GREW OF TRAWLERS TAKEN ABOARD SUBMARINE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15885, 5 April 1915, Page 5

GREW OF TRAWLERS TAKEN ABOARD SUBMARINE.

NOB'S CARCO ICNITEIi BV GERMAN'S.

COMMANDER PLEADS THE DECLARATION OF LONDON. Hoicivod A !■:•:: 4, 730 p r.i ) London", April 3. The .Tr.S"r! and the Chi xinia were fishing 40 miles from the. mouth of the Tyne. The crews were taken aboard the I 10, and the trawlers were then .Mink. Bo.its from the submarine transferred the crews to the trawler Rhodesia, which hoisted the British Hag. The Nellie was sunk with gunfire. The crew, who took to the ship s boats, were picked up in an exhausted state three hours later. The I'lo stopped the \or, which was carrying a cargo of timber to Hull, on Wednesday. The (iermans ignited the cargo. The (ierman commander handed the captain a certificate that he had sunk the ship under the Declaration of London. The Nor was sighted on Friday still burning. The Dutch collier Schieland struck a mine and foundered near the Huinber. One of the crew was blown to pieces. Four were injured, and s"ven are missing. At the c liferenee ..f maiititne P'Wirs held in London in 1908-1900 the 1),., hirati'Hi mI I.mikli wV.h its in--clifii ati' n■ I the law of contraband and rights of seizure ami search, was ail pled l>y tin- delegates for submission to their respective Imi ei I'inents. In the Hi ltisii Legislature the House of Lords rejected the lIHMM.II' "hen 111-m:111<1 to them liv the limine of Commons. The ,\..r "a*- a wooden harqiie of 544 tuns, limit in 1873 at Trondhjein. She was registered at the pi.it of Fredr ikstad. The N'luelanil was a steel screw steamer of 1106 tuns, built in 1909 at Rotterdam. She was owned liv the Scheepvaart en Steeukulen Maat-s, and her port of registry was Rotterdam.