SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 15 June 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

U-BOAT SUNK

BY AMERICAN LINER

Received 8.55

NEW YORK. June 14

An American liner, on arriving, reported striking a submarine on May 19. It is believed the U-boat was sunk, two of which attacked the liner. THE WEEK’S RECORD. LONDON, June 13. The Admiralty reports: Arrivals during the week 2707; sailings 2822. Sinkings; Twenty-two over KiOOO tons, and ten under 10*00 tons. Unsuccessfully attacked, twenty-three. Fishers sunk G. ROME, June 13. Official.—For the week ending June lO'tli, 537 ships entered, and 498 departed. Five Italian steamers and five small sailers were lost.

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GURKO’S SUCCESSOR. PETROGSAD, June 14. General Denekins, cx-Chief of the General Staff has been appointed to the supreme command on the western front. He succeeds General Gurko. SEPARATE REPUBLICS DECLARED. Received 9.15. PETROGRAD, June 14. Though it is expected the Kronstadt mutineers will soon submit to the Government, their example has spread elsewhere. Reports from Tsaritsyn, Kherson and Yienanovoe. state that separate republics have been declared in those provinces. There is a reign of terror at Tsaritsyn; other towns are quiet.

(Kherson is situated in S.W. Russia, on the Black Sea coast, with an

area of 27,523 square miles and a popu lation of 1,500,000. It is a prolific grain growing district, and the chief town is Odessa. Tsaritsyn is a fortified town on the River Volga. It has a great transit trade by river. Population 50,000.) DISSATISFACTION AT FRANCOBRITISH REPLIES. Received 9.15. PETROGRAD, June 14. Many organs, especially Socialist papers, express dissatisfaction at the Franco-British replies to th e Russian Note. They complain of their ambiguous phrasing, and some interpret the replies as a direct refusal to accept the Russian platform. SEPARATE ARMY OF POLES. , . Received 9.15.PETROGRAD, (June 14. Delegates from Polish troops are discussing a proposal to raise a separate Polish army of half a million from Poles at present serving in the Russian Army. The deliberations are not yet cou eluded, but it is known an enormous majority of the delegates are in favour of the proposal.

AMERICAN MISSION ARRIVE,

Received 9.15

PETROGRAD, June 14

Messrs Elihu Root and Stevens, the representatives of the United States, have arrived. DETAILS OF THE KRONSTADT MUTINY. SAILORS WANT TO SENTENCE THE EX-CZAR. Received 11.55. PETROGRAD, June 14. Details of the Gargoot mutiny (cabled on the 11th June) show that the crews of the Rcpublica, Gargoot, and Diana notified that the Provisional Government must give the order to have the ex-Czar sentenced. The Go-

vernment took no notice of the crew of the Gargoot, who attacked Kronstadt. The Soldiers’ Council emphatically repeated the demand, threatening force if disregarded. The Government then stated they could not accede to the Gargoot’s exaggerated desires. Simultaneously the Petrograd Soldiers’ Council expressed a desire that the Czar should be condemned to forced labour in the mines: The Government consequently caused the garrison at Tsarekoye to be strengthened.

exchange of prisoners im- , PRACTICABLE. Received 11.55. LONDON, June 14. In the House of Commons, Mr. Hope said the Cabinet had decided that a general exchange of British and German prisoners was impracticable, owing to the exorbitant demands of Germany,