BREMEN TAKEN IN STEEL NET.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 205, 7 October 1916, Page 5

BREMEN TAKEN IN STEEL NET.

The feat of the German submarine Deutschland making the double trip between Germany and the United States has been somewhat stultified by the mystery surrounding the sister commercial submersible Bremen, which, with a great characteristic flourish of trumpets German-Americans had heralded as being due to arrive "in a few days" in some phantasmagoric American port on a similar errand to the Deutschland.. Week after week passed, and then even the patience of the Teutons in America began to flag. Various rumours had gained currency in the United States that the Bremen A\as not likely to ararrivo in 'American waters at all, as it had become a victim to the ever-wateh. ing warships of the British Navy. T-he arrogant section of Germans had pooh-poohed these reports until August 25, when an officer of the British merchant marine arrived in New York aboard the White Star steamship Bailtic, and was authority for the statement that the Bremen had been captured by the British and 33 of .her crew of 35 made prisoners. The Teuton Americans were disconsolate, and much of the wind was taken out of their sails. The Bremen, according to the account, was captured in tlie Straits of Dover in a steel net on August 2. Two members of her crew lost their lives. The Bremen, it was said, while enmeshed in the net, was sighted by a British patrol boat, her stern under water and -her bow high above the surface. After endeavouring for a time to extricate the wreck, the patrol boat steamed for Dover with her prisoners.

According to the officer, who desired that his identity should not be disclosed, the British Government has maintained silence in regard to the capture, as another German transatlantic submarine, America, was said to be on the way to the United States, and it was hoped to capture her also.