SUBMARINE WAR

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3006, 17 February 1917, Page 9

SUBMARINE WAR

HOW THE BRITISH HUNT THE PIRATES

Paris, February 15. M. Raymond Lestoruiat, writing in "l'lllustration," states that the British have captured ail important number of small submarines in nets, which are of two kinds. One is used to bar the entrance of ports; the others are lighter, and are employed by trawlers, which drag them along the bottom of the sea..

Destroyers and patrol boats use a powerful grenade, which explodes at a pre-arranged depth, and which works automatically by contact of the water with the fuse. The grenade has explosive power over an area of twenty-five yards, sufficient to twist the bull plates of a submarine. The patrol boats endeavour to get above the submarine and then throw out the grenades. IV hen a stain of oil appears on the surface there is good reason to believe that tho submarine is sunk; but the captains of the patrol boats never claim to have sunk one .unless they havo definite proof—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

STAKING THEIR ALL. ■ New York, February 15. Tho United Press Agency at Berlin has been transferred to Berne. The agent states that the Germans staking all on the assumption that the submarines will be able to paralyse the Entente's war industries. They do not believe that America will be able to help the Allies much, because they will be isolated. _ Germany intends to send submarines to American waters. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

TIRPITZ PARTY LOSING POWER ' London, February 15. The "Daily Telegraph's" Copenhagen correspondent says that Germany realises that, tlio whole "humanitarian world is against the submarine campaign. Herr von Eethmann Hollweg and Herr Zimmerman favour an amelioration of submarine warfare and the of relations with America. The Tirpitz Party is rapidly losing power, and it may be taken as a certainty that Germany will not deliberately provoke war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. .

ADMIRAL JELLICOE SPEAKS London,' February 15. . Admiral Sir John Jellicoc in a speech in the city alluded to our Imperial Navy, including men from the overseas Dominions, and also men ,of the mercantile marine. No word of gratitude for them, he said, was too great. The Navy was represented in all the seas of the world. The Grand I''lect cherishes the hope that some day it will meet the enemy fleet when it comes out. The mercantile marine had little opportunity to fight an invisible enemy. tlio submarine campaign, Sir John Jellicoe said: —"We can only say that the_ people can help the Navy by maintaining the strictest economy in consumption and the greatest output' of production."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Router.

HEROIC BRITISH SAILORS London, February 15. As showing the heroism of the men in the merchant service, the survivors of the Vedamoro, after a fearful experience, _in t which tlioy were exposed to the bitterest weather for ten hours, immediately re-engaged to go to sea. Similar happenings occur every day.— The "Times." THREE VESSELS SUNK n London, February 15. Tho latest submarine sinkings reported arelrishown Head (3050 tons), Endora (barque, 1991 tons), Cilicia (3750 tons). —Tho "Times. 1 ' NEUTRAL STEAMERS' SAILINGS / I ! (Rec. February 16, 9.55 p.m.) New York, February 15. Danish and Scandinavian steamers announce tho resuming of departures.— Reuter.

TORPEDOED TWICE. (Rec. February 16, 5.5 p.m.) ' London, February 15. A boat-load of survivors from the Azul lias landed. The men report that they took to the boats after being torpedoed, and wore picked Tip'by tlie sailer Eudora, which was also submarined. They tlion went in the latter's boats, and drifted for five days. A boat containing the Azul's chief officer and fourteen men parted company the first night, and are missing. Presumably they have been drowned—The "Times."