SUBMARINE EXPLOITS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 5 July 1915, Page 6

SUBMARINE EXPLOITS.

DESCRIBED BY GERMAN COMMANDER. AMSTERDAM, July_ 3TL'e Hungarian newspapers interviewed Hersing at Constantinople. The Commander of the German submarine said that he had covered, 'five thousand miles a month. He left Wilhelmshafen on 25th' April and travelled -mostly on the surface. He saw not a single British warfehip to Gilbraltar. where he noticed a British destroyer . He waited till nightfall and then ’dived and passed on. On the day of his arrival in the Aegean he sank the Triumph and dived. As a British destroyer approached it mssed oyer tJ.'e submarine. Wer- o?countered the Majestic saw through the periscope the crew prep-nlng to lunch, and liesitn--led her but duty triumphing over sentiment he, torpedoed her am 1 U’lved. ' .... p. ii!i tin- 'l’rinraph and the Majestic were protected bv nets. LONDON, July 3, Aecording 10 Lc Temps Vou Muller commander of the Goeben, has been recalled to Berlin owing- to the failure of his las; attempt to destroy .Russian ports on the Black Sea. NEW ZEALAND WOUNDED. ARRIVAL AT FREMANTLE. FREMANTLE, July 4. A steamer .unexpectedly arrived Imm the Dardanelles cu route to New Zealand, conveying thirteen officers and 2GB men sick and wounded. The majority participated in the landing at Gaba Tope, and show visible signs of contact with the enemy. Their general characteristic is cheerfulness. Major Mackenzie, Captains Mitchell and Withers, and eight Australian nurses, on loan to New Zealand, arc also aboard.