SEVENTEEN SAILORS MISSING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2426, 3 April 1915, Page 7

SEVENTEEN SAILORS MISSING

_ HELPLESS CREWS JEERED AT ROYAL CUE FOR THE NATION KING GEORGE AND THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC ANOTHER AIR RAID ON THE HOBOKEN SUBMARINES To-day's news tells of : the loss of three more merchant ships—two • British and one French—under circumstances largely similar to those which were such a revolting feature of the sinking of the Falaba. Sailors were taunted and jeered at. Seventeen are missing from the French vessel. Herr Harden, who some time ago declared that Germany had wanted war all along—he saw no reason why his country should not say so from the house-tops—has declared that when the radius of the German naval operations is extended, Britain may expect to be encircled by a ring of mines, which will effectively blockade her ports. A German seaplane has attempted to drop bombs on a Dutch steamer — are signs of military activity in the Netherlands, and a significant stiffening up in the army's ranks. Press comment on ■ the Falaba outrage is fittingly indignant over this latest demonstration of Hun "frightfulness," and the New York papers say so quite plainly. On the land thore is very little to chronicle regarding the two great battlefronts m the East and West. There is apparently some very serious fighting in the Suwalki region, but there are no details wherewith to construct a picture. The Russian progress on the southern side of the Carpathians is being successfully developed. In France the Allies' airmen several exploits to their credit, and their latest visit to Hoboken must have been frightfully annoying to the German submarine engineers. Along the Western battlefront there appears to be renewed activity in the Somme district, in the Woevre, the Argonne, and in Alsace. The piessuro of the enemy is reported in one quarter to be becoming a difficult matter for the French line in . that region to . resist. There is no news of the Dardanelles operations at tho front gate of Constantinople, and a mere reference to the activities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which is battering at the back doer. The South African' Union forces have occupied important points in their advance towards tho -enemy's stronghold in German South-West Africa. King George has been gravely concerned by tho revelations of tho shipbuilders during tbeir interview last week with Mr. Lloyd George, and has decidcd to sot the nation a royal example in tlio practice of prohibition.