SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 7 June 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

. TORPEDOED AND SUNK. PARIS, June 5. The Messageries Maritimes' Yarra was torpedoed and sunk on May 29, in the eastern Mediterranean. There were 690 aboard, of whom 56 are missing. UNCLE SAM BAGS A SUBMARINE. FIGHT LASTS NINETY MINUTES Received 10.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, June 6. The State Department is officially advised that an American aranod merchant man sunk a submarine. They fought for ninety minutes, the 25th shot piercing the submarine, whose stern rose out of the water and then sank. The Navy Department is convinced that the submarine has been bagged. The submarine flew no flag. PRISONERS OF WAR. LONDON, June 5. In the House of Commons, the Post-master-General stated that British prisoners in Germany totalled 42,831. German prisoners in the United Kingdom were 51,138. I

RUSSIA FATE OF RUSSIA DEPENDS ON KERENSKY. PEOPLE WANT PEACE AT ANY PRICE. SOCIALISTS' SPECIOUS STATEMENT. Received 10.55. LONDON, June 6. Mrs. Pankhurst is going to Russia with the Government's permission. PETROGRAD, June 6. Kerensky has returned. He intended to visit Minsk and Riga, but the Kronstadt crisis and Konovaloff's economic and financial difficulties necessitated his immediate return. The people desire peace at almost any price. When Kerensky urges a vigorous offensive the Socialists reply that to attack Germany when she is on the eve. of a revolution would serve the interests of Kaiserdom. Kerensky's absence shows the fate of Russia depends on him alone. BERNE, June 6. The Germans have repatriated five -hundred Russians from Switzerland through Germany, most of whom have since become ardent supporters of the Provisional Government, desiring to crush Kaiserdom. Germany has notified she will convey no more to Russia. LIBERTY LOAN A FAILURE FIGHTING OX RUSSIAN FRONT GROWING IN INTENSITY.

PETROGRAD, June 6. Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan total a milliard roubles. The Daily Telegraph's Petrograd correspondent is of opinion that the loan is a comparative failure, forcing the Government, to make a huge issue of bank notes. The working classes charge capitalists with not supporting the loan, thus forcing the use of paper money.. As a result the rouble.. will fall still lower, the cost of living rise' higher, and the workers be forced to make still higher demands. The, .official organ of the Workers' and Soldiers' delegates demands that the Treasury take excess profits and heavily tax incomes and property. Meanwhile enthusiasm is being aroused by Kerensky's speeches and fighting on the front is growing in intensity. JAPAN WARNS RUSSIA. NEW YORK, June (5. The Times Washington correspondent has learned that Japan has, informed the Russian Government that if Russia withdraws, Japan, in consultation with Britain, will consider what measures to take. She is determined to stand by the Allies until Germany is defeated. She warns Russia that if she makes a separate peace she will become help* lessly under German domination. Anglo-Japanese diplomats at Petrograd are believed to be convinced that the Provisional authorities will stand fastj but the danger lies in the ignorant masses clamourng for bread and ready for plunder and anarchy. Japan does not claim an interest in Europe, but. realises that Russia's decision will affect Japan's situation in the Orient. TEACHING THE RUSSIANS VALUE OF STATE INTERVENTION. Received 9.5 a.m.

j PETROGRAD, June 6. ( Mr. Arthur Henderson attended a meeting of the Provisional Government, and reported the effect of State intervention in British commerce and industry, and showed the useful results obtained in England by wise and systematic State intervention. RUSSIAN POLAND. IN THE GRIP OP FAMINE. BERNE, June 5. The whole of Russian Poland is gripped by famine, which is especially acute at Warsaw, Lodz and other industrial centres. The Polish State Council has appealed to the German authorities to take urgent measures to avoid a catastrophe. There are hundreds of deaths daily from lack of food. 1,,- —• SHAMING THE RUSSfAN SOLDIERS. REGIMENT OF WOMEN TO GO TO THE FRONT. Received 9.5. PETROGRAD, June 0. Awomaa named Britoniart, who entered the ranlfcs as a man and •won trie St. George's Cross, ss raising a righting regiment of women to proceed to the front •Immediately. Rodzianko approves o£ the scheme, which aims at shaming the Russian men into a more active fraznti oi 1 minfl.

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. ACADEMIC DISCUSSION. GERMANY ON PEACE PROSPECTS AMSTERDAM, June 5. The Cologne "Gazette" semi-offi-cially says those who thought that peace zephyrs were blowing, must change their minds after Prance's declaration that territories must be evacuated. The call from Paris again summons the belligerents to arms. Any peace discussion must be only academic. FRENCH WAR AIMS. PARIS, June 5. An order of the day, the outcome of the secret session, declares that France expects from th e war the liberation of invaded territories, the return of Alsace-Lorraine, and just reparation for damage, apart from any thought of conquest or subjection of foreign peoples. The order further considers that the efforts of the Allied armies will break down Prussian militarism and secure durable guarantees of the peace and independence of small and great peoples by the organisation of a Society of Nations. Only Socialists voted against the resolution. M. Ribot, the Premier, asked the Socialists to vote for the order, to show the world that the manoeuvring which • r iad taken place to break up the unity of France had not succeeded. DENMARK'S DESPERATE CONDITION. Received 10.55. COPENHAGEN, June 6.

A commission of the most prominent representatives of Danish trade and industry are visiting foreign countries to negotiate with the belligerents on important questions regarding the conditions of life in Denmark, which is -on the verge of a catastrophe,' and is suffering much hardship as if she had. been, a belligerent.

I*T CHINA

ELEVEN PROVINCES DECLARE, INDEPENDENCE. TIENTSIN, June 5. Eleven provinces -have declared independence. Nich Shin Chun's Anhui troops are within twenty-five miles of Tientsin. Changsolin has reached an understanding with Feng Lin Ko and anoather Manchurian leader, whereby they have commandeered cars for the transport of troops to Pekin. It is believed that Chang Sung, w-hose attitude has been hitherto doubtful, desires the restoration of the Manehu dynasty. It is doubtful if the other generals. will agree. GENERAL CABLES IMPERIAL MINERAL RESOURCES BUREAU TO BE ESTABLISHED LONDON, June 5 The War Cabinet appointed a committee to prepare a scheme for establish ing an Imperial mineral resources bureau to collect, information as to the Empire's mineral resources and metal requirements and to advise as to the methods of development. The comittee includees Lord Islington, Sir Thom r as Mackenzie (New Zealand) ,Hon. W. S. Robinson and the Hon. W. P. Schrein or (South Africa), Hon G. H. Pcr-ley (Canada.)

MAILS FOR THE FRONT. STUPENDOUS FIGURES Received 9.5 a.m. LONDON, .Tune 0. It was stated in the House of Commons the army post office employs over four thousand men, dispatching weekly nine thousand bags of parcels and forty thousand bags of letters, containing about nine hundred thousand parcels and over ton millions letters. They are receiving weekly eight million letters. BRITAIN'S FINANCIAL STRENGTH LONDON, June 5. Since the war Post Office applications for the War Loan, Exchequer bonds, and war savings certificates total 191 million. This did not affect the savings bank deposits, which were now £185,400,000, compared with £188,000,000 in th.? previous year. The figures are a remarkable tribute to the financial strength of the country. .. MASSACRES IN PALESTINE. .. MADRID, Jur The Germanophile press publishes an official note inviting the Government to nominate a commission to j ■verify the incorrectness of reports about the alleged massacres of Jews in Palestine. .. *•."'•

STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR MEHRING. Received 9.5. ZURICH, June 6. The international section of the German minority of Socialists refuses to attend the Stockholm Conference. Mehring, the leader, explains to the Russians that he refuses to attend ihe same conference as Scheidemann. IRISH AFFAIRS. IRISH CONVENTION. LONDON, June 5. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law said the Government had completed the Irish Convention and was now awaiting the decision of some parties who had been invited to participate. LONDON. June 6. The Ulster Unionist Council has been summoned on Friday to discuss the Convention.