ANTI-DYNASTIC PLOT IN BULGARIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14743, 23 October 1915, Page 5

ANTI-DYNASTIC PLOT IN BULGARIA.

*""" ~ r~ Received October 23, 10.30 a.m. LONDON, October 22. An anti-dynastic plot in Bulgaria has been discovered. The l houses of the Opposition leaders and numerous politicals have been searched.

NURSE CAVELL’S STORY

THE SINKING OF SUBMARINES.

TO BE READ WITH PRIDE AND j HORROR. Press Association. —Telegraph—Copyright Received October 23, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, October 22. The Westminster Gazette states that every English man and woman will read Nurse Cavell’s story with pride at the braycry of ttye splendid woman in scorning a 'subterfuge, and horror and indignation at the cruelty and lack of chivalry in inflicting a savage penalty for a technical offence,, A LESSON PROM THE OUTRAGE. Received October 23, 9. 50 a.m 4 . LONDON, October 22. * The Pall Mall Gazette says the ino* j ment when the Gentian officer, by firing j his revolver 1 ' into the unconscious form i of a brave woman, destroyed a life un- j tiringly spent in the service of human- i ity, has compressed into one dramatic picture all that is embodied in the conflict convulsing the whole hemisphere. No peace is tolerable if it fails to ensure the final and Qomplete destruction of the Power trampling truth, justice, and mercy under the heel of foul-minded arrogance and insatiable beastiality. "MOST DAMNABLE CRIME IN THE WAR." LONDON, October 22. The newspapers publish complete documents on the martyrdom of Nurse Cavell. Leading articles denounce it as Germany’s crowning infamy. The Daily Graphic characterises it as the most damnable crime in the war. QUITE YANKEE-LIKE. HYSTERICAL NEW YORK PRESS. , WISE SUGGESTION RE CROAKERS. i Received October 23, 8.0 a.m. I LONDON, October 22. New York newspapers hysterically I comment on the shakiness of Britain’s I position and the peijil threatening in 1 the Balkans, and suggest that Britain I should muzzle the croakers and politi"cal schemers to prevent stories which I are here converted into flaming he.adt lines. The American nerves are faggy. j Some hystericals apprehend a German \ invasion of South America and Mexico And the bombardment of New York; |

A GERMAN PROTEST. Press Association .^-Telegraph—-Copy right. Received October 23, 10.30 a.m. , , ’ - PARIS, October 22. The newspaper ,Liherte reports that a German protest against the netting of submarines has ‘reached the ItalianGovernment from: a ne-utral source. Germany has also protested against the I sending out of Jatge vessels to sink sub- i marines. '

THE SUBMARINE FIASCO.

' ; . mr. ■ "VERY MODEST RESULTS." AMIgSIO^p^FAiLTJEE.'" A candid review of six months of German submarine nfarfare since February appears in the Berliner Tageblatt from the pep of Captain Piersius. He writes:— “It will be remembered that at the beginning of February in Germany high hope was placed on submarine Warfare, and many believed’'that ha the British, Fleet had cuf ns off from, overseas imports, it would not’be difficn't now for our submarines to d 6 the same to Great Britain. Part of bur Press must unfortunately be held responsible for' the extravagant expectations which many of ilie public connected with submarine* war against commerce. In this newspaper it has often been emphhsised that from an expert estimate of the efficacy of the submarine and in view of the number of our submarines, the' success and the effect of the new naval' warfare could appear only after a considerable time. ■Again and again we have counselled patience. Hew necessary this was is evident fiom a simple face, the concealment of which to-day would seem dishonest, that the results of the activity of our mbmarines in their war on commerce are viewed in many circles as, shall. we say,' ‘very modest'? ‘ “The curve of our submarines’ successes has been greatly varied. There have been weeks when hardly one hostile ship has been torpedoed, while in other weeks more than a dozen ships have been destroyed. the week ending August 4, it i was announced that six English merchant ■hips and nine fishjag steamers fell victims to the U boats. It was added that departures and arrivals of ships from and at the United Kingdom ports were 143,5. This figure may be considered too ugh, but there can-be” no doubt that in my case at least 1000 ships within one week have traded with English ports. Nosmall number of submarines is required lo attack the 1500 ships, more or less, j which within one week enter British ports. “Now many assume that submarines, being so small, can be produced in a very short time. The ‘modern high-seas 0 boat; however, is by no means small. ’ It displaces up to a thousand and more tons, and is therefore considerably larger ban a torpedo-boat. It presents a combination .of the most minute and compli- * ated paraphernalia, and everything on board has to be set up with the utmost vrecision in the smallest' space, and it is therefore clear that the period for contraction of a U boat cannot be, quite so short as one would wish, “There is no more. complicated fighting nstrument than the U boat, which means hat the task of commanding and nanaging it is not simple or easily learnt, vnd that considerable time must elapse vefore the commander and crew are nmiliar “with the boat. ' • . “At the beginning of the w<fr our snbnarines sank a series of warships, and mw one hears of almost: nothing of the •.art. This is the way some ‘armchair sailors’ talk. There is no better school ‘han war. It is a pity, however, that it > n«t oulv we who learn in it. Only a diild would accuse the British of being s a d mariners. They know how to defend '’.eTnsdv?s, so they devised many kinds vf Tsroteeti'-e measures,- It becomes more fnd more difficult for U boats to near 'ostile ships and launch a torpedo. ,Al- - fabulous skill is required to avdd ill the pitfalls, etc;, and get away from orpedo-destrovers. and nevertheless make i, ‘ucocs ful attack. - “Service aboard submarines demands ■be greatest tens'on of all tbe mental end ibvsicaT forces. i Anart; f*in "the qnpntjty md Quality of onr-firstsolnss material, ‘here is the question of the quality tf ■ lensonhel. That' should bo remembered ■yupn calculations are male cf ajiGci--1 n-'tod pnceosses in submarine war. against commerce. v

{ ROUMANIAN MISSION TO 1 RUSSIA.

i LONDON, October 22. ’ The Daily Mail’s Rome correspondent reports that a mission from the Roumanian Government has passed through Odessa en route to Petrograd. Times and Sydney Sun Servcies. _____ .

i SIR lAN HAMILTON.

ARRIVAL AT MARSEILLES. I ■ PARIS, October 22. Sir lan Hamilton and staff have arrived 'at Marseilles, aboard the cruiser Chatham. ' * ' ■

1 NS W. NURSES FOR THE ‘ FRONT.

Received October 23, 8.5 oa.m. SYDNEY, October 23. It is stated .that 300 nurses have left New South Wales for the front and to keep this number up to ful strength thirty reinforcements wil. : have to be sent Quarterly.

f CHAPLAIN APPOINTED.

1 (Per United Prjss Association.) WELLINGTON, October 23; The Rev. F. T. Head, Methodist, minis f ter of Dunedin, has been appointed chap- • lain to the’ liosnital ship Manama, rente 1 1 B eatirtg the Md’hodist, Presbyterian, Bap I list, and Congregational Churches,