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Southland Times, Issue 17470, 26 March 1915, Page 6

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REMUBRA’S NARROW ESCAPE OFT SOUTS AMEBIC AN COAST (By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright) LONDON. March 25. Received March 26, 12,30 n-tn. The Kcniuera reports that when oft the South American coast she sighted a tramp steamer and heard wireless signals. Shortly afterwards a large steamer approached at high speed, and thinking that It Was tho Kronprlnz Wilhelm the Remuera sent a wireless message to a British cruiser which was in the vicinity and the stranger tied. OEBUAHT'S HEW SUBMARINE 1000 TONS DISPLACEMENT LONDON, March 25. The Bntavier's captor, the German submarine U36, Is of the latest typo with about 1000 tons displacement. Tho Eastbourne explosion has not been •xplalned. I. IT TEE MSN AND A BIG CAUSE WARNING BE LLOYD GEOBQE LONDON,. March 25. Mr Lloyd George, writing to a prominent advocate of tho Welsh Church Disestablishment BUI, asks: "Will nothing but disaster teach us not to manufacture quarrels over matters of secondary concern whilst the fate of freedom Is being settled on the battlefield.” The Chancellor hopes that the leaders of Welsh opinion will not prove themselves to be very small men in a very big situation. SOVTB AFRICA THE INDEMNITY BILL COST OP WAS TO THE UNION CAPETOWN. March 25. During the committee stages of the indemnity Bill Mr Smuts moved to eliminate tho death sentence in connection With the rebellion. He hoped tho country would respond to the Government’s policy and allow bygores to bo bygones. Mr Smart supported the amendment with tho reservation that It should not apply to tho case of the rebel Marltz. Tho Hertzog party gratefully supported the amendment, and it was carried unanimously. Tho House voted six and three-quarter millions for war expenses to March 31. THE ANTWERP A IB BAZD • PUSILADE PBOM THE TOWN 10MBS ON THE SUBMARINES A SUCCESSFUL SOBTZB LONDON. March 25. Received March 26, 1.10 a.m. When tho British airmen were sighted A fire opened from all parts of Antwerp, the noise being terrific. The whole of the population watched the aviators, who kept an unswerving course. Many shrapnel shells hurst below them Without damage. Each aeroplane swooped down within 100 yards of tho small dock at Hoboken, their bombs completely destroying one submarine and seriously damaging another. The former was ingeniously concealed under a specially built deck and superstructure of the steamboat Venice. PALE OP PRZEMYBL HUNGARIANS DOWNHEARTED A GENERAL’S STATEMENT MERELY AN EPISODE ZF AUSTRIA WINS CARPATHIAN BATTLE LONDON, March 25. Tho fall of Przemyal has greatly depressed the Hungarians. General von Schoenich, late Minister of War, states that everything now depends upon tho tremendous battle raging In the Carpathians. He says: "if wo are successful then the capture of Przemysl is merely an episode." GITS GETS BOMBS AVIATION GROUND ATTACKED AMSTERDAM, March 25. The Allied airmen bombed the Gits aviation ground, near Roulers. Some soldiers were wounded and sheds damaged. Airmen’s bombs killed and wounded a Humber of soldiers near Bruges. GERMAN SQUADRON BOMBARD COASTAL VILLAGES ON THE BALTIC. PETROGRAD. March 25. bfiiciai: A German squadron consisting of seven battleships and twenty-eight torpedo boats cruised near Polangen (on the Baltic Sea), on Tuesday, and fired on the coastal villages.