GERMAN GUNBOAT SUNK.
BY RUSSIAN SUBMARINES
PETROGRAD, Wednesday. A flotilla of Russian submarines sunk a German gunboat near the scone of the Gazelle affair.
SUBMARINE ATTACK ON COM-
MERGE,
A CONFESSION OF WEAKNESS
(Received Thursday, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Wednesday.
Mr Archibald Hard, tho well-known naval writer, in an article in the Daily Telegraph, argues that tho destroying of commerce by submarines is a confession of weakness. The Kaiser's submarines would not be wasting their time sinking small merchant ships if they could sink warships.
Other authorities declare that the attacks are scarcely removed from absolute piracy, and are unanimously of tho opinion that such a form of blockade cannot succeed. They do not credit the statement made by Admiral Tirpitz that the biggest type of German submarine is capable of circumnavigating Britain, unless the Germans have found places to lay up and rest their crews. The Morning Post urges that the best reply to the German outrages would be to declare contraband everything that goes into Germany seaward.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14203, 4 February 1915, Page 5
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