SUBMARINE WAR.

Otago Witness, Issue 3239, 12 April 1916, Page 18

SUBMARINE WAR.

SURVIVORS' SUFFERINGS

LONDON, April 5

The remainder of the Bengairn's crew have landed. They spent three days and nights in open boats, suffering intense cold and being exhausted when they reached land.

The British steamer Bendew (3681 tons) has been sunk. A fireman was lost, but the rest of the crew have landed. The Norwegian steamer Arena (1019 tons) has been torpedoed in the North Sea.

A German submarine torpedoed and sank the Clan Campbell (5890 tons—launched in 1914) in the Mediterranean Sea without warning. The crew were saved. An Austrian submarine sank the John Pritchard (a schooner of 118 tons) in the Mediterranean Sea.

A submarine bombed and torpedoed the Norwegian sailing vessel Elis Helena in the North Sea, but she was not sunk. The crew were saved.

APPEAL TO PRESIDENT WILSON PARIS, April 5.

The American Chamber of Commerce has cabled to President Wilson: " Germany, in defiance of the opinions of mankind and in violation of every principle of humanity, like an assassin at night, has treacherously and without notice again struck down unarmed merchant passenger ships, sending scores of helpless men, women, and children to their doom. On behalf of humanity we demand that this intolerable situation shall cease. On be-

half of our murdered and maimed fellowcitizens aboard the Englishman and Sussex we protest aga'nst the continuance of diplomatic relations with a Government whose blood madness, ferocity, and lawlessness have brought to itself the execration of the whole of the civilised world.