SUBMARINE PIRACY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2712, 6 March 1916, Page 5

SUBMARINE PIRACY

NEW POLICY TO BE CARRIED OUT ByMesrapli-Freiss Association—Copyright ( limes and Sydney "Sun" Services.) v . . ■ London, March 3. - Baron Sbhwurzenstein, -a Siigh official in the Berlin Foreign Office, interviewed by the Scandinavian Press, stated that the whole of the Gorman people are de- " termined to carry out'the-now submar-'. ine campaign from. Wednesday, because the enemy has armed merchant ships, contravening international .law. . "Pirates on the high' seas .belong to the past; it is therefore unnecessary to arm merchantmen." - ■ ( BRITISH SECRET ORDERS. (''Times'.' and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ■ London, March 3.i Berlin has issued photographs of alleged! British secret orders directing • merchantmen to 1 attack submarines. . THE LATEST SUBMARINE. GREAT RADIUS OF ACTION. ("Times" and' Sydney "Sun" Services.) \ London, March 3. American correspondents in Berlin say that Germany's ' latest submarine io able to cross and re-cross the Atlan-*. tic without new supplies. MINE SWEEPER SUNK. THREE LIVES LOST. ' London, March 3, 3.30 p.m. The High Commissioner reports:— . J The'r Admiralty "mirio '.'sweeper' Primula; H-as torpedoed and suuk cn Wednesday, in the Eastern Mediterranean. Three lives were lost. A STEAMER MINED. SIX PERSONS KILLED?"' " : *" : : •: V Paris, March, 3. ~ ; The. steamer..Lakos. was mined , sunk'at Yeu: ■ Sis'of tfiose on were killed'. ITALIAN STEAMER TORPEDOED. (Rec. March 5, 11' p.m.) Athens, March 4. An Austrian submarino torpedoed the Italian steamer Java. The crew landed at the Piraeus. -