ON THE SEAS

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13927, 9 July 1917, Page 2

ON THE SEAS

HELP FOR SOLDIERS' DEPENv HANTS. ■tf -. ■- ME MACKENZIE'S SCHEME. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, July 5, ' , Sir Thomas Mackenzie, speaking at the Mansion House meeting, advocated a conference of managers of all funds assisting the dependants'of members of the Navy or the mercantile marine, in order to prevent overlapping; He recalled .that New Zealand had sent £IOO,OOO for the dependants of those killed in the Jutland battle, MINESWEEPER LOST.

FRENCH SUBMARINE TORPEDOED ' 'r (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) Received July 8, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 7. The Admiralty announces that a minesweeper in the Mediterranean has been milled and sunk. Ten are missing. (Australian and Renter). - Received July S, 5.5 p.m. LONDON, July 7. A FrPnch official report says: A submarine has been torpedoed ■Hid sunk by an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean aever.il of the officers "id crew were lost. Nine were saved.