GERMANY'S SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13932, 14 July 1917, Page 6

GERMANY'S SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

- '>■>,■■■■■ ... LAST WEEK'S ITALIAN SHIPPING LOSSES. • 1 ' AUSTRALIA SERIOUSLY INCONVENIENCED BY THE ' ' 'SUBMARINE PERIL. ' ei" ran (Australian and New Zealand €aWa Aiioclation,) " ROME, July 12. The Italian shipping report for the week ending July Bth shows ' that 527 vessels arrived ard 435 departed. Two steamers and ten small sailing vessels we sunk, or'attacked, or escaped. (Australian and New Zcpnd Cable Association.; 1 ' ' /; MELBOURNE, July 13. In the House of Representatives, Mr Hughes, dealing with the shipping agreement, said that tile British Government provided that it would lift 600,000 bushels of wheat monthly, but owing to the submarines' activity during, June not one bushel was shipped. ' Unless a new outlet,were found by February thefe would be .nearly 6,000,000 tons of wll'eat in the country. (Australian and New Zealand'Cablo Association.) Received July 13; at 7.40 j/.m;". ■' ' """" 1 PARIS,v'July 12. The French dredger Jupiter, 'has been mined in the Channel. Eleven of the crew are missing.',