U-BOAT CRIMES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15529, 5 June 1918, Page 5

U-BOAT CRIMES.

SINKINGS NEAR AMERICA. PASSENGER STEAMER BEING SHELLED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received June 5, 10.55 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 4. The Navy Department announces that it has received advices that three American schooners have been sunk by a submarine off the American coast. The schooner Jacob Haskell was sunk by gunfire, the crew being rescued. The Isabelle D. Willey was shelled. Eleven members of the crew of the American schooner Edwin H. Cole have arrived at New York. They said that their vessel was destroyed by two submarines 35 miles off the Now Jersey coast, where several vessels are reported to have been sunk. The authorities are holding outgoing ships. Unconfirmed reports state that fif-teen-vessels have been sunk, and that one U-boat has been captured. The Navy Department has been advised that a Steamer carrying 300 passengers is now being shelled off the coast. The City of Columbus, which was believed to have been sunk, has arrived safe. An empty boat of the liner Carolina has been found at sea, but there was no trace of the occupants. Nineteen other siftrivors have landed at Lewes, Delaware. The majority of the remainder have been rescued.

AERIAL WARFARE. BRITISH NAVAL AIRCRAFT BUST. (Ans. & N.Z. Cable Assn. & Reuter.) Received June 4, 9.20 a.m. ‘ LONDON, June 4. The Admiralty reports; Between Thursday and Sunday naval aircraft carried out night and day raids at Bruges docks, Zeebrugge, and Ostend. Several tons of heavy bombs were dropped on Objectives with good results. Photographs confirm the great damage done to large engineering works at Bruges. TYiee of our machines are missing. Meanwhile, the aircraft sighted and attacked a submarine, and located several enemy mines. During patrols in the North Sea they also sighted a Zeppelin, but a seaplane was unable to overtake and engage the enemy, effectively. One seaplane is missing. BRITISH AIK OPERATIONS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received June 5, 11.10 a.m. LONDON, June 4. Sir Douglas Haig’s aviation report states: Our aeroplanes dropped eighteen tons of bombs, and heavily ma-cbifie-gunned a great varieiv of tarfets. They dropped eigiiT tons of ombs last night on Le Cateau, St. Quentin, and Valenciennes railway stations. All our night fliers returned. TWO DATS’ GOOD WORK. LONDON, June 4. During June Ist and 2nd, twenty-nine German aeroplanes were brought down and 130 tons of explosives dropped on enemy depots, convoys, and troops. WOMEN AYIATORS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received June 4, 9.10 a.m. LONDON, June 4. Mr Roberts. Minister for Labour, speaking at a demonstration by girls at Sheffield, announced • We are going to hare women aviators. They will make good aviators. ITALIAN AFFAIRS. THE PARODI CASE. lustralian and N.Z- Cable Association. Received June 5. 11 a.m. ROME, June 4. Parodi has been released, it having been proved that there was no foundation for the charge against him. Signor Parodi, who was arrested early in May, i a a director of financial and industrial companies, and a leading personality in the Italian shipping world. He is President of the Federation of Shipowners, and has a fortune of <£4f,OO(I,GOO. He was charged with shameless trading with the enemy, it being alleged that be had despatched Chiasso.

ITALIAN TRAITORS. The Italians have their difficulties with traitors. One of the leading shipowners was recently arrested, and now a leading banker, Signor Feltrinelli, considered to be the richest man in Italy. His fortune is put at .£8,000,000. He is the bead of a most important bank bearing his name, and is closely connected with the silk, cotton, and timber industries. His social position is very high. He is 34 years of age and a bachelor, and aihong his intimate friends is a lady of Austrian nationality who is now in Florence. The affair is absorbing the attention of all Italy. For some time the question of the export of floss silk to Switzerland has been discussed, and the Mi bn Secolo (Century) engaged in a vigorous campaign in the autumn of 1916 advocating its stoppage and asserting that the destination of such material was evidently Germany, where silk, among other uses, was employed for making Zeppelin envelopes. The control society established in Switzerland, on the board of which are representatives of the Allies, and whose task was to guarantee tint all imports to Switzerland were required only for internal use, failed to see and to prevent indirect traffic with the enemy. Italian exports to Switeerland daring 1916 amounted to £ 15,800,000, and of this total about £12,440,000 was represented by silk and floss silk. Could such a quantity be the real requirements of Switeerland?