SUBMARINE PERIL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2517, 19 July 1915, Page 5

SUBMARINE PERIL

THE ADMIRALTY'S EFFORTS By Teleeraph—Press Aieociation-OopyrisM ("Times' 1 and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, July 16. Tho Navy League announces that ir . . order to allay groundless fears, Sie Adi . miralty is paying close attention to tho question of protection agaiust submarine, attacks on British infercahtile : Vessels/ particularly those trading in .tho Atlantic. , ;v•. i' ;

FRENCKi,TRAWLER MINED. ' Paris, July 16. The French, trawler Nieuport wag mined near and the crew drowned. . ""THE TOLL' FOR .THE WEEK. , (Reo. July 18, 3.30 p.m.) London, July 17/ ' Three British' merchantmen, with a tonnage of 10,016; were submarined or . mined during the week ending July. 14,«< out of 1380 arrivals and departures.

('STEAMERS AND SAILERS SUNK, (Rec. July 18, 6.55 p.m.) Petrograd, July 17. Official.—Our torpedo 'boats attacked the reconstructed batteries at Zunguldak. AVe destroyed two steamers, and several coal-laden sailers, and the submarine Morj sank a loaded steamer at tho entrance to the Bosphorus, alsoseveral sailors. RUSSIAN COLLIER TORPEDOED. (Rec. July 18, 11.30 p.m.) London, July IS. 1 '& submarine, sixty miles south-east bf the Shetlands, torpedoed the Russian cargo steamer Balve, with a thousand tons of coal. Fishing vessels picked up the craw, of seventeen.