HOW TO SERVE SUBMARINES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 11189, 3 March 1915, Page 5

HOW TO SERVE SUBMARINES.

RAMMED AT_FUIL SPEED, A LESSON FOR OTHER CAPTAINS. * London, March 3. The captain of the steamer ThoradiS reports that she struck and sank a German submarine off Beaohy Head on Sunday morning. The submarine fired a torpedo, which missed, and the steamer rammed the submarine at full speed.

FORCING OF THE DARDAN-

ELLES.

THB SHIPS PRESSNIG ON.

A FORECAST OF POSSESSIONS.

One of the Allies’ warships rounded the promontory at Gallipoli and bombarded the coast on the Gulf of Saros.

The Dardanelles are freed of mines for a distance of *l% miles. Turkish losses were 500 p. Petrograd,\ March 3. An inspired note in the Russkoe Slowe suggests that when the Dardanelles problem is settled the Suez Canal will become British property and the Baghdad railway converted into an international undertaking. BRITISH PREMIER’S SPEECH. HIS UNSHAKEN FAITH. BRITAIN’S REPLY TO PIRACY. London, March 3. Mr Asquith said the war was not always or every day a picturesque and spectacular affair, but the Government was never more confident in the will and power of the Allies to achieve an ultimate and durable victory. Nothing can shake our faith in the unbroken spirit of Belgium, the undefeated heroism of indomitable Servia, the tenacity and resource of Russia and France, who are holding far-flung lines until the hour for an irrestistible advance.

Kef erring to the blockade, lie said : We have to use some very plain language. The so-called blockade is not a surprise of tne war. It began with Germany’s cynical repudiation of a solemn treaty. The war has been carried on with the systematic violation of all practices whereby international agreements sought to regularise the clash of arms. Now Germany has organised an underwater campaign of piracy and pillage. We cannot sit still as thongb under the protection of the humanising usages of civilised warfare.”

Mr Asqnitb read a statement of the Allies’ policy which has been communicated to America and other nentrals. The Note explains that Germany’s declaration amounts to the claim that to torpedo at sight without regard to the safety of the crew or passengers any merchant vessel belonging to any flag. Hitherto, the sinking of prizes has been a questionable act' only resortable to in extraordinary circumstances. Germany’s new methods of submarine warfare are entirely outside the scope of international instruments regulating operations against commence. We are therefore driven to frame retaliatory measures to prevent commodities of any kind reaching living Germany. These measures will be enforced by Britain and France without risk to neutral ships and non-combatants lines with strict observance of tbe dictates of humanity. The Allies will therefor©' detain and take to port ships carrying goodsd presumed enemy destination, ownerainp, or origin.

Mr Asquith continued : This is our reply to the notice of a world blockade. “Contraband” and other technical terms do not occur in dealing with an. opponent who openly repudiated all the restraints of law and humanity. We are not going to allow our efforts to be strangled in a network of judicial niceties. If neutrals suffer, we regret it, but we remind them that we did not initiate this phase of tbe war, nor do we propose to assassinate their seamen and destroy their ships. If hardships are caused to the civil population in Germany we are not doing more than the first and greatest German Chancellor sanctioned. After dealing with the necessary industries for co operating with the lighting men, Mr Asquith said ;•*'Talk of peace at the present time is like the twittering of a sparrow amid the stress of a tempest which is shaking the foundations of the world. I only repeat the statement I made in the Guildhall in November regarding our never sheathing the sword until Belgium is safe and Prussian military domination has been wholly destroyed”

THE FOOD QUESTION.

GERMAN REPLY TO AMERICA.

Copenhagen, March 2. reply has been handed to the United States Am bassador in Berlin. It accepts President Wilson’s propositions conditionally on Great Britain doing the same,^ A RESTORATION SOCIETY. London, March 2. The Royal Agricultural Society is establishing a fund to restore devastated farm - lands in Belgium, Servia, and France. GERMAN SHORTAGE OF PETROL. -London, March 2. The driving of private • motor oars is prohibited in Germany. The object is to save tyres and gasoline. —Times and Sydney Shu Special Cables..

ON THE SWISS FRONTIER.

, Geneva, March 2.

In deference to. the Government’* wishes the French have removed a battery which had been placed close to the Swiss frontier. A treaty with Vienna prohibits fortifications within ten miles of Basle. Nevertheless the Germans maintain heavy 'fortifications, and continue to construct trenches within a mile of Basle.

WAR OVERSHADOWED;

PETTY INTERESTS ' TRIUMPHANT,

Loudon, March 1. The Times, nT a , leader, says a chequered budget of news from the industrial centres revet - Is a sea of labour troubles, all about money, a little more wages, little less profit, sordid enough at all times,- but the carrying on of them now is criminal and equally stupid and base. To these people the war appears to be something in the newspapers. The paper believes all employers employed wonld have settled their differences, avoiding cessation of work if they really appreciated the need;—-Times and Sydney Sun Special Cables.