GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16638, 9 March 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

NEW GERMAN SUBMARINES. DISGUISING SITUATION. (Times and' Sydney Sim Services.) LONDON, March 7. The Daily Mail's correspondent at Copenhagen states that the new German submarines are fitted with an apparatus to make waves at a distance from the boat, so as to conceal her exact position. WHAT SCOTLAND HAS DONE. MORE THAN HER SHARE. SYDNEY, March 8. Colonel Burns (of the Burns, Philp Shipping Company), at a welcome tendered by the Highland Society, said that if the whole Empire had responded in the same degree as Scotland an army of five millions would have resulted. THE ARABIC CASE, GERMAN PERVERTED VERSION. 'LONDON, March 7. In a White Paper containing the AngloGerman correspondence through the American Ambassador (Mr Page), the German Government traverses Sir E. Grey's Note of December 14. The German Government maintains that the Arabic was sunk in self-defence, and declines to submit the case to a court composed of American naval ofnoers, as investigation Toy the German authorities is a sufficient guarantee of impartiality! Britain had met the demand for reparation in the Baralong case »with empty excuses, and had rendered herself rerponsible for a crime against the law of nations, and the principles of humanity. As Britain refuses reparation, Germany is obliged to retaliate. Sir E. Grey, on February 25, replied that the German version of the Arabic sinking was contrary to most trustworthy evidence.