SUBMARINE WARFARE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15133, 30 January 1917, Page 2

SUBMARINE WARFARE.

Sinking of the .laurentic. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Services.,) LNDQN, January 29. The Admiralty announces that the auxiliary cruiser Laurentic was sunk t —either submarined or mined—late on Thursday. Twelve officers and 109 men were saved. The crew who were saved include • fcli captain and the commander. ‘ The latest sinkings include the Nor' tvegian vessels Decax and Mytal. The Laurentic was one of th<j best-* known White Star liners- She was 11,892 tons displacement, and was* launched in 1908. -Prior to the war the Laurentic was engaged in the TransAtlantic trade. 82 DANISH SHIPS TORPEDOED. COPENHAGEN, January 28. Eighty-two Danish vessels have been torpedoed. They were worth seventy million kroner. There is great regarding Germany’s new submarine threats. GERMAN SUBMARINE LOST. CHRISTIANIA, January 29. A motor-boat landed 34 of the crew, of a German submarine which foundered off the Norwegian coast.