SUBMARINE WARFARE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 February 1917, Page 7

SUBMARINE WARFARE.

CAPTURE. OF U BOATS.,

PRIZES OFFERED.

[AUSTRALIAN N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.]

Received .this day at 32.2(1 a.m. PARISy i’ebu.uary 20.

- The Naval Committee has ineach submarine destroyed or capriled the Government to aw'aid a prize of half a million francs for tured.

WOMEN AND CHJLOREN.

DEBARRED FROM DANGER

ZONE.

[AUSTRALIAN AND N.'Z, CABLE ASSOCIATION.]

Jlcceived this day at 9.45 a.m. MELBOURNE, This Davit is how announced that under no consideration will women and children he allowed to travel in the submarine danger zone. iLL-SUCCESS OF THE CAMPAIGN. V Ul! TU EII *EI 1E NCH TEST! MO NY. [AUSTRALIAN, AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.] ' Received this day at 10.5 a.m. PARIS, February -0. • JOS vessels daily -entered French ports laitl week. THE LI BOATS., PROVIDED WITH SAFETY APPLIANCES. [UNITED SERVICE TriiEGRAM.] Received this day at 12.20 a.m. LONDON.- February 20. The “Tagdisehc Rundschau'’ slates that the crews of the. IT boats are provided with divers’ safety appliajices, oxygen tubes, and Waproof refreshment flasks and safety waistcoats. When a sunken submarine touches the bottom a buoy is automatically released, rises to the surface; and sends out an S.O.S. call. AMERICA AND GERMANY. L.VBOUR ■ o lie AE ISATIotfS’ ACTION. COPENHAGEN, February 19. The “Yorwaerts” learns that the President of the American Labourites cabled the President of the German Labourites, on the 9th February, and urged that an endeavour be made to avert a rupture with America. The latter replied that they could only influence the Government if America persuaded Britain to abandon her starvation war.

AMERICA’S RIGHTS.

PLENARY POWERS FOP THE

PRESIDENT

Received this day at 1.15 pan. . NEW YORK, February 20. Mr, Lansing and the Attorney‘General attended a meeting of Hip Senate's Judiciary Committee to urge the adoption of a resolution permitting the President to use the 'army and navy to maintain American rights and enforce America’s obligations under the Law of Nations. AMERICA AND AUSTRIA. NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE. LONDON, February 19. The “Morning Post’s” Budapest correspondent states that negotiations between AustriaHungary and the United States continue. It is hoped that_ diplomatic relations will remain unbroken. Ji is understood Iliad Germany, as a result of Austrian pressure, is willing to exercise leniency in the Mediterranean by gT,(nti.jgl UomLissions ■ i.n detail, but not in principle. She will possibly agree to warn passengers ot steamers before sinking and will not molest American steamers in Hie Mediterranean which are not carrying contraband. ON A U BOAT. PHI SO NEKS’ EX PE HIEN GES. COPENHAGEN, Eebrnarv 19. The Thorn,scond’s captain narrates that wlien the - vessel was torpedoed he and his wife and six-year-old daughter were taken on Hie submarine, while, the crew wore placed in lifeboats and,eventually landed on the Irish coast'.' The captain, jus wife and daughter were eight days in the submarine, which sank two British steamers and a trawler. One of' the steamers, loaded with munitions, was sunk without warning. The . explosions were so sudden and violent that the submarine’was severely damaged, The crew thought that the cud was near, and immediately returned to Germany for repairs. Passing north of Ireland and Scotland they came to the surface’ on February 12 th near Heligoland, and the captain and his family were finally released. GERMAN MERCHANTMEN. THE FLEET. INCHEASING. ' AMSTERDAM, Eehrurv IU. The “Frankfurter Zeituug” states that since the Avar began, the Norddentscher Company has built ten steamers of a total of 70,000 tons ' and eight others ot a tonnage of 130,000 tpn's, . including two 35,000-ton-ners now building.’ 4