ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16805, 15 March 1915, Page 7

ON THE HIGH SEAS.

PRINZ EITEL FRIEDRICH’S RAIDS.

SEVEN SHIPS SUNK.

Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, March 12.

The seven names posted at Lloyd’s were those of ships sunk by the armed cruised Print; Eitel Friedrich.

VANDALISM AND PIRACY.

AMERICAN COMMENT.

LONDON, March 13

American newspapers of all' classes savagely comment on the sinking of the William P. Frye as vandalism and piracy, and on the sublime impudence of the pirate in entering an' American port.

SINKING OF AMERICAN SHIP.

THE BRITISH VIEW. (Received March 14, 5.5 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, March 13. It has been officially' established that the "William P. Frye carried only wheat. The authorities state tliat the fact that the cargo was sold in transit to a British firm did not alter the necessity of taking the ship to iKirt for adjudication. . , _ _ . The British view is tliat if the United States Government suffers foodstuffs bound for England to be sunk it can hardly' protest against the Allies’ prohibition against. Germany.

NORWEGIAN STEAMER SEIZED. (Received March 14, 4 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, March 13. A German cruiser seised in the Baltic the Norwegian steamer Brvssel, laden with oil from America to Stockholm. The British previously had examined and released the vessel, being satisfied with the genuineness of 11,e destination of the cargo.

SUNK OR CAPTURED. AN ADMIRALTY STATEMENT. .(Received March 15, 12.15 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. Tire Admiralty announces that from the beginning of the war to February 7, seventy-three British merchantmen were sunk or captured, of which number eleven were mined and eleven destroyed by submarines. Forty-six fishing ’ vessels were captured or sunk. Only one fishing boat has keen mined since the blockade.

THE KARLSRUHE’S ESCAPE. LONDON, March 13. A released prisoner lately aboaril tlie Karlsruhe heard that when the Glasgow ceased chasing her she only had five tons of coal aboard.

SWEDISH STEAMER MINED. LONDON, March 14

A steamer, believed to be Swedish, was mined and sunk off Scarborough. Two of the crew were killed. The rest were picked up.

RAIDS IN SOUTH AMERICAN WATERS. TWO STEAMERS SUNK. (Received March 15, 1.30 a.m.) SANTIAGO DE CHILE. March 13. The Dresden sank the Conway Castle. Hie crew lias arrived at Valparaiso. BUENOS AIRES, March 13, Hie Kronprius Wilhelm, sank the Froncji steamer Guateloupe off Fernando Noronha.