STARTLING STORY FROM NEW YORK.

North Otago Times, Volume CV, Issue 13937, 21 July 1917, Page 5

STARTLING STORY FROM NEW YORK.

fi , 1 r OVER A IILLION AND A HALF TONS OF SHIPPING SUNK MONTHLY. NEW GERMAN CHANCELLOR TO CONTINUE '.V SUBMARINE POLICY. fßce fighting on west front. ' ( r"r~i * GERMANS ATTACK BRITISH AND FRENCH POSITIONS. i ASSAULTS REPULSED WITH HEAVY LOSSES. a • : U RUSSIAN DISTURBANCES HANDLED ~. FIRMLY. \ . -v . IfjU Otble—Pr«si Asjoclatlon—Copyright.) GRAVITY OF THE SUBMARINE MENACE. / SENSATIONAL "' STORY" PROM 1 NEW YORK. ■ .; ' . | ■ i" . I OVER A MILLION AND A-lIALF TONS OP SHIPPING i ! \_ ' ■ SUNK MONTHLY. I . "V' ; : ' i \ i \' I MESSAGE "PASSED BY BRITISH CENSOR." \ - ''• t 1 Y , ' ' and l\ew Zeaiaad CsbiiS Association.) NEW YORK, July ]f). The New York Tinfbs publishes sensational despatches from its < special correspondent, Charley Grasty, with displayed cross-page • 'headings marked "Passed by the British Censor." Mr Grasty says that American assistance is nrgcnlly needed to cope v.'ith submarines, Discussion in well-informed circles reveals disquieting conditions showing how serious the position would be in a few months if the destruction of shipping continued at the present rate. ' Mr Grasty adds that the loss of Allied shipping by submarines totalled 1,G00,000 tons monthly, or more thai; twice tie 'amount of the new construction.'" Changes in the Admiralty, says Mr Grasty, have brought out the fact thai at the present rate of construction and destruction, unless British commitments elsewhere are considerably curtailed, there will not be enough shipping at the end of a few months to feed England and Prance and maintain the armies. It is sheer waste of tijiie, declares Mr Grasty, to keep' American destroyers in American waters when the situation here is so critical. Every craft capable of operating against' the submarines should be sent . , to Europe at the earliest possible moment. ■ i. • NEW BRITISH MINE ZONE IN NORTH SEA. TO; . BIGHT. . (Renter's Telegrams.) LONDON, July 19. It is stated that the new British mine zone in the North Sea ■ has been specially i made to prevent enemy ships and submarines emerging from Heligoland Bight. , A slight modification of the limits is being considered, \vitli a' view to satisfying the Dutch representations. 1 *•</ ■ \ : —— rv' CREW OP ANGERS ARRIVE AT FOR?, SUBMARINED WHILE RESCUING CREW OF TORPEDOED. t , VESSEL. . ■ • • • - • '(Australian and New Zealand Cable Assodsllon.) ' VANCOUVER, July 19. ,• : The crew of the steamer Angers have arrived at an' Atlantic ' ■ port, and. are confident that the vessel was sunk by a submarine »' wh;lo rescuing the crew of 'the torpedoed American tanker Archbold. • ■ V. "" ACTIVITY IN THE BALTIC. 'RUSSIAN .DESTROYER SINKS GERMAN, SUBMARINE. ! <: i •»:'■■■ (Australian and New Zealand Cable association.) . Received' July 20, at 8.5 p.m. ' • ' PETROGRAD, July 19. v Bjkftiissiau /destroyer (Lovkyvricf). .The torpedoes -mi'ssed' the' dcwhich dropped bombs and -sank;t*he submarine, All the' 'drowned.