ON THE SEAS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 264, 24 October 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEAS.

the submarines. MORE NORWEGIANS SUNK. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] Christiania, Oct. 23. Three Norwegian steamers and three sailers were submarined and sunk. . The crews were usually given ten minutes to take to the boats. ’ Norwegian torpedo boats were active in rescuing them. THE DEUTSCHLAND’S VOYAGE. (Received 24, 11.20 a.m.) New York, Oct. 23. Commander Koenig; describing the Deutschland’s trip in a message to the “New York American,” says that early in the morning we saw British destroyers and ordered the engineer to submerge. The submarine dived so steep that it went down at an angle of 36 degrees, and dug her bows in the mud at the sea’s bottom. The bows held fast, the stern swinging violently back and forth. As the water was shallow we were afraid the stern would become visible The ship’s aft-tanks were quickly flooded, but her bows were so deep in the mud that she only returned to the horizontal slowly. We had much manoeuvring to do before the bows were released and the Deutschland continued her voyage. 300 ENEMY SUBS AT SEA. Stockholm, Oct. 23. A German submarine commander, when setting fire to the Swedish schooner Greta, boasted that 300 submarines were preventing traffic with England. THE WEEK-END TALLY. EIGHTEEN VESSELS SUNK. [AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSN.] (Received 24, 10.30 a.m.) ■ London, Oct. 23. The latest reports state that five Swedish, seven Norwegian and six British vessels were submarined and sunk during the week-end. TORPEDOED GERMAN CRUISER. fREUTER’S TELEGRAMS. I (Received 24, 11.20 a.m.) Amsterdam, Oct. 23. A semi-official Berlin report asserts the small cruiser Munchen (3200 tons), which was torpedoed by a British submarine returned to port slightly damaged. [A cable yesterday stated that a British submarine had torpedoed a German light cruiser of the Kolberg class (4280 tons) on Thursday. The latter vanished homeward in evident difficulties.]