STEAMER CAPTAINS AS WAR PRISONERS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2915, 30 October 1916, Page 5

STEAMER CAPTAINS AS WAR PRISONERS

'A' GERMAN INSTRUCTION, (Rec. .October 28, 6.55 p.m.) Zurich, October 27. A German official Note .' announces [ that all captains who may be captured on board the enemy's merchantmen will bo treated as prisoners, alleging that their Governments liavo instructed: them to carry on espionage BIG BRITISH LINER SUNK. HER CAPTAIN A PRISONER. (Rec. October 29, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 2". The 10,000-ton Johnston liner Rowan« more has .been sunk and the captain, is } a prisoner. THE TORPEDOED DONALDSON : LINER. Two boats, with thirty-two men of the Donaldson liner Cabotia, which, was , sunk on Monday, are still missing. \ JUMP IN WAR.RISKS 3 —: 3 • ("Tec Times.") J . London, October 27. War risk rates on liners traversing 5 the Atlantic are now 205.; other vessels l 405.; by the Cape route 405.; United: - Kingdom to Scandinavia 100s. per cent. [ GERMAN SUBMARINE REPORTED OFF VIRGINIA AN UNCONFIRMED STORY. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. 5 New York, October 27. The Navy Department has learned . that a German submarine has arrived' . at Norfolk (Chesapeake Bay, Virginia).' > All information *s being withheld. Later.. : The Navy Department says that the 5 story of a submarine's arrival at Nor- , folk is only a report, which lias nob . s been confirmed. F '