GERMAN SUBMARINE CAUGHT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 20 March 1919, Page 5

GERMAN SUBMARINE CAUGHT.

SOUTH AFRICA

AND STATE-

OWNED SHIPS,

LONDON, March 18. French gunboats setized an escaping German U-boat thirty-nine miles off Ferrol.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

CAPETOWN, March 18. In the Assembly, replying to a Labor motion in favor of the Government securing its own fleet of ships, Mr Burton said the Government had considered the advisableness, but the resulfrwas not encouraging. The question was not within the range of practical politics. The Australian precedent was not a good one. Whatever might be thought of the Australian venture in war, the problem of State-owned ships in peace time was entirely out of the question.— Reuter.