GERMANY'S SUBMARINE MENACE.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 13975, 8 September 1917, Page 5

GERMANY'S SUBMARINE MENACE.

■ ' • )\ NO POSSIBLE: PROSPECT OP ULTIMATE SUCCESS. I' ' "I ' - COMBINED.: ANGLO-AMERICAN OFFENSIVE SOON IN FULL'BLAST;'' * ; . ''' " : ' (Iteutcr's Tclegrnms.) : " LONDON, September G, ■ A high naval authority states that thejncrcases in.the submarine sinkings are mainly due to flukes. Though Germany has put all'her strength into her submarines and is building larger vessels,-there is iio prospect of eventual success in the time allowed for America's help, as this gives the time timit. Besides the British' offensive measures arc in full blast ahead. : ;

GERMANY'S NEW SCHEME OF MINE-LAYING. r ■< BRITISH LABOUR DETERMINED TO PUNISH; GERMAN CRIMINALS. ' (Australian and New Zealand Cable Association.) • COPENHAGEN, September 5. One hundred mines-and much wreckage have been washed up at Jutland. The Germans are scattering .a.new kind.of floating, mine, consisting of a small bomb, which *caii only bo' sighted witii difficulty, and. explodes on the slightest contact. The survivors, of four trawlers describe their methods. They work in pairs, with a-great steel net between each for the purpose of .breaking the .British Minefield.. ■' Two submarines accbmpanied the steamer slowly as the mines'were removed, and several submarines at various times thus traversed the minefield. • ' • (Australian and New Zealand Calilo Association.) • LONDON; September G " The Labour Congress at Blackpool referred lite question of air defence to the General Purposes Committee. The. Congress unanimously denounced Germany's submarine barbarities. Mr Havelock "Wilson said that the seamen had decided to sec, after the war, that the foul acts of the Germans would be punished, whatever the Governments might do, and every firimc hereafter would be recorded for punishment.

The Congress then welcomed the president of the mining sec- [ lion of the American convention of Labour, who, on behalf of the ! United States, said they were determined that Prussianism and all it represented should be consigned to everlasting perdition. I IF ""BUILDING PROGRAMME ENLARGED. HGAV.'I'iR LOOSES- BY' SUBMARINES '•'MST WEEK, - ..v: : (Australia!) anil Now Zealand CnMc Associalioii.) ;*a * - PARIS, September (i, , The Minister of Mercantile Marine has planned to build during I mtrrent year tlu-'ice the pre-war tonnage of Mercantile ships. ' (Australian'ami New Zoalimd Cable Association,) 1 i f LONDON, September G. In (lie week ending September 2nd the French arrivals totalled 828 and the sailings 743. The Sinkings were three over and nine under IGOO tons. One steamer was; unsuccessfully attacked. >

BATTLE BETWEEN ARMED LINERS AND U-BOATS. AMERICAN PAPER'S INTERESTING REPORT: ;V '' ' (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received S ; at 2.5 a.m. r ' . i NEW YORK, September H). The Tribune p»p*rls [list four merchant ships and thi'ce; : U-boats were stink iu a battle 'tWH), twenty-two merchantmen an v cl seycit U-boats'. ' ■'