OUR SUBMARINE WAR IN THE BALTIC

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2608, 2 November 1915, Page 6

OUR SUBMARINE WAR IN THE BALTIC

LIGHTS OUT IN THE SOUND BylWetrapl—Press Association—Copyrijht Copenhagen, Ootober 31. Denmark is extinguishing several lights in the Sound (tho 50-mile Strait between the G'attcgat and tho Baltic). Night navigation, is practically impos. sibTe. The Germans have bean complaining that British submarines are slipping; through the Sound, which is territorial water. A FALLEN IDOL. .VON TIRPITZ OUT OF FAVOUR. • Amsterdam, October 31. Aooording to the Rotterdam newspaper "Maasbode," Admiral von Tirpitz, Minister for Marine, has fallen into disgrace with the Kaiser. THE HESPERIAN LIE.

CONVINCING PROOF OF HUN . CHICANERY. Washington, October 31. The United States Navy Department has definitely established that a fragment of metal found on tho liner Hesperian formed part of a torpedo. [The Allan liner Hesperian, 10.920 tons, was torpedoed near Fastnet, off the south-west coast of Cork, on ths night of September 3. The submarine was reported to have been within 200 yards when she launched the torpedo. A Berlin semi-official message, published on September 15, stated that .it was practically impossible that a German submarine was responsible for_ tho damage to the Hesperian. According to tho German war plans no submarine waß in that locality on September 4; moreover, the ship was hit close to the stern, and the inference was that the explosion was due to a mine and not to a torpedo. It was stated yesterday that Mr. Lansing, United! States Secretary of State, had officially announced the fact that proof of the submarine attack had been found, and that Germany had been asked to explain.] , THE INVISIBUTFOE IN THE DARDANELLES MR, BARTLETT ON SUBMARINE WARFARE (Rec. November 1,11.50 p.m.)

London, Novembor 1. Mt. Ashmead Bartlett (the English war correspondent), describing the work of the German submarines in the Dardanelles, says: "One of their first fruits was the Albion, which ran ashore. The enemy directed a heavy gun-fire at her, the shrapnel bursting all round. The Canopus went to the rescue, and finally towed the Albion off, being hit two hundred times by shrapnel and common shell. The men on the Swift-suTe arranged sweepstakes for competition in sighting the enemy's periscopes, and the fcurteen-pounders were ready day and night to fire at a moment's notice.

"One day a submarine appeared three hundred yards off the port-bow, and tho Swiftsure's . gunners fired. She disappeared. It was thought that the submarine was trying to force the entrance to the Dardanelles. Sho came up blindly among tho ships. When tho alarm was given the destroyers were immediately alert, and, as if by magic, every battleship and transport weighea anchor and steamed away at full-speed. "When the Swiftsure's signalman announced that the Triumph had a list we rushed to the quarter-deck, and while our guns were bombarding tho Turks, and theirs were leisurely responding, wo watchcd the Triumph's dying struggles in silence. It suddenly seemed a weary, hopeless fight against invisible forces. Eight minutes after she was struck sho turned turtle, then floated for half an hour, plunged, and disappeared." A KNOTTY PROBLEM FOR THE HUNS. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. November 1, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 31. German naval experts are giving anxious attention to the discussion ot measures for beating off British submarines in the Baltic. They admit that the problem is bristling with difficulties, as Germany is unable to adopt defensive measures because of her proximity to the Swed'bh and Danish coasts.