SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 April 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK.

NO WARNING GIVEN.

Received 9.55.

LONDON, April 13. The hospital ship, Gloucester Castle was sunk without warning. A CUBAN DENIAL. Received 11.40. HAVANA, April 13. Cuba denies that there are submarines In Cuban waters.

STILL MORE SHIPPING.

AMERICA’S BIG PURCHASE,

Received 9.55,

CHRISTIANIA, April 13

Norwegian shipowners have sold to America 200,000 tons of shipping that is being built in America, yards. The newspaper, Dagbladet, urges arming all Norwegian merchantmen, GERMAN RAIDER SIGHTED. OFF AMERICAN COAST. Received 11.40. NEW YORK, April 13. Galveston reports that a German raider was sighted off the mouth ,of the Yucatan Channel. HOSPITAL SHIP MINED. SCHOONER SUNK. COLD-BLOODED MURDER. Received 11.5. LONDON, April 13. The hospital ship Salta was mined in the Channel. Fifty-two perished, but the "hospital ship Gloucester Castle’s wounded were saved. PARIS, April 13. The sinking of the schooner Leontine on March 25 was particularly atrocious. The schooner stopped, but the submarine fired forty shells, killing four and wounding three. Germans boarded with bombs, and found the boatswain and cabin boy wounded. B'oth appealed to the Germans not to blow up the schooner because they would die. The German officer shot the boy. Five survivors clung to the wreckage and were saved.

SUNK IN THE CHANNEL. PATROL VESSEL MINED. LONDON, April 12. The Admiralty reports that a patrol vessel was mined and sunk in the Channel. Two officers and fourteen men are missing.