SUBMARINES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16766, 7 August 1916, Page 5

SUBMARINES

TWO ITALIAN VESSELS LOST. Reuter's Telegrams. ROME, August 4. Official: Two Italian submarines, which left on a mission against enemy coasts, havo not returned, and they are considered as lost. GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK. BY BRITISH MERCHANTMAN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, August 4. Captain David Thompson, of the steamship Strathness, reports the sinking of a German submarine in the Mediterranean by gunfire. Some British gunners aboard fired in self-defence after a submarine ■ had launched a torpedo. TWO MORE VICTIMS. EITHER TO MINES OR SUBMARINES. CHRISTIANIA, August 5. (Recehed Aug. 6, at 5.5 p.m.) Lifebelt?, rafts, and wreckage that have come ashore on the Norwegian coast indicate that the British steamers Calypso and Aaro have been mined or sunk by , submarines. It is feared that the passengers and crew have been lost. • SEA OF MARMORA VISITED. TOWN BOMBARDED AND • DAMAGED. , ATHENS, August 5. ; (Recened Aug. 6, at 5.5 p.m.) J Constantinople advises that a submarine recently entered the Sea of Marmora and bombarded Gartal Feribik, an hour's journey from the capital, caucing serious damage.

GERMAN PRESS SUGGESTIONS. RESISTERS SHOULD BE HANGED. LONDON, August 5. (Received Aug. 6, at 5.5 p.m.) Tho newspapers quote suggestions bj the Cologne Gazette and tho Volke Zei tung that British captures who copy Cap tain Fryatt should be hanged instead oi being shot. AFTER THE WAR. TAXING ENEMY FOR RUTHLESS DESTRUCTION. LONDON. August 5. (Received Aug. 6, at 5.5 p.m.) The Imperial Maritime League has joined the movement for demanding thai peace conditions shall include taxing the enemy to an amount equal to the value of the shipping that is ruthlessly destroyed by tho enemy. ADDITIONAL VICTIMS. SEVEN MENTIONED. LONDON, August 6. (Received Aug. 6, at 11 p.m.) The crews of two schooners, a barge, and a coasting steamer, sunk by submarines, have been landed at Weymouth and Plymouth. Submarines elsewhere sink the Italian steamer Siena, the Greek steamer Triconpis, and the Rritis-h t-teamers Tottenham and Fa\ onian. SWEDISH VESSELS SUNK. ANOTHER BREACH OF FAITH. COPENHAGEN, August 6. (Received Aug. 6. at 11 p.m.) German submirines destroyed a Swedish steamer and schooner, timber laden, on route for England. The newspapers complain that Germany recently promised to spare timber ships, for which Sweden was permitted to export hundreds of horses to Germany.