U-BOAT "CRUISER" SUNK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 213, 28 May 1918, Page 5

U-BOAT "CRUISER" SUNK

A HINT OF BRITISH ACTIVITY

EXCUSABLE DEPARTURE FROM

THE RULE

London, May 26. Tho Admiralty reports: "One of our Atlantic escort submarines reports that oil IMay 11, in Ihc latitude of Cape St. Vincent, she sank a German submarine of tho so-called "cruiser" typo. There were no survivors. Another enemy submarine was sighted, but escaped by diving swiftly. As this was the first "cruiser submarino" destroyed, it was decided to depart from tho rule of not announcing tho destruction of individual enemy submarines."— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Afisn.-fieuter. AMERICAN TRANSPORT RAMS SUBMARINE London, May 26. A loaded American transport, going to France, rammed a submarine. Tho eteauicr was travelling at 25 knots at tho time. She saved eighteen of tho crew of tho submarine.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable A6sn. ACTIVE MEASURES IN SPAIN ADEQUATE "INCENTIVE FOR TCEPBISALS. Madrid, May 26. Thfl German submarino UGS tottered Sanlander with somo of her crow wounded and her motors badly damaged. Tho simultaneous arrival of two submarines in Spanish ports is regarded as proof of tho activity of the Spanish patrols, and also that the high seas nro becoming more dangerous for submarines. German submarines have bunk 67 Spanish 6liips, totalling 150,000 tons, and have killed 52 Spaniards. These figures have created widespread indignation. The German submarine U4B, which was interned at Ferrol in March, attempted, to escape. A Spanish cruiser stopped her, and tho authorities disembarked the crow and dismantled tho en-gines.—Ans.-N.JS. Cable Assn.

THE BLOCKING OF OSTEND AND ZEEBRUGGE PASSAGE OPENED AT OSTEND. London, May 26. Tho Germans have succeeded in shifting tho position of the Vindictive _ at Ostend, leaving a passage barely sufficient (or a largo destroyer, but the harbour is at present unused. Attempts were made at Zeobrugge, but fruitlessly, to dredge a passage between the two sunken cruisers. Tho Bruges basin is full of ships, and-many have been sent back to Germany. The effect of the blockage on the submarino campaign is not yet visible.— "Tho Times." THE BRITISH "SEAMEN'S BOYCOTT ONE .MONTH FOE- EVERY CRIME. London, May 20. Mr. Havelock Wilson, speaking in tho Albert Hall, said that the seamen were adding a month to tho boycott for every fresh German crime. The boycott now totalled iivo years and eight months, including two months for the recent deliberate bombing of hospitals. .Ihis meant that 250,000 British oiulors were pledged not to tolerate a German aboard a British ship nor to take a, British ship to a German port during Ue period ot tho boyeott.-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.