FOUL PLAY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 230, 17 June 1918, Page 6

FOUL PLAY

! THE SINKING OF THE KONINGEN iREGENTES j (Reo. June 17, 1.30 a.m.) T London, June IG. [ The Admiralty reiwrts that an area .Tvithin five 'miles of the position at i ; ..which the Koningen Eegentes was sunk has been carefully searched. No mines ; '• were found. "Wo swept up nine new ! ' German moored mines botween Juno 2 |' v and 7, in the traok used* only by Dutch ! • vessels employed on the repatriation of ;. British and German prisoners, and which ha'd been guaranteed safe conduct by • . the 'British and Gorman Governments, i Thes6 mines were not within'fifty miles j . of the position at which the -Koningen t' "• Regentes was sunk. It is clear that the xuines were laid to catch -the repatriation '.vessels-'on their passage west, and that the submarine which laid them remainh ■ ed on the route to sink ships on the ' eastern journey, if. as is proved to be the : -case, they had not been already , sunk •; . with British repatriated prisoners on ! board whilo on their way to Boston. It ! ■ is remarkable that on this occasion the 'number of German prisoners repatriated - should have been exceptionally small, K, ' 'being 67, and of these none were aboard | : ' the Koningen Regentes."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable I' rAssn.-Reuter.