SUBMARINE WAR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2626, 23 November 1915, Page 5

SUBMARINE WAR

FRENCH TRANSPORT SUNK

BRITISH STEAMER PICKS UP

SURVIVORS

AN UNEXPECTED TRAGEDY

✓ , By Telegraph—Press Associatlon-OopyrlrM

London, November 21. An officer of the steamer Lady 'Plymouth tells the story of tho French transport, Calvados being submarined in tile Mediterranean. The Lady Plymouth picked up a boat containing forty-six persons. They were French soldiers who had been in the trenches for fifteen months, and wero again gesig to tho trenches.

The officer stated, that lie saw three soldiers, after losing their liold on a raft, swim to the submarine, hoping to be taken aboard; but one 1 of tno submarine officers kicked the men's hands, and their comrades were obliged to look on helpless while t.ho men were drowned. Somo were rescued terribly cut and bruised. The Lady Plymouth saved 53 out of 800 meu. Thorp lias been 110 tidings of the remainder. SINKING OF THE CARIA AND , CLAN MACALISTER TOLD BY A SAILOR. London, November 21. A member of the orew of the i Cunard steamer Caria, which was sunk' in the Mediterranean on November 10, states that a German submarine, manned bj' Austrian®, ■ twice torpedoed the Clan Macalister after the crew took to "the boats, and then shelled and sank the • Caria, after ordering the crew, already in the boats, out of, the line of fire. Tho commander of the submarine, before leaving, apologised,, saying he was , . only obeying orders. Tho submarine seemed to be made almost entirely of aluminium, and looked like a silver strip in the sun's rays. GERMAN PIRATES GOING TO TURKEY BASE IN THE siToP MAItMORA. Cencva, November 21. Bulgarian reports Gtate that many German submarines nro passing towards Turkey. Tlioy are to go to German ' workshops at Rodosto, in the Sea of Marmora, where they are to be refitted.' "ABSOLUTELY FALSE'" . GERMAN ALLEGATION OF RED CROSS DISGUISES. New York, November 21. A Berlin correspondent, declares that/ it is officially announced that since tho submarining of an English transport liear Salonika, other 'transports have been disguised as hospital ships, flying - the Red Cross. It is pointed out,that seventy have passed Gibraltar on the way to Greece. It is obvious from the number that they are really carrying troops and munitions. Tho British Admiralty comments: "This is absolutely false. Our hospital ships have always been, and always will be, used in accordance with the Geneva ' . and The Hague Conventions." THE MEN WHO PATROL THE SEA LINES </1, ■. "... ■ ' NORTH SEA' FISHERMEN IN. THE MEDITERRANEAN. , ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.), 'London, November 21. Mr. Ashmead Bartlett pays a tribute to the work of trawlers in the Mediterranean, which have been' used for patrolling the lines of communication and conveying supplies for tho troops from Mudros to Gallipoli. "'iTie Nortli Soa fishermen are," says ,Mr. Bartlett, "a magnificent race. They are contemptuous of others, regarding seamanship as a lost art except by themselves. For eight months they liave swept tlie Straits and braved' shells and submarines. Elsewhere they have matle thousands of trips, the only loss being that of a trawler sunk by sliellfire at Anzac." BRITISH OFFICER'S ESCAPE FROM . DETENTION COMMANDER OF ILL-FATED El 3. Copenhagen, November .21.' The "Politiken" states that Lieut.Commander Layton (of El 3, which was shelled in The Sound by German destroyers) told tho barrack commandant that liis. promise not to escape only applied to such occasions as when lie ■ was' outside the barracks: The guard was ordered.to keep a strict 'watch.' Laj;ton 'retired to bed, saying he was taking a sleeping draught. lie escaped through a wiiidow, and thence in a friendly boat. Ho left a dummy' in liis bed, with a sponge for a head. ' Two other officers attempted'to escape, but were caught when climbing a wall. FOOD RIOTS IN VIENNA WOMEN FIGHT THE POLICE. By Telegraph—Presß Association—Copyright Amsterdam, November 21. Reports from Vienna state that serious food riots took place in tlie\markets on <Monday and Tuesdaiy last, owing to a dearth of vegetables and butter. Women fouglit the polico, and five women and one policeman.were wounded. After tho mounted police had charged the women dispersed, singing verses, demanding'immediate peace, to the tune of tho National .Anthem. GERMAN EDITOR WARNS HIS COUNTRYMEN r

By Telegraph—Press Asfociation—Copyright (Reo. November 22, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, November 22. Herr Harden, writing in his paper ■ '"Die Zukunst," warns his countrymen of entertaining vhe dangerous hope that the Allies desire peace. "Britain and Russia must be considered as only commencing the war, and therefore there - is worse fighting ahead for Germany." He urges Germany to state her intentions regarding peace terms. ALL QUIET IN PERSIA By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. November 22, 9.30 p.m.) Petrograd, November 21. ' The situation in Northern Persia is Satisfactory. Tho Russian troops are within thirty-five miles of Teheran, "which is quiet. BREACHES OF THE LAWSOP NEUTRALITY INDICTMENTS IN AMERICA. fly Telegraph—Prese Association—Copyright Hew York, November 21. A number of tho Hamburg-American Steamship Company' 6 officials are undor indictment charged with breaking tho neutrality laws. Tho evidence implicates Captain Boyd, a German military attache, who, it is alleged, attempted to purchase ships in order to' raid British commerce in tho North Atlantic'. Dr. Goricar, who was previously in charge of the Austrian Embassies, which fomented strikes and bomb outrages, is a material witness in the case.