HUN DREADNOUGHTS TORPEDOED

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2924, 9 November 1916, Page 5

HUN DREADNOUGHTS TORPEDOED

BRITISH SUBMARINE CLAIMS TWO HITS OFF THE DANISH COAST The High Commissioner reports:— 'in London, November 7. the Admiralty further reports: "A British submarine now claims to have hit two German Dreadnoughts of the Kaiser class, in the North Sea. near the Danish coast." THE PIRATE WAR HUNS' LATEST ALLEGATIONS (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Assn. and Ecutor.) <pl r, • • , Lont,on i November 7. Ine British Admiralty reports: "The German Press is attempting to make capital out of what it describes as a second Baralong case. One object is to incite American opinion against Great Britain, and another is to.find arguments in favour of an unrestrained submarine campaign. The facts arc perfectly simple. On the morning of beptember 24, 1915, in the western part of tho Channel, U4l was engaged in sinking British merchantmen. Meanwhile a converted merchantman, commissioned as an auxiliary ship, approached. Her oharaeter was immediately recognised, and lest the submarine should submerge before she came within range, she hoisted' neutral colours, a perfectly legitimate ruse de guerre. She hoisted 1 , when within range, the white ensign, as British warships are required to do, and fired on and sank the submarine. The immediate preoccupation of the commander was the rescue of the crew of a British steamer who had been compelled to take to the boats fifty miles from the nearest port. The auxiliary ship then closed on one of tho sunken steamer s boats, which had broken adrift and m which were two of the submarine's survivors. Thesa were rescued in the same way, but after their victims. "The use of a neutral flag in order to approach within range of an enemy is a recognised naval practice, and is repeatedly adopted by the Germans. The majority of the Moewe's victims were secured by this method. It is difficult to believe that anybody except a German would base on these facts an accusation of brutality on the ground that the English, not the German, survivors were saved first by a few minutes. Tho allegation that the Admiralty had ever issued orders that survivors from submarines need not be resoued is an absolute lie, and l was explicitly denied! in the Note of February 25 on the Baralong case."

[A German submarine, stated to have been that which sank the Arabic, attacked the steamer Nicosian, on board which were a number of American muleteers. The German story, based on affidavits by some of the Americans, was that tho Baralong, a commissioned ship disguised as an American merchantman, came up and sank the submarine, audi that the survivors who reached the Nicosian were slaughtered in cold blood by members of the Baralong's crew. The British Admiralty denied the story, and it was subsequently stated that the Germans were killed by the enraged Americans on the Nicosian.]

SHIP FOR SHIP DEMAND RESTITUTION' FOE- PIRATICAL OUTRAGES. Australian-New Zealand Oable Association. New York, November 7. The London correspondent of the "New York Times" interviewed Mr. Robert Yerburgh, president of the Navy League. He says: "Two hundred and seventeen Ohambors of Commerce are agreed that Germany must replace every sunken ship before peace negotiations aro opened. We are demanding that the Government shall insist on these terms."