LATE WAR NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 April 1917, Page 4

LATE WAR NEWS.

fPBB PJtESB ASSOCIATION.-—COPTBIGBTj, SUBMARINED. A Big List. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.) CHRISTIANIA, April lSth. The survivors of the torpedoed steam cr Pollus of 1196 tons who have arrived at Bergen stato that numbers of tho pasengers and crew jumped into the waiter. The submarine’s Commander threatened to shoot any attempting to board her. ATHENS, April 13. I A German submarine torpedoed the Greek steamer Nostros with a cargo ot flour for Greece, The crew were saved. The Government has protested to Germany. • COPENHAGEN, April 13. The Norwegian steamer Camilla, oi 2,456 tons, which was engaged by the Belgian Relief Committee, lias been sunk, although in possession of a German safe conduct order. A Norwegian steamer was also sunk under similar circumstances. WASHINGTON, April 13. The American ship Margarite was torpedoed in tho Mediterranean without warning. The crow were an an open boat for forty-nine hours. PARIS April 13. The sinking of the schooner Leontino on March 25th. was particularly ferocious. The schooner stopped but the submarine fired forty five shells, killing four of, tho crew and wounding three The Germans boarded tho vessels with bombs and found the boatswain and cabin boy wounded. Both appealed to the Germans not to blow up the ship because they would die. A German officer shot the boy. Five survivors ■ elung to the wreckage and were saved.

In CelebrationNEW YORK, April 14. Tire House adopted the war Loan unanimously. LONDON, April 18. The Americans in England will hold a dedicatory service in St. Paul’s Cathedral on April 20th to commemorate America’s entry into the war. King George. Queen Mary, Dr. Page (American Ambassador), members of tho Cabinet, and Overseas Delegates will attend. The Archibshop of Canterbury and Bishop of London will participate, and the Bishop of the Phillipines will probably prea'ch,