U BOAT PESTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11632, 6 September 1918, Page 8

U BOAT PESTS.

PROOF OF SINKINGS, ADMIRALTY CLAIMS TO HAVE SUNK 150. Australoid N.Z. Cade Association. It|||eived Sept. 6, ’l3 'toon. London, Sept. 5. The Admiralty announces that although it does not intend to adopt the practice of giving proof of official utterances of 'Ministers, it is thought desirable _ names of commanding officers of 150 German submarines which have been disposed of in order to substantiate to the world the statement by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on the 7th of August, and denied in German papers At least 150 of these ocean pests have been destroyed. Records show 11G from 150 commanders are dead, 27 are prisoners, and six interned; while only one succeeded in returning to Germany after his submarine had been sunk. The dead include commanders who torpedoed the Red Cross Channel steamer busses, the Arabic, the Lusitania and the Belgian. Prince. Tne submarine which sank the Lusitania was lost on the Danish coast‘Tß months Mater, but tiie commander survived to bring - disaster to another submarine, which was lost with all hands in September, 1917. The Admiralty carefully hies the names of officers guilty of particularly wanton outrages, and special endeavours are made to swiftly terminate their careers.