe Bailey, in a speech at Krugeisdorf, said that before leaving England he asked Lord Kitchener how things were going, and Kitchener replied: Germany is in a much more serious position than jieople think, especially in tho interior. It reminds me of a prize-fighter, staggering and dazed. If our army gets ,what it wants wo will give . a, knockout