THE SUBMARINES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 144, 17 June 1918, Page 4

THE SUBMARINES

SINKING- OF THE EON I NOUNREGENTES.

(Australian andN.Z. Cable Association' and'Reuter.)

" LONDON, June 16. The Admiralty reports:- The arc* within five miles of the P° sltl °" £ which the Koningin Regentes wag sun« has been carefully searched, and no mines were found. „ /-.„„„,„„ We swept np nine new German mines between Juno 2ikl aTid 7th in the track used only by Dutch vessels employed in' the- repatriation pf Jintish and German prisoners, and wmem was by the British _and. fierman These mine* were not within 50 miles of the position in which, $> Koningin Regentes was sunk. . ~ It is clear.that the mines were lam to catch repatriation vessels on their passage west, and that the submarine which laid * them- remained on the route to siqk..shfr>s on the eastern journey, if, as proved to-be the case, they had not been already sunk with British repatriation prisoners aboard while on the way to Boston. It ifl remarkable that on this occasion tho num'ber of prisoners repatriated was exceptionally small, bcrny only 67, and of these none were ut« board the Koningin Regentes.

SWEDISH, STEAMER SUNK WITH , /OUT AVARNING.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Associa'

STOCKHOLM, Jun e jl<

The Swedish steamer DoTa was to' pedoed without warning- Nine of t-1 crew were killed. .

BADGES FOR TORPEDOE' SEAMEN.

Australian and NHS. 'uablo Associa'.'.<»

and Reuter.)

LONDON, June 15

The Board of Trad e announces tho award of torpedo 'badges to British mercantile seafarers who were serv--vng on a vessel which was torpedoed or minecl if they thereafter complete a further voyage on a British vessel, with a bar- for every time they are again torpe.doed or mined, five bare, being exchangeable for a. five-pointed star.