ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 17 January 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

RUSSIAN SUBMARINE ACTIVE. SINKS TWO VESSELS. Received 10.50. LONDON, Jan. 16. -V Russian wireless official message states: One of our submarines sank two ships near the Bosphorus.

SUBMARINE WARFARE. VIENNA, Jan. 15. The steamer Zagre has been submarined off Dalmatia. Twenty-six were lost; SUBMARINE RELEASED. FLUSHING, Jan. 16. The German submarine which was seized in Dutch waters strayed there in a fog. It has now been released and sailed.

GERMAN EXPERTS’ OPINION. ON FUTURE SUBMARINE WAR. Received 11.45. LONDON, Jan. 1(5. While many naval writers say Germany is seeking to lull the hunger revolt by inspired statements that British merchantmen! will be swept from the seas in the spring, Captain Perseus, in the “Berliner Tageblatt’’ says a more serious submarine war with greater difficulties must be faced. The enemy ’s merchantmen will be more strongly armed, and as the skill of the captains in repelling attacks increases the number of the enemy’s instruments for the destruction will become greater. It is a sin against the people to say starve England by a turn of the hand. A\e cherish the expectation that the enemy will not be able to adapt themselves to the intensification of the economic war, but the future conceals who will hold out longest.