The Blockade.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 396, 19 March 1915, Page 5

The Blockade.

British Retaliation Clear and Definite. [PRESS ASSOCIATION COPYRIGHT.] London, March 18. The Navy League considers that Great Britain’s retaliatory proposals are satisfactory, sober and moderate. Neutrals are receiving every consideration, and enemy’s property will receive the treatment which, considering their acts of piracy, neither Germany nor her friends have a right to expect. The navy’s programme is no wclear and, definite, and warships dealing with merchantmen are relieved from the legal technicalities hitherto involved in the process of search and examination. Paris, March 18. The papers urge that the blockade should be extended to Austria and Turkey. YANKEE SKIPPERS’ YARN. GERMAN SUBMARINES BUILDING AT THE RATE OF ONE A DAY. (Received ,19, 8.45 a.m.) Washington, March 18. The captain of an American steamer reports that on entering Bremen Haven the Germans confined the crew below to prevent their observation of naval preparations. They saw a flotilla 'of submarines larger than anything they had seen beforehand learned that the Germans were turning out one _ daily. BRITISH STEAMErTuNK. ' TWO OTHERS ESCAPE. Condon, March 18. Reuter’s Sluis correspondent states that the U2B stopped a British steamer to the leeward of the Naas lightship and placed bombs aboard, but failed to sink her. The sumbarine was Compelled to return, and sank the steamer after working an hour. The crew was landed. Submarines vainly pursued the British steamers Avocet and Lestris/to Dutch waters.