SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 May 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

FRENCH PASSENGER STEAMER SUNK. Received 11.40 a.m. PARIS, May 24. Official: The steamer Sontay, with 81 « of a crew and 344 passengers, was torpedoed en route from Salonika to, Marseilles. Forty-five perished, including the commander. BRITISH TRANSPORT TORPEDOED 413 LIVES LOST. Received 9.30. <r ; _ ’ LONDON, May 25. The Admiralty reports that the British transport Transylvania was torpedoed in the Mediterranean on May 4, and 413 lives were lost. BRITISH WEEKLY REPORT. LONDON, May 23.

Arrivals during the week were 2054 rind sailings 2759. Eighteen vessels over •ihjOO tons and nine under 1000 tons were sunk. Nine were unsuccessfully attacked. Three fishers were sunk.

ITALY’S WEEKLY RECORD. BRISK SHIPPING AND NO LOSSES ROME, May 23. Foar hundred and sixty merchantmen entered Italian ports during the week ending the 20th, and 387 left. No steamers were sunk. One was shelled and damaged. i ON XEE SEA. HEAVY FIRING IN SOUTHERN BALTIC. COPENHAGEN, May 24. Received 11.40 a.m. Heavy firing has been heard since last night in the Danish Island, Holland and Falster, in the Southern Baltic, in the direction of the German coast. r_ ' REQUSITIONTNG SHIPS. T * Received 8.50 a.m +f . AMSTERDAM, May 24. The Dutch Government has requisitioned 100,000 ship tonnage to bring wheat from America..