SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 1 June 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

GERMANS DISCOURAGED. ENTENTE’S NEW MEASURES EFFECTIVE. ROME, May 30. Advices from Berne say it is rumoured that German}'’s submarine campaign will not be continued beyond the summer. The heavy losses under the En tentc’s new measures have caused great discouragement, and the Germans are beginning to realise that their hopes of the campaign are doomed to failure. ANOTHER POOR HAUL LONDON, May 31. The Admiralty reports arrivals for the week totalled 2719; sailings. 2765. Eighteen vessels over 1600 tons and one under 1000 tons were sunk. AWFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE TREVOS. Received 9.15 a.m.

LONDON, May 31

Before the Alnwick Castle was torpedoed on March 19th she picked up the crew of the torpedoed steamer Trevos, whose sufferings in nine days’ bitter cold weather, are narrated in an engineer’s diary: Third day—The chief cook died from exposure; storekeeper went mad. Fourth day: Boatswain and a passenger died. Fifth day: Threemore died. Sixth day; A cattleman jumped overboard and 1 was drowned. Seventh day: Two died from thirst and exposure. Niuth day: 'Another died. .The survivors were landed suffering terribly from frostbite, their feet and toes dropping, off. One succumbed. A baby was saved, bv the sacrifices of others, but subsequently died from meningitis.

BRAZIL AND GERMANY.

BRAZIL ABANDONS NEUTRALITY

RIO JANEIRO, May 30,

The chambers unanimously agreed to a Bill revoking neutrality, not merely during the German-Americ-an war but during the currency *of ' the war between the Entente and the Central Powers, also authorising the utilisation of German ships interned in Brazilian north ports.

BRITISH POLITICS POST-WAR CABINET. OTHER APPOINTMENTS ADVOCATED. LONDON, May 31. Newspapers recommend Mr*. Lloyd George to consider the formation of a Post-war Cabinet, and probably to retain therein members of the War Cabinet and foreign and colonial ministers, He should immediately appoint a Minister of Reconstruction to preside over a Reconstruction Board, t# which representatives of the Dominions and the Departments of Labour, Finance, Agriculture, Commerce Food, Shipping, Education, and Local Government would report frequently. A Director of Demobilisation ought iO be immediately appointed. Such a system should he promptly established to prevent dark days like those which followed Waterloo, when only 30,000 soldiers had to find civil employment. We are now dealing in millions, in every part of the Empire. Trade Unionism having improved the workers’ outlook, will not tolerate a lower standard of living.