FOUR MORE VESSELS TORPEDOED.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13791, 11 June 1915, Page 5

FOUR MORE VESSELS TORPEDOED.

GERMAN SUBMARINE SUNK

THE CREW 7 CAPTURED.

TREATMENT OF SUBMARINE

PRISONERS.

London, June 9

Two trawlers and a French barquentine were torpedoed yesterday. The crews were saved.

The British collier Lady Salisbury was lorpedocd off Harwich without warning. The crew were saved. Mr. Baliour, First Lord of the Admiralty, speaking in the House of Commons, said that a German submarine had been sunk, and six officers and 21 of tho crow taken prisoner.

Mr. Balfour made a statement regarding the treatment of submarine prisoners. They were making arrangements whereby their treatment would he identical with that of other prisoners. This did net indicate a change of opinion as to the character of the, acts in which the prisoners were concerned. Their practices were not merely a flagrant contradiction of the laws of war, but were most brutal. It must be remembered, however, that attacks en defenceless vessels were not the oily violations of tlie laws of humanity of which the Germans were guilty; \ The Government, therefore, was of opinion that the submarine^ problem could ret bo treated in isolation, arid the general question of personal responsibility would be reserved until the end of the war.