AIR AND WATER.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 24 October 1916, Page 5

AIR AND WATER.

NORWAY'S NEUTRALITY

A GERMAN OBJECTION

HIGH-HANDED PROCEEDINGS IN

BALTIC

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 22. Germany has presented a Note to Norway protesting against the prohibition regarding submarines. The contents or the Note have not been revealed, but the Norwegian Aftenposten's correspondent interviewed Herr Zimmerman, the German Foreign "Under-Secretary, who said the Note was -serious,- and that Norway's conduct cdnSieted with the Hague convention concerning the simplest demands of neutrality. Meanwhile, submarines continue their operations off the Norwegian coasts.

CHRISTIANIA, Oct. 22. Three Norwegian steamers and three sailers have been submarined and sunk. The crews were usually given ten minutes to take to the boats. Norwegian torpedoers were active rescuing the crews.

vSTOCKHOLM, Oct. 23. A German submarine commarder, when setting fire to the Swedish schooner Greta, boasted tha^. three hundred submarines were preventing traffic with England.