ON THE SEAS.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13659, 30 August 1916, Page 3

ON THE SEAS.

GERMANY'S "TIN-FISH,"

THE FIFTIETH" CATCH.

WORK OF THE TRAWLERS.

(Australian and'N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 28.

Mr,. ..Alfred Noyes, writing in the Daily Chronicle, says: "Britain's trowing fleet, doing mine-sweeping and sub-marine-hunting, comprises three thousand vessels with crews totalling 100,000,' Nothing had been said about the fleet's way with submarines till the destruction of the fiftieth was quietly celebrated at a small, gathering in London. 'Everything was done in silence. The submarines went out and nevev returned; others went out perplexed by the mystery, and also did not return, An innocent line of trawlers had more nidilmares in store for German sub-

'marines than a fleet of battleships. Any submarine reported in home waters could bo enclosed in steel traps within twenty-live minutes, from which there was no escape. The writer saw a trap a 'hundred miles long' that could shift position and change shape at a signal.

GERMAN REPORT DENIED, NO-ENGAGEMENT IN NORTH SEA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 28. The Admiralty deny the Vossisehc Zeitung's statement that Dutch sailors saw a British destroyer in a sinking condition and abandoned on > Dogger Bank. There has been no engagement of any sort and no destroyer is missing.