ON THE SEAS.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16146, 26 February 1918, Page 7

ON THE SEAS.

BRITISH RAIDER'S i EXPLOIT. GERMAN STEAMER CAPTURED. Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) COPENHAGEN, February 24. A British auxiliary cruiser captured the German steamer Dusseldorf on a voyage from Trotiiso (Norway) to Stettin. The Dusseldorf (5877 tons) was built • in 1912, and owned by a Hamburg firm. Btettih, the capital of the Prussian province of Pomerania, and one of the busiest ports on the southern side of -the Baltic, stands on both banks of the Oder, 30 miles from tho Baltic and 00 miles north-east of Berlin. TO COMBAT THE PIUATBS. NEW YORK, February 24. » Sir Henry Ford has announced that itik has started on a 2,000,000,000 ddllftr plant designed exclusively for the Baanfacturo of a fleet of new vessels

Iriuch he claims will solve the U-boat tfdMem. ANOTHER AFFRONT TO SPAIN. (ifittirUian sod N.Z. Cabfe Aaaociaticn.) '..(Received February 25th, 8 p.m.) LONDON, February 24. A Madrid wireless message states tbat the Spanish ship Mar-Caspio (2723 k®B)j from New York, was torpedoed 200 Miles from the Conariee. The steamer Clandeolopez saw the attacking submarine fire 40 rounds ofi thd' sinking ressel. She rescued the , . cfotp. . Spanish newspapers are indignant, ' ■ and demand a breaking off of relations i-fcith Germany. \ v