MALESSORI LOOTERS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2486, 12 June 1915, Page 5

MALESSORI LOOTERS

PUNISHED BY THE ITALIANS (Reo. June 11, 10.50 p.m.) Rome, June 11. The authorities at Medua detained vessels with food cargoes destined for Montenegro. The Malessori looted the vessels, and Italian destroyers thereupon shelled the town and disembarked, a landing party to hold the leaders aB hostages until the foodstuff was dispatched. [Medua, or San Gioranui di Medusa, is a small seaport in Albania, 17 miles south by east of Skutarij to the north of the mouth of tie Driu.] THE BRITISH NAVY REPLY TO CRITICISMS London, June 10. Commander Cbrlyou Bellairs, R.N., replying to criticisms _by United States papers on the inactivity of the British Navy, said: "The man who wrote them ought to procure a chart and study it for a few minutes ui.th an American naval offioer at his elbow; then he mightlearn a. lot. Cuxhaven and Kiel _ oro bidden behind miles 'of hearily-mined sandbanks. At the breakwater at Heligoland there are only a few German torpedo boats and submarines. _ In naval warfare one goes by probabilities, not Dossibilities. A British submarine would rot have one chance in a million of getting be.voud the stone walls where the Germans hide their fleet. It is not a question of initiativo. 'What our submarines havo done in scouting around Heligoland and the Dardanelles proves this. It is just a question of common-sense tactics. The German fleet only needs to come to sea, leave its stone fortress for a fow hours, and get all the trouble it would ever be able to seek."