SUBMARIN WARFARE.

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 March 1917, Page 3

SUBMARIN WARFARE.

DEFENSIVE MEASURES. KTATKMKXT HY ITALIAN MISISTKJi. fP.EUTKB'a TKLEQRAM.I ]{eeeived ihis (Uiv ;ii 1.55 p-m-HOME, Mar«'li 11In the Cliamber of Deputies llic Minister for Murine detailed the Allies' anti-submarine measures, tinning numerous places on the coast, the organisation of coastguards, barriers, and other defensive works. The depth of the seas precluded the employment of netsAs regards the methods of chasing submarines, two hundred small crafl were employed in the Otranto Channel for months. Numerous aeroplane squadrons and small airships were employed. Already over a thousand guns were used in arming merchantmen- Sixty per cent, of Italian ships were armed, and several hundred wireless apparatus were installed in ships. The system of signalling by wireless and aeroplanes was successful. The large number of sailings and arrivals showed that the measures were not in vain.

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TR E OTER'S TEUiGII AM. 1 Received this 4 day at 1-55 p.m LOX3")OX. March 11-

"Lloyds 'Xows' " Cork correspondeni states:—The ]3el»-ian steamer Torstad. from Buenos Ayios, was submarined at daylight- 'Thirteen were landed, including' an American. Two boats and thirty men are missing. The survivors'were thirty-six hours in a stormy sea and the fourth engineer died from exposure. The submarine refused to tow the boats, which ii shelled.