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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 338, 15 November 1915, Page 7

x - SUBMARINE SUPPLIES. GERMAN NAVAL INTRIGUE IN NORWAY. A remarkable story of how at East one German submarine got supplies while at sea appears in an artic o in the Lokal Anzeiger under the signature of F. Stock, who, writing of a visit to Aalesund, a (Norwegian fishing town is allowed, under the glamour of toe submarine's exploits, to tell some cutting truths about the attitude of the Nor- ! wegians towards the Germans, writes a Rtoterdam correspondent of the Daily News. NORSE ATTITUDE TO GERMANY. Aalesund, it will be remembered, was burnt out in 1902, an ! the Kaiser, under the guise of charhv, greatly interested himself in its re-erection. A grateful but smiple people thereupon raised a statue to him. Curiously enough, however, these fisher folk now turn the conversation when the Kaiser is mentioned, and openly accuse the Germans of deliberately having planned to make Norway a base in a war gaainst Britain. “i found them more reserved towards Germans than before,” writes Her’’ Stock, who has visited the place ngifiar’y since 1902. “When the convmsation was turned upon the Kaiser it was not continued, but broken off with some slight excuse. Even officials who were well known to me, and who in ordinary times would gladly bear anything from the great Fatherland, were this time silent or murmured something about ‘German cruelties,’ ‘A breach of their word,’ or ‘Despised reatra’ity,’ and ‘Downtrodden Belgium.’ T n | a word, the feeling was not frienUy I towards Germany. Sympathy showed iisoL decidedly towards the west.” DUNS AT HOME IN NORWAY. The writer then records how he saw a sailing vessel preparing to put sea with supplies for the lighthouse on the Run do, and how a casual invitation ] to make the journey was accepted. “I I asked my old friend the skipper if, in ! going so far out to sea, he was not I | afraid of the German ships. He re- [ piled, ‘They will not think we are I taking the stuff to Hull. The German I fleet has behaved for such a long time as K it were at home here. Their sail- | ors have marched down our streets, I then officers have held balls and fesi j tivalg in our fiords, and German sail- | ors have often enough disturbed Eng- | lish tourists.’ ” The writer pointed uot that Norway j owefi much of her trade to the Kaiser, i and urged that many visitors went i there to see their fleet. | “Yes, that is so,” said the skipper, “but it is necessary to use 'Norway to obtain information? Every Norwegian knows the object of the Germans, In a war with Britain our fiords would afj ford splendid points of support for j your fleet. That was your object. Why I are our neutral waters to be used as theatres of battles? Who will guarantee us that our coast places will not suffer? Everybody is full of fear of the Germans.” ROBBING A LIGHTHOUSE, j “Suddenly we saw the periscope of a j submarine approach us at a great speed i and 1 had just enough time to hope it j was not a British one when one of the j men on board hailed us in English,and I 1 recognised that the voice came from j a German thorat. We obeyed the order i to stop, the sail was lowered, and 1 ac U ' ed ns interpreter whilst the captain of of the II boat bargained for the caigo intended for the Igihthouse. The skipper was furious at the suggestion, sayin he would be punished. “You will have no trouble with, .voux neutrality," said the submarine captain; “the English will never know. No cock will crow about it in Rundo, and anyhow they will not be sitting in the . dark this time of the year. In two ] ! flours you can bo back to got another cargo.” “The captain offered a sum above all the expectations ot the skipper, vith 190 marks as reward in addition. It J t was impossible fer the skipper not to J j agree tc such favourable conditions, al- J c though he looked crusned. | a ‘He took the gold, and the submar- 11 hie. which, had aiready sunk an Eng-1