THE NAVAL WAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17815, 13 June 1918, Page 6

THE NAVAL WAR.

ITALIAN EXPLOIT. fORPEDO-BOATS HIT AUSTRIAN BATTLESHIP. » *ncl N Z. Cable Association and Renter. (Received June 13, 12-20 a.m.) ROME, Juno 12. An Italian official message says :• Two Italian torpedo-boats at dawn on Monday, near the Dalmatian Isles, attacked an Austrian naval division consisting of two battleships of the Viribus Unitis type, protected by ten destroy- 1 orsr. Our torpedo-boats boldly passed the line of destroyers and hit the leading battleship with one of their torpedoes- Chased by the destroyers, they returned safely to the base, after badly damaging mi enemy destroyer. ' • (The Viribus Onitis, 20,000 tons, carry twelve 12in guns. This class reE resents Austria's most formidable attleships.) NAVAL BATTLE EXPECTED. GERMAN OFFICERS RECALLED. Routers Tele-gram*. (Received June 13, 12.20 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Juno 11. Official Swiss dispatches state that Germany is preparing a big. naval off enaive. Orders have been given to keep the whole fleet in readiness. Officers of high rank have been hurriedly recalled from Switzerland. The "Hamburger Post" interviewed Admiral von Tirpitz. who said that Germany, was in a position to measure herself with the English fleet. After the land forces had pushed the French and English back to the other side of Paris it would be the Kaiser's turn to drive the English off the stas. AMERICAN COAST RAID. CREWS FIGHT FOR LIFE. NEW YORK, Juno 11. Captain Mackcnrie' and sixteen of the crew of the Pinar del Rio fought rough weather for twelve hon™ 'without food or water, in a small, leaking boat., which, when picked up, was 'in a,sinking condition, with water -Dearly up to the gunwales. J The Inst flnre attracted the attention of the rescuers. (The American steamer Pinnr do! Rio. of 2500 ton 3, was sunk on June 8 , One. bo-** renoV'l the Virginian coast, but the captain's boat was picKeJ up by a steamer.) NEW YORK. June 11. Survivors taom the Pinar del Bio state tint a U-bont signalled to the mother shio, "Follow me." Thrn both • hnstc cd-awny. Thr> mother ship had a f'sinslo funnel amfdships, and the submarine had two 6ln gunsWASHINGTON, Juno 11. The steamer Patria landed twelve : members of the crew of the stf-mer* New Sweden, which was submarined and eunk in the Mediterranean. (Received Juno 12, 9.35 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 11. A steamer which has arrived reports that she sighted a U-boat on Monday evening 250 miles off the Jersey coast A LINER'S EXPERIENCES. (Received June 12. 5 6 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 11. Tho captain of a Transatlantic liner reported on Juno 1 that a U-boat appeared at a short distance. The liner attempted to ram and parsed over the Submarine's Btern. Gunners on the liner dropped a depth bomb. The liner carried 176 passengers,. who were at dinner, but.they were not allowed on the decks. On June 2 a U-boat, disguised as a fishing boat, close bofore it was discovered. The liner changed her course and attempted to ram, but missed by six feet. The vessels drew apart and the liner's guns ripped away the conning tower. The Urboab disappeared. Two hours later the convoy signalled that a U-boat had been seen. She raced in the direction of it and dropped depth charges where the submarine had submerged. LINER SINKS U-BOAT. DEPTH CHARGE ACTS. NEW YORK, Juno 11. A Trans-Atlantio liner sank a Üboat with a depth charge, in European waters. She also hit the conning tower of another. BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK. BOUND FOR AMERICA. (Received June 12. 5 5 p.m.) NEW YORK. June 11. Cabled advices state that the British transport Ausonia, bound to America, was torpedoed. Ninety of the crew landed at a British port. Forty are missing. RUSSIAN AFFAIRS. APPEAL TO ALLIES. i EMISSARY IN AMERICA. VANCOUVER, June 11. M. Konovalov, ex-Russian Minister of Commerce in the Keronsky Cabinet, hag arrived here, en route to Washington, London and Paris, to make an effort to induce the Allies to intervene in Siberia and prevent Russia from passing utterly under German domination. WASHINGTON, Jane 11. Russian officials say that with the ar- . rival of Konovalov, Vice-Premier under M. Kerensky, there will be a speedy decision as to what the Allies shall take to help Russia against Germany. M. Konovalov has arrived at Seattle, and will probably see President Wilson. RAILWAY SPECIALISTS FROM AMERICA. MOSCOW. June 11. The arrival of several hundred American specialists is expected at Vologda to part.cipate in a special conference to reorganise the whole of the Russian railways. CADET PARTY'S APPEAL. (Received June 12, 11.25 p.m.) WASHLNGTON, June 11. The Russian Embassy has published a resolution by the Cadet Party declaring that it does not recognise the Brest Litovsk treaty and is making an appeal to the Allies for aid. The resolution states: —"We can assure, in the most (conclusive manner, that information picturing the Russian democracy as disapproving of _ the Allies is false. If Buch information reached the President of the United States it must have originated in Bolshevik sources. The Bolsheviks in no way represent Russia. If an Allied military expedition is sent \% is imperative that the Russian people shall be assured that Russian rights will not bo violated and that the expedition will be. under Inter..national control."

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INTERNAL TROUBLES. ON THE SIBERIAN RAILWAY. Boutere Telegrams. (Received June 12, 10.20 p-m.) AMSTERDAM, June 111 Advices from Kiev 6tate that 15 ; 000 Czechs and Slovaks in the Chelyabinsk region occupied a part of the Siberian railway and captu ed munitions. Soviet troops evacuated Chelyabinsk and concentrated ner Slatonst, where they defeated the Czechs. Other Czech forces are near Pamara. MARTIAL LAW AT MOSCOW. DUE TO COUNTER-REVOLUTION PLOTS. (Received June 12, 9.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 11. The State Department advices from Russ'a sta e that Moscow is under martial law following on the discovery of counter-revolutionary plots.