THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145755, 14 February 1917, Page 3

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

A BIG LINER CAUGHT < MONDAY’S TOTAL 7700 TONS. (Received Feb. 14, 9,20 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. The White Star liner Afrie (12,000 tons) has been submarined. Seventeen of the crew are missing. The British steamer Ada has been sunk. .Monday’s lota! losses were 7700 tons. AUSTRALIAN TRANSPORT SUNK. IN THE ENGLISH C HANNEL. (Received Eeh, 14, 10.15 a.m.) MEL.MOURNE, Eeh, 14. 1 The Navy Department announces! ihat an Australian transport has been »unk in the English Channel. There are no details. The department is of opinion that the vessel was returning to Australia. ANNOYANCE IN GERMANY. AT THE FLOUTING OK THE BLOCKADE. (Received Fob, 14, 9.15 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Feb. 13. Tho departure of two American merchant steamers for the blockade zone has caused a sensation. Berlin newspapers hold the American Government responsible. SENSATION IN BERLIN. AT AMERICAN CHALLENGE. (Received Feb. 14, 12.15 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, Feb. 13. The statement that two United States ships had sailed for Bordeaux caused a .sensation in Berlin. The Vossisehe Zeitung states that America will be responsible for the consequences. GERMAN ORGANISATION. FOR BUILDING SUBMARINES. (Received Fob. I*l, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 13. A well-informed export says that Germany prepared for super-trightful-ness by standardising the submarine. Hundreds of factories specialised _ m single parts, which were sent to Kiel, where skiliefi staffs bolted them _ together. The crews arc rapidly trained by experts in training schools. The living conditions- in the IT boats have improved. They are double hulled and fitted with net-shearing apparatus; they carry guns equal to those of destroyers. STORY OF GERMAN NAVAL BASE. / AT MOUTH OF AMAZON. (Received Feb. 14, 9.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, Fob. 13. It is stated that a German naval base and coaling station is operating on an island at the mouth of the Amazon. It supplies German raiders and also has a big wireless plant. GERMANY HEDGING A LITTLE. ABOUT NEUTRAL VESSELS. LONDON, Feb. 13. A Berlin correspondent states that Germany has instructed the commanders of submarines not to sink neutrals, especially Americans, without warning, whenever possible, but eases must arise where American vessels would be sunk, or Americans aboard neutral ships would be involved in a catastrophe. Germany does not intend to depart from the submarine policy lately proclaimed. German experts believe that if they can sink a million British tons monthly, besides deterring three million of neutral tonnage, they will force Britain to consider peace. G ER.M ANV’S NEW ALLY. NEW YORK, Feb, 12. President Carranza, of Mexico, is issuing a communication designed to shorten tho war, urging neutrals not to send supplies, including munitions, to any belligerents. This is generally interpreted as a proGerman move in order to bring pressure to bear on the United States. MORE GERMAN EXCUSES. BERLIN, Feb. 12. Herr Zimmerman has announced that the American sailors seized by a raider and put aboard the Yarrowdale will be held in German prisons until Germany gets official information as to tho fate of the German crews held in American porta. A NOTE FROM BRAZIL. LONDON. Feb. 13. Brazil’s reply to the German submarine Note declines to accept tho blockade as being effective or regular, and holds Germany responsible if BrazilI lan interests are.affected.

SIR EDWARD CARSON. ON THE BRITISH FLEET. HARD AT WORK EVERYWHERE. (Received Fob.. 14, 12.15 pan.) PARIS. Fob. 13. Tho Petit Parisian publishes an interview with Sir Edward Carson, First Lord of the Admiralty. Sir Edward stated that the British navy was übiquitous. It was awaiting the enemy in, the North Sea and on the coasts of Brazil. West Africa and the Cameroons. It was helping the French at Salonika, and was in East Africa. 11 was with tho Italians in the Adriatic, with the Russians at Archangel, and also strictly blockading Germany. The Germans were wild with rage and reduced to the direst necessity and would not hesitate to perpetrate any crime. Referring to the submarinings he said: ‘‘These barbarous attacks create a difficult and serious problem on which all the Admiralty staff and a staff of officers arc working day and night. Britain has destroyed a very large number of enemy submarines .and British submarine activity is constantly increasing. SUFFERINGS OF BRITISH SAILORS 1/ONDON. Feb. 12. The British vessel, the Lycin, has been sunk. The survivors of the torpedoed steamer, the Artist, state that they were in open boats in arctic weather for five j days. Seven died and their bodies were thrown overboard, and two have been sent to the hospital. The sufferings were appalling. ITALIAN SHIPPING. i DOING BUSINESS TS USUAL. (Received Feb. 14. 10.30 a.m.) ROME, Fch. 13. Despite the unrestricted submarining Italian shipping continues as heretofore. Manners regard the measures for their protection as efficacious.