BLOCKADE-RUNNERS CAUGHT

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3140, 19 July 1917, Page 5

BLOCKADE-RUNNERS CAUGHT

FOUR GERMAN MERCHANTMEN ROUNDED UP SMART COUP BY BRITISHPATROL The High Commissioner reports:—. London, July 17, 3 p.m. The Admiralty reports:—"On Monday a number of German merchantmen were sighted in the North Sea. Disregat(fng signals, they made off in the direction of • the Dutch coast. Two reached the 6hore, badly damaged by gunfire. Four others were captured; two crews escaped and the others were made prisoner. The ships' captured were'the Pellworm (1370 tons), Drietzig (?), Mariehorn (1088 tons), and Heinz Blumberg (1226 tons). London, July 17. Tho Admiralty reports that a patrolling force in the North Sea yesterday sighted a number of German steamers. They disregarded orders to stop, and headed for the Dutch coaat, which, two reached badly damaged by our fire. Ther remaining four were captured and brought into port. The crews of two of tho vessels were taken prisoner; those of the other two abandoned their ships'and escaped.—Aus.-N.K. Cable Assn.-Heuter. A RICH PRIZE SERVICEABLE VESSELS "WITH PULU 1 CARGOES. (Rec. July 19, 1.20 a.m.) . London, July'lß. The German prizes constitute a. rich 1 capture. They are trim, serviceable craft, with valuable cargoes of coke, coal, and provisions. None of the British .ships were damaged. It is believed that seventeen German vessels, in two convoys, left for Denmark at night. Twenty torpedo boats and destroyers' surprised the second convoy. In addition to the four ships that w<?re captured, it is understood that four were sunk, two were driven ashore, one ran ashore, three escaped, and three returned, to Holland.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE STRANDED'VESSELS. Amsterdam, July 18. • The German ships which are stranded on the Dutch coast are the Magdalen, Ablumenthal, and Lavinia, from Hamburg, and the Heidelberg from Bremen. A lifeboat brought ashore two dead Ger-< mans and a number of wounded.—Aus.-< N.Z.. Cable Assn. ,

QUESTION bF TRESPASS IN FORBIDDEN WATERS. (Eec. July 18, 10.50 p.m.) The Hague, July 17. The Dutch Government is inquiring whether the naval action olf Petten (60 miles north of the Maas) ■ yas within TJutch territorial waters, as some eye-witnesses aver. The public is tak-, ing the matter coolly. It is. hoped that the attack will'end the traffic between Rotterdam and Emden.—A«s.-N.Z. Cable' Assn. [The Pollworm is an iron steamer of 957, tons gross register, and was built m 1880.' She belonged to the Hamburg-Manchee-' ter-Dampfsch Line, Paul Gunther. The Marie Horn is a steeL.vessel of 1217 ton 9 gross register, built in 1890, and owned by H. C. Horn, and registered in Lubeck, Germany. The Heinz Blumberg is a steel vessel of 122G tons, built in 1906, and belonging to Leonhard and B!umberg, and registered in Hamburg, Germany. The Dreitzig is not mentioned in Lloyd's.] " . :• HOLLAND EXERCISED OVER THE EMS ESTUARY GERMANS CLAIM PART OP BER TERRITORY. Amsterdam, July 17. There is considerable perturbation in Holland at the fact that Germany claims .the whole of the mouth of the River Ems, as is shown in the latest German General Staff map. The German navalauthorities have begun to exercise a quasi-jurisdiction over the mouth of the Ems—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • [It was reported last week that the Dutch newspaper "Telcgroaf" had asserted that tfho extension of the British danger stone in the North Sea in- 1 eluded the "safe' channel" left by Germany. This, it stated', was due to tho Germans misusing the _ channel in order to maintain communication with Heligoland Bight, Zeebrugge, and Rotterdam, ami the German harbours. Shipments of coal frome Rhineland and Westphalia, wfrich could not be transported on the Gorman railways, were sent to lkUerdam and from thence German ships conveyed them to Emden and Cuxhaven. Obviously Britain could not tolerate suoh practices. "It is Germany, not Britain) who should bo asked to change her method. The Ems estuary is a deep bay, theeast shore of which is German, and the west Dutch. The international boundary runs in an irregular line north-west; '■ tlu-nigh the bay.] A GLORIOUS ANNIVERSARY SOUTH AFRICA COMMEMORATES DELVILLE WOOD. (Rec. July 18, 10.50 p.m.) i Cape Town, July 17. Demonstrations were held throughout the Union on the anniversary of the fight' at Delville Wood, in whioli the South Africans were prominent. A great effort is being made to reinforce the South African Brigade, which is in danger of being withdrawn as a separate unit.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "~" V THE SLAYER OF COUNT STUERGH DR. ADLEIi TO BE GIVEN A CIVIL TRIAL. . (Rec. July 18, 11.45 p.m.) , Copenhagen, July 18. The Austrian Parliament has pardoned Dr. Adler to tho extent of giving him a civil trial, involving probably a short imprisonment.-Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [Dr Adler, in October last, shot Count Karl Stuergh, the then Austrian Premier, a man with a notorious record.) BRITISH FINANCE BILL (Rcc. July 18, 10.50 p.m.) London, July 17. The Finance Bill has been read a third Kmer-Ana-NA Oftbk ,