SUBMARINE RAIDERS SINK MORE SHIPS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2427, 5 April 1915, Page 5

SUBMARINE RAIDERS SINK MORE SHIPS

, UlO ATTACKS UNDER FALSE COLOURS London, April 2. The German submarine TJIO sank to-day the trawlers Jason and Gloxinia off Shields. She took the crews aboard and transferred them to another fishing boat. Later she sank the trawler Nellie, the crew of which escaped in a boat. * (Rec. April 4, 3,30 p.m.) • London, April 3. The Jason and Gloxinia were fishing forty miles of! the Tyne. The crews were" taken aboard XJIO and the trawlers sunk. . The submarine transferred the crews' to the trawler Rhodesia, and then hoisted the British flag and sunk the Nellie by gunfire. The crew of tlie boat were picked up in an exhausted_ state three hours later. 'The UlO stopped the Nor, timber-ladeu for Hull, on Wednesday, and ignited the cargo. The commander handed the captain a certificate that his vessel was sunk under the Declaration of London. The Nor was sighted on Friday, still burning. The Dutch collier Schieland was sunk by a mine near the Humber. One of the crew was blown to pieces. Four others were injured and seven are missing. There are three steamers named the Nor, all on the Norwegian registry. They are respectively of 1418, 591, and 158 tons gross. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK OFF SPANISH COAST. London, April 2. The German submarine U2B sank t]ia British steamer South Point (3837 tons) sixty miles off Capo Fiiiistcrro, at the north-western extremity of .Spain. The crew, thirty-six in number, worn landed at Lisbon by another British vessel. NORWEGIAN BARQUE SUNK P.Y U29. London, April 2. A steamer landed at Hie Hook of Holland eleven of the crew of a Norwegian barque named the Amsterdam, torpedoed in the North Sea. Sho Ms sunk''2so unlet, from the Hook of Hollaud by. 112 c Herman bubmarius U2O.

RUSSIANS BATTER FOUR SUBMARINES. petrograd, April 2. It is semi-oflieially stated that the Russians battered four German submarines, ivhjlst nullifying nineteen submarine attacks. TREATMENT OF CAPTURED GERMAN PIRATES BRITISH REPLY TO BERLIN INQUIRY. London, April 2. The Press Bureau reports that Germany, through Washington, has inquired as to the reported differential treatment of submarine crews held as prisoners in England. The Note emphasised that tho crews only executed the orders given them, and therefore had solely fulfilled, their military duties. It lidded that if they were treated worse than others, then for each member of tho crews held prisoner a British Army officer imprisoned in Germany would receive correspondingly harsher treatment. Sir Edward Grey replied that officers and men of the submarines "OS and TJI2 were segregated from the other prisoners of war, but were treated, however, with humanity. They were provided with German books, had opportunities for exercise, and were not subjected to forced labour. They were better fed and clothed than British prisoners of equal rank in Germany. As, however, these men were engaged in sinking innocent British and neutral merchantmen, and in wantonly killing non-combatants, they cannot be regarded as honourable opponents, but as under the orders of their Government having committed offences against the laws of nations and contrary to common humanity. Tho reply emphasises the fact that during the war upwards of a thousand officers and men of the German Navy were rescued from the sens, sometimes in spite of danger to the rescuers and prejudice to the British naval operations. There was no instance of the Germans rescuing any officers or men of the British Royal Navy. SUBMARINES ATTEMPT TO LEAVE ZEEBRUGGE. (Rec. April 3, 10 a.m.) Amsterdam, April 2. British warships for two hours bombarded Zeebrugge owing to German submarines attempting to steal through the minefield. A new aviation camp, a mile from the town, was also bombarded. The Gorman batteries spasmodically replied.