On the sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 79, 9 March 1916, Page 5

On the sea

THE MOEWE’S MOVEMENTS. OUT AND HOME. iUNIT»O JDUSSf* AhsooiaxiomJ (Received 3.30 a.m.) London Man!) 8. Mr Balfour, in the House of Commons said the Moewe eluded the patrols on leaving Germany and succeeded in returning round the north of Iceland. GERMAN BLUFF. ■■ (Received 11.45 a.m.) i Washington March 8. Germany has offered the United States to govern its submarines in accordance with international law provided the other belligerents do not violate international law. WHITE PAPER DISCLOSURES. ARABIC AND BARALONC CASES. London, March 7. In a White Paper containing AngloGerman correspondence, through the American Ambassador, Mr Page, the German Government traverses Sir Ed,;;ia Grey’s Mots’of the fourteenth of December. It maintains that the Arabic was sunk in self-defence, and declines to submit the case to a court composed of American naval officers as the investigation by German authorities is sufficient guarantee of impartiality. Britain met the demand (or reparation in the Baralong case with empty excuses, and rendered herself responsible for a crime against the law of nations and the principle of humanity, and as Britain refused reparation Germany was obliged to retaliate. Sir E. Grejv-on February.,replied thati the German version of the Arabic was contrary to the most trustworthy evidence. CONCEALING SUBMARINES. London, March 8. The Daily Mail correspondent at Copenhagen says that the new German submarines are fitted with an apparatus to make waves a distance from the boat 1 to conceal its exact position.