SUBMARINE OPERATIONS

Southland Times, Issue 17965, 5 March 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE OPERATIONS

PUBLICATION OF NAMES OP TORPEDOED SKIPS (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) PARIS, March 3. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. Experience has shown that the publication of the names of torpedoed ships has been attended by serious drawbacks and the Minister of Marine in future will only issue results of the submarine war weekly. FEBRUARY’S SUBMARININOS LONDON, March 3. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. As far as are ascertainable February’s submarinings totalled: British, 121 ships 256,632 tons; Allied, ten' ships, 15,422 tons; neutrals, 50 ships 151,143 tons. Arrivals and departures to and from the United Kingdom up to the 25th February totalled 16,490.

REPLACING LOST SHIPS WHAT THE CUNARD LINE INTENDS NEW YORK, March 3. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. It is stated in shipping circles that the Cunard Line will spend £20,000,000 in the Atlantic - Pacific shipyards in order to build a great liner fleet to foil the submarine blockade and to replace ships as fast as they are sunk. SUBMARINE RESULTS GERMAN PAPERS CAUTIOUS AMSTERDAM, March 3. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. The German papers are significantly cautious in regard to expectations as to submarine results. The Koelnische Volk-Zeitung now says that a complete stoppage of shipping irrespective of the diminution of Imports by the Allies, will procure peace on Germany’s terms, if not starvation. But the Allies’ realisation that starvation is approaching will bring about a decision. The paper says that the Germans may be forced to send out the fleet.

THE NSW GERMAN SUBMARINES VIENNA, March 2. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. A message from Fremdenbiatt states that the new German submarines have a great radius and powerful armaments. Six cylindered, 1000 horse-power oil engines were used under the sea instead of batteries, and they can remain below indefinitely. All are fitted with minelayers. DEALING WITH THE MENACE ATHTERTfiAN REPORT OF WHAT TEE BRITISH ARE DOING NEW YORK, March 3, Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. Mr Frank Slmonds, correspondent for the New York Tribune, who has returned from London, in quoting the Admiralty figures, says that from February Ist to the 15th the British captured 25 submarines, two of which surrendered in one day, the crews having killed their officers.

NUMBER GERMAN SUBMARINES nr CREASED (The Times. ) LONDON, March 3. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. Herr Zimmerman told an interviewer that the number of submarines had been increased by five times their previous number. He expected to finish the war in the autumn.