SUBMARINE PIRACY.
COPENHAGEN, June 14. Captain Amundsen, the Antarctic ex plorer, and many women and children were aboard the Norwegian steamer Iris bound from Newcastle to Bergen, when a submarine fired two torpedoes without i warning. The vessel escaped, j A submarine sank the steamer Hopei mount off Newcastle. Her captain and I three of the crew were wounded by shell j fire; the rest have landed at Barry. A submarine sank the French schooner Diamant off Pentien. The crew were saved. The captain states that the submarine appeared from behind a steamer, which was evidently attached to the operation. The submarine afterwards returned to the shelter of the steamer. AMSTERDAM, June 14. Lieutenant Hersing, commander of U2l, has been awarded the Order of Merit. STOCKHOLM, June 15. The Prize Court at Berlin, overruling the, Kiel Court, has decided to pay full : compensation for the seizure of the Swed- ; ish steamer Ellida, bound for Hull. Tire judgment is likely to form a precedent I upon which many neutrals’ claims will be based. GERMAN REPRISAL PRISONERS. THE HAGUE, June 15. Germany, through America, has agreed to treat the British officers who were imprisoned in a fortress (as a reprisal for the special treatment formerly meted out ito officers and men of submarines who | were captured by the British) as ordinary ' prisoners of war.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 17
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