AN ESCORT FOR THE DEUTSCHLAND

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2922, 7 November 1916, Page 5

AN ESCORT FOR THE DEUTSCHLAND

GERMAN WAR SUBMARINE AS CONVOY AND AN INCIDENTAL PIRATE Australian-New Zealand Oable Association. New London, November S. lne Deutschland has unloaded and reloading has commenced. It is understood that sho will leave shortly. Many newspapers have published dispatches from Germany, brought by the Deutschland. (Router's Tcleerani.) ' . New York, November 5. Captain Koenig, of the submarine Deutschland, announces that submarine U57 is expected to convoy tho Deutschlandl back to Germany. The New York "Evening Mail" says that a war submarine left Kiel soon after the Deutschland, and is due within a week. She will operate, like TJS3, in tho vicinity of Nantucket. PIRACIES IN EUROPEAN WATERS SWEDISH VESSEL ATTACKED Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. Stookholm, November 5. A' German submarine held up the Swedish steamer Runhild, placed a prize crew aboard, and ordered) her to Jjibau. Subsequently another submarine torpedoed' the Runhild. A Swedish torpedo boat saved tbo crew, and tho prize crew was interned l .' THE TOLL ON NEUTRAL SHIPPING London, November 5. During the war period the Gormans have sunk neutral vessels of 421,333 gross tonnage. The chief sufferers are the Norwegians with 168 vessels of 42,779 tons; Danisb 38, 37,234 Ions: Dutch 18, 54,914 tons. RUSSIAN MINEFIELDS IN THE BALTIC). Stockholm, November 5. Russia has informed! Sweden of her intention to lay another minefield in the Aaland Sea, near Swedish territorial waters. PIRATE SUBMAWNEJTOFF PORTUGAL CONNECTION WITH' INTERNAL INTRIGUE. (Ileuter'B Telegram.) Lisbon, November 5.' The State Council, realising that the activity of enemy submarines, off the coast is connected with the disturbances which agitators are attempting to organise in co-operation with expelled' Germans on the occasion of the elections, has decided to postpone the elections, and if necessary suspend the Constitution.