NEW PIRATE ZONE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 52, 24 November 1917, Page 7

NEW PIRATE ZONE

GERMANY EXTENDS SUBMARINE DANGER LIMITS

MEDITERRANEAN ALSO

INCLUDED

Gopenhagon, November 22. Germany has announced an enlargement of tho blockade zone round England and France as from to-day. It affects Iceland, the Faroes Islands, and traffic on the Spanish coast; aifd also deals with the Azores; while tho hitherto free zone in the Mediterranean will be included in the blockaded area. The memorandum declares that tho new measures have been taken to prevent the Allies using neutral tonnage to relieve their own 1 shortage of ships.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

A GERMAN OFFICIAL STATEMENT

(Rec. November 23, 8.50 p.m.)

London, Novemher 22. . A German official statement, explaining the extension of the barred zones round England and France, j.nd the establishment of a barred zone pt the Azores, says: "Our enemies are securing the services of noutral tonnage by all kinds of pressure, including the tightening of the starvation blockade against neutrals. We are therefore oompellcd to extend our submarine operations against England's unscrupulous tyranny, which ignores all ri'chts, especially those of the smaller nationfl. Our widening of the zones will chiefly affect that encircling England, and aims a blow at traffic which is becoming increasingly important to England. The Azores are important as an economic and military base on the Atlantic route. Moreover, ths Mediterranean Channel to Greece henceforth will be closed, inasmuch as the Venizfilist Government uses it less for supplying people with food than for coiiveyine weapons and amnmaition." — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter.

ATTACKS ONJJEUTRAL SHIPPING TWO STEAMERS LOST. Copenhagen, November 22. The Danish steamer Adolph Anderson was sunk by a submarine at the entrance to tho Channel. One of the crew was killed. The Norwegiau steamer Staerkoddor was sunk by a mine off tho west coast of Norway. All the crew were lost.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.