THE SUBMARINES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16992, 20 October 1915, Page 7

THE SUBMARINES.

BRITISH IN BALTIC. GERMANS BLOCKADED. "Times” and Sydney "Sun” Services. LONDON, October 18. Tho “Daily Mail” says:—“The Gormans are realising in the Baltic the meaning of a real blockade. Their navy is now boxed up in ports behind rets, hawsers and mines. The British achievements are remarkable because submarines reaching the Baltic must pass through a narrow, shallow stirait, obstructed at the southern end by mines, with Zeppelins constantly watching. Yet the navy has been equal to the task of showing who commands the sea. As Germany depends on Sweden for iron ore for fine steel, our submarine action is affecting the output of munitions.” THE AMIRAL HAMELIN. SHELLED BY SUBMARINE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PARIS, October 18. Tho French steamer Amiral Hamolin, 5051 tons, torpedoed in the Mediterranean, was not warned. The submarine fired forty shells, while the crew and passengers were embarking in tho boats. A French torpedo boat and a British hospital ship came to the rescue, and the submarine disappeared. H.M.S. ENCOUNTER. SINKS A SUBMARINE. (Received October 19, 10.55 p.m.) _ SYDNEY, October 19. A transport lias arrived with another batch of wounded soldiers. An officer alLard states that in August last, when en route from Alexandria. to Lemnos, H.M.S. Encounter sank an enemy submarine.