SUBMARINE PIRATE OUTWITTED

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2750, 19 April 1916, Page 5

SUBMARINE PIRATE OUTWITTED

BRITISH SKIPPER'S PLUCKY SEAMANSHIP ' , SUNDER FIBE FOB TWO AND : A-BALF HOURS j-By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ "-'■• ;■ London, April 17. The British steamer Duendes escaped a submaj'ine through the captain's skil--1 ful handling. She was'under fire for 2\ hours. Captain Chittenden saw a Scandinavian barque hove-to. He suspected ' that a submarine was lurking behind her. Twenty minutes later the submarine appeared and fired on the Duendes, Shells struck her ■ nine times, -and .the decks wcfe strewn, with I'shrapnel. No one was injured. • ' The Norwegian ship Glendoon (1917, tons) was sunk by gunfire: • : The British steamer Harrovian (4309 tons) has been sunk. -..•'.'-- . ..',', ATLANTIC SEAMEN DEMAND WAR , .-.,.. RISKPAY :.",/ ; New/York, .April. 17...,;; Tho sailings of several vessels on the Atlantic seaboard have been delayed, owing, to. demands formulated-; by the.- ', International Seamen's Union;' which claims a special,2s per cent;.,increase \\\ • for the war risk on the runs, to be applicable to all classes'of sailormenm ..the European war zone, and,other.in- • cretises'in. the monthly rateß,,.,';,, ,;;;.! _....A PROBLEM FOR OUR SEAMEN PIRATES' NEW SEA TACTICS. '••■-■: ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ; " -"'-(Rec.''April-18,"5.5 p.m.) _ . ; . London, April 17. .. The "Times" --.'naval correspondent says: "This month the average number of submarhw losses works' out' at about two ships daily, lessthan one occurring '■■■ m home waters,'"aiid something over • one occurring in the Mediterranean. i Manifestly, the Germans do not have . j°_KstoH'n. to their home ports to re- - plenisli'Timmunition and petrol.- It will tax the ingenuity of our seamen to ■' " counteract, this new campaign."! ■ another jolt for America ■ -■ ■' ■-.■* , > 9.30 p.mT ""'■'■'■■ Washington, April 17. Two Americans, ono of whom was wounded, were on board the Russian : steamer. Imperator>:,:;bou'nd from the' ; TJi}ited;;.States toZMkrseilles, which, of- '■- ficial advices say, an Austrian subrnap- ■'. ■: ine shelled without warning. ; BATTLE-PLANE /ENGAGES SHIP ■'■\ By Telegraph—Frees Association-Copyright ; i ■•:•■.- , Paris, April 17. A communique states: "On the night -5 of April 15„one, of .our armoured aero- :j • planes, at-a-height of one •'•hundred .; 'metres, fired sixteen shells-at an enemy i .ship ,in the North Sea, The .majority (lit-the. mark.",. ~ ■-. -.',•.- . , The High Commissioner reports:—;'; ' s London, April 17, 5.20 p:m. "On Saturday night one of our gun aeroplanes at a height of 300 feet at. '■>, tacked in the North Sea an enemy ship, t upon which it fired syxteen shells, the , larger number" of' which took effect." i