SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 4 May 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

GERMANY APOLOGISES. Received 8.40. BUENOS AYRES, May 3. A Gorman note to the 'Argentine apologises and offers reparation for the sinking of the steamer Monte Protcgido. THE SINKING OF THE BALLARAT TRAGEDY OP A STUTTERER. Received 8.40. LONDON, May 3. An amusing story is told in connection with the sinking of the transport Baliarat. It appears that the man was a stutterer who first saw the approaching torpedo, which struck before he could give warning. SINKING HOSPITAL SHIFS. REPRISALS JUSTIFIED. Received 9.15. LONDON, May 3.

In the House of Lords, Lord Curzon, replying to Lord Charles Beresford's protests against reprisals, said the Imperial Cabinet and the French Government endorsed the policy. The French had now decided to embark German prisoners on their hospital ships. Despite the reprisals we would emerge from the war with unstained hands, because some form of reprisals was justified where there was a possible chance of the enemy being prevented from repeating the crime. If Germany promises to refrain from attacks on hospital ships Britain would abandon reprisals.

TRANSPORT TORPEDOED. HEAVY LOSS OF LIFE. Received 10.20. The transport Arcadian was sunk in the Mediterranean on April 15. Two hundred and seventy-nine are dead. A JUSTIFIABLE SUSPICION. '/"'' LONDON, : May '2. ' In the House of Commons, Sir E. Carson stated that there was a suspicion that enemy submarines mostly came through neutral territorial waters. Shipping arrivals during the week wee 2716 and the sailings 2690. Thirtyeight vessels over 1600 tons were sunk. Twenty-four were unsuccessfully attacked. Eight fishers were sunk. ITALIAN REPORT. LONDON, May 2. Italian naval communique: For the week ending April 29th, 627 ships arrived and 521 left Italy. Three Italian steamers and seven sailers were sunk. SUBMARINE LOSSES. WILL BE PUBLISHED SOON.

BRITAIN CONCEALING NOTHING.

WAR BOUND TO BE A LONG ONE

Eeceivcd 11.30

NEW YORK, May 3

Lorj Northcliffe, interviewed by the United Press, made a statement that Britain would shortly publish the losses arising from submarines. They were not hiding any facts of importance connected with the war on land and sea, save those likely to benefit the enemy. While submarines were the strongest card Germany had played, they would never win the wai\ British official reports were perfectly frank, and there was no concealment of any losses, while the Germans wer e afraid to publish theirs. The German people do not yet know of the fall of Bagdad. The war was certain to be a long one, as the German mixture of science and brute force was not easily broken. The British were ready to settle the Home Rule difficulty. It lay entirely with Ireland itself. The provision of new secret war implements was under way in Britain. THE REPRISALS QUESTION. DEBATED IN HOUSE OP LORDS. LONDON, May 2. In the House of Lords, the Archbishop of Canterbury stjrongly protested against the policy of reprisals including Freiburg. The country was prepared to prosecute the war with all its power and every sacrifice, but it wanted to emerge from the war with untainted honour and clean hands. Lord Buckmaster, the Bishop of Winchester, and Lords Selbourne, Horeburn and Parmoor disapproved of reprisals on the ground of the danger that we would sink to "the level of the Germans. ,

Lord Curzon justified the Government's action. Germans were peculiarly open to this argument. They squealed like babies under reprisals. There was some evidence'that the repTlsal had had a salutary effect as only one hospital ship had been attacked since Freiburg was bombed. The subject dropped.