ENEMY'S NAVAL FORCES OUT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3043, 2 April 1917, Page 5

ENEMY'S NAVAL FORCES OUT

GUN FIRING OFF LOWESTOFT , ANOTHER CUT-AND-ItUN AFFAIR (Rec. April 1, 6.5 p.m.) ■ London, March 31. 1 The Admiralty reports:. "During the night of March 28-29 firing was observed, off shore from Lowestoft: Our patrols went at full speed to the scene, but. nothing was seen of the enemy, who made off." An official report from Berlin states! "On tho night of March 28-29 parts of our naval forces cruised in the barred zone off tho south coast of England. Beyond the armed British steamer Mascotte, encountered! eight miles cast of Lowestoft, and sunk by gunfire, neither the enemy's fighting forces nor merchantmen were sighted. Seven men on board the Mascotto were taken prisoner."' i • The Admiralty points out that the only British Mascotte is unarmed. The above presumably refers ;to the patrol trawler . Mascot.—Aus.-N.Z. ' .Cable Assn.-Reuter. . . ' THE TORPEDOED UNION CASTLE ' LINER SURVIVORS' ORDEAL. ' 'London, March' 29.> . The Alnwick Castle, the day before, she was sunk, had rescued the crew of another torpedoed British ship.. The passengers and crews pf both vessels abandoned the Alnwick Castle in five boats, one of which landed on the Spanish coast with twenty-nine occupants (including one stewardess . and one child). Eight had died. The 'survivors are suffering from frostbite. Three other boat's were picked up during the week. One contained twentyseven, another, twenty-nine,.and the third twenty survivors and nve corpses, Tho remaining boat is not acoounted for yet. ' THREE BOATS MISSING. (Rec. April 1, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 31. ■ Tho Union Castle Line announces that three boats from the .Almrick Castle are missing—Renter. . ANOTHER BRITISH MINEFIELD' > IN THE NORTH SEA. (Rec. April 1, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 31. The London Gazette announces an extension of the mined!area in the North Sea. It will follow the limit of Dutch territorial waters.—Aus.-N.& Gable Assn. THE OTAKI'S GAIIANT FIGHT CAPTAIN SMITH KILLED: (Rec. April 1, 5.5 p.m.) London, March 31. Captain Archibald Smith, commander of the Otaki, was killed in the fight with the Moewe'. , He? was to have taken a position as Marine Superintendent for the New Zealand Shipparig Cbmpany irt New Zealand on the completion of the outward voyage—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. . . . J [Apparently tho ppulisned list ex ship's offioers supplied by _the compatty's offico in ZBslflJid was not accurate, in so far, at-least, as the nnina 0 f the captain was concerned. In ■the list the name , was given aa Captain Silba.] ASHAMED OF AMERICA ECHO OF THE LACONIA CRBIE. Vancouver, March 30. Mr. -Austen Hoy, whose mother.and sister was drowned in tho Lacoma, lias foresworn his American citizenship and joined the British Army, becausehe demanded that President 'Wilson should avengo the murder of his relative?, but received no reply to nis cablegram.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable'Assn. . GERMAN OFFICIAL CLAIMS FOR SUBMARINE EXPLOITS .. (Rec. April 1, 5.5 p.m..) Amsterdam, Maioli 31. Admiral von Capelle (head of the German Admiralty) ,claims that < 81,000 tons of shipping were sunk dunng February. Fewer submarmes wore lost than hail been anticipated.—Aus.-IN.£. Cahlo Assn./ . .. NEUTRALS AND THE PIRATES ANOTHER PROTEST FROM NORWAY. : (Rec; April 1, 5.5 p.m.) Chrlstiania, March 31. The Norwegian Government has again protested, against iE§ German submarine blockade.—Router. ■ v