SUBMARINE WAR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVI, Issue 16234, 2 April 1917, Page 7

SUBMARINE WAR.

, THE BRITISH 'MINEFIELD. N.Z. Cal/e Assn.) i: . Received' 5.5 p.m., April Ist. LONDON, March 31. The "London Gazette" announces an extension of the North Sea mined area.: It will follow the limit of Dutch territorial waters. •v. : y ; • . • THE OTAKI'S CAPTAIN.

- Archibald Smith, captain of the Otoki, was killed while fighting the Moewe. He' would have taken the position of Marine Superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company, in New Zealand on the completion of the outward voyage.-*

MISSING FROM THE ALNWICK . CASTLE. LONDON, March 31. fhe Union Castle Company'announces that three' boats from the Alnwick Castle are missing. SWEDEN PROTESTS TO GERMANY.

(Reuter's Telegrams.) I CHR3STIANIA, March 3G. The Government has again protested against ihe German blockade. A GERMAN TALLY 1 . AMSTERDAM, March 30. < /Admiral Von Oapelle claims that 781,003 tons were sunk in February, and tha« fewer, submarines were lost than was anticipated. A HEAVY"TOLL. x - f - v , . Received 1.40 a.m., April 2nd. -r ' /LONDON, April 1. " Submarines escorting - the Iceland sank the British steamers Glaysroyre, 326S tons, La!dy Island 4500 tons, Rangotb. 5500 tons, the sailer Pmrnars, tho small • Canadian: trader Perce, and , the French vessels Antonina 4000 tons, Larochefoucauld 2220. tons, Charles Gounod 2399 tons,' 1 and Duplex. 2206 • tons, .-all westward of Madeira between January ,3 and March 5. ,