ON THE HIGH SEAS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 17030, 3 December 1915, Page 7

ON THE HIGH SEAS.

THE BALTIC BLOCKADE. BRITISH SUBMARINES STOP , TRADE. GERMANS PANIC-STRICKEN. Bv Telegraph—Pres? Association —Copyright. NEW YORK, December 1. Tho “Evening Posts’ Stockholm correspondent says that Great Britain’s blockade in the Baltic is thoroughly effective, German steamers being afraid to come out. Nineteen German .steamers have already been torpedoed or driven ashore, and others are mi-sing. The arrival'of British submarines has encouraged Russian submarines to develop greater audacity and activity. German crews are panic-stricken, and even armed trawlers, shooting at sight, sunk at least one Swedish subnninno in mistake for a British submarine.

SUNK IN MEDITERRANEAN. (Received December 2, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. December 2. The British steamer Maliche was sunk in the Mediterranean. The crew has reached Malta. A GIRL’S HEROISM. ADRIFT IN OPEN BOAT. LONDON, December 1. Mr Martin Donohoe tells a thrilling story of the heroism of an eight-year-old girl passenger, on the steamer Bosnia, submarined near Candia. She was in a boat adrift for four days, buffeted by a fftrious wind, and an angry sea, with two brothers, three and two years of age. They had been separated from their parents, who were in another boat, and were scantily clad, but the girl’s courage never wavered. She cheered the sailors and clasped her little brothers in her arms to impart warmth to them. On the third day the supplies of food and water were finished, and though land was sighted the crew were too exhausted to reach the shore. The girl exhorted them to make further efforts, and herself helped with the oars. . To add to the horrors, an Italian passenger went mad, slashed an artery in his arm and sought to attack his companions. After a desperate struggle he was finally overpowered. Later the wind dropped, and the boat reached Mikros, on the island of Crete.