SUBMARINE WARFARE

Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1917, Page 3

SUBMARINE WARFARE

(Per Press Association— Cojiyri_fi

DESTROYER SUNK. ONLY 18 SAVED. • LONDON July 5. The Admiralty report a -British destroyer of tho old type was mined and sunk in the North Sea. Them r.ro only eighteen survivors. SUBMARINE PERIL BRITISH LOSSES. 'Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 4. The Admiralty reports: Arrivals for the week totalled 2745 and sailings 2846. Fifteen vessels over 1000 and live under 1600 tons were sunk. Eleven fishing vessels were sunk. 1 Sixteen sh.ps were unsuccessfully attacked. ITALIAN LOSSES.

ROME,' July 4. For tlie week ending July Ist. arrivals totalled 610 a n d sailings 540. Tho sinkings were: One steamer, eight small sailers and four fishing boats.

FRENCH LOSSES. PARIS, July 4. Merchantmen which escaped witrioup a fight during the first nnd second fortnights of June respectively are: First fortnight 5. second fortnight 2; torpedoed first fortnight 5, second fortnight 7. Merchantmen which escaped after a fight; First fortnight 9. second fortnight 4; sunk after a fight, first fortnight 1, second fortnight 1. Patrol boats had thirty-one fights With submarines during June seaplanes eight' and coast defences tnme. A SUBMARINE ATTACK. [“reuter’s” telegram.] (Received This Dnv at 12.25. p-'" > LISBON, July sth. The Minister of Marino announces

that German submarines had bomba'rdI ed Port Adelyadd at four in tho morning. A girl was killed and others injured. The forts fired on the submarines. ’ “U” BOAT WAR. GERMAN HOPES AND FEARS. (Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 5. The Germans have an increasing fear that the unrestricted submarine | oampaagn is a failure, though there js a frequency of the official declaration that all goes well. The- Minister of Marine, before the Central Committee 1 of the Reichstag, declared that, thanks t) 0 the “U” boats, the war would reach ■ a happy ending. lljMI ■■l