SUBMARINISM.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14861, 7 September 1918, Page 5

SUBMARINISM.

DESTRUCTION OF U-BOATS.

AT LEAST 150 DISPOSED OP,

AN ADMIRALTY STATEMENT,

LTJSITANIA MURDERER DEAD

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

and Reuter.)

London, Sspt, 5

The Admiralty announces that although It is not intended to adopt the practice of giving proof of official utterances of Ministers, it is thought desirable to give the names of the 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 August 7th, and denied in the German papers, that at lea«t 150 of these ocean pests' have

been destroyed,

The records show that at lea.st 116 out of 150 commanders are dead, and 27 taken prisoner. Six had been interned^ while one succeeded in returning to Germany after the had sunk. The dead incljdo the commanders who torpedoed the cross-Chan-nel steamer Sussex and the Arabic, Lusitania and Belgian Prince.

The submarine which sank the Lusitania. was lostl on the Danish coast eighteen months later, but the commander survived to bring disaster to another submarine, which was lost with all hands in September, 1917.

The Admiralty carefully files the names of the officers guilty of particularly wanton outrages, and special <^ndvavGurs are made to swiftly-terminate

their careers