NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1707, 3 May 1917, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Captain Eric Danueli, of the Norwegian sailing .ship Hippolus, gives a striking' example, culled from his own experience, of the maimer in which the British Navy is carrying out its dangerous task in the blockade of Germany. Captain Danueli left with a cargo of oilcakes for Denmark (says the London Daily Express correspondent). At 10 o’clock a searchlight was turned on the ship. A heavy gale was blowing, and there was a terrible sea running', so never dreaming that his vessel would he hoarded in such dangerous circumstances, Captain Danneil went below. “Ten minutes later,’’ said Captain Danueli, “a gun was lived, so we braced the main yard hack. This brought us broadside on in the heavy seas, and our decks were awash. The British warship which had intercepted us then launched a boat, a task which in that: weather must have been very difficult; in fuel, I (bought it impossible to launch a hoal in such weather. When the hoal got near us, the waves were so high that sometimes it was high above our rail, and at others far below in the trough of Ihe sea. The attempt to hoard us was attended with the utmost danger, and in preventing the boat being dashed to pieces against our sides half a dozen oars were broken, and Ihe boat was nearly swamped, hut still Ihe bluejackets were quite merry through it ail. After a great deal of (rouble, and at considerable personal risk’, a British officer and four men succeeded in hoarding us. Subsequently I received a letter from the British lieutenant 1 hanking me for my kindness to his men and himself during their stay with us.