SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 20 June 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

PIRATE SUNK BY JAPS.

LONDON, June 18

The Admiralty announces that a j Japanese torpedo flotilla attacked, and it is believed sank, an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean on Tuesday. NORWEGIAN LOSSES. COPENHAGEN, June IS. During the war the Germans nave submarined 562 Norwegian ships, of : a total tonnage of 800,000, and 581 j men and and women have been killed. Furthermore, the fate of many ships is unknown. It is estimated that the Norwegian merchant fleet has altogether lost about a million tons and 600 or 700 lives. SINKING OF THE CAMERONIAN. LONDON, June 18. An enemy submarine sank the British transport Cameronian on June 3 in the Eastern Mediterranean. A small number of troops were aboard. Fifty-two of the troops and eleven of the crew, including the captain, are missing. THE DOVER CASTLE CRIME. PARIS, June 19. Survivors from the hospital ship Dover Castle, which was torpedoed on May 29th, have arrived. They state that the ship was sunk on a beautiful calm night. The first warning was an explosion and the ripping of a great hole, killing six men in the stokehold. A comrade dragged out another fireman with a broken jaw and shoulder, and covered with bruises and cuts from head to foot. Officers and doctors, with the utmost courage, directed rescue work. There were ; 600 wounded men, many being armless, hobbling and swathed in bandages. Great relief was experienced when it was announced that all -had been transferred. No nurses were aboard the ship. The Dover Castle dived, bow first, after the second torpedo. AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS. LONDON, June 18. In introducing the Austrian Budget, the Finance Minister withheld the figures on the grounds that the enormous deficit would create a painful impression. The extraordinary figureless Budget was coldly received. GERMANY'S INTERNAL TROUBLES. GERMAN HARVEST FAILS. AMSTERDAM, June 18. The newspaper "Ribe Siftstidende" says that it is impossible that the German harvest can be good, even if the weather changes. The longdrought has had a bad effect, and the harvest will be nearly destroyed" unless rain falls soon. A GERMAN LAMENT. AMERICA'S ENTRY INTO THE WAR. MAKES EXTRAORDINARY IMPRESSIONS ON NEUTRALS. Received 8.45 a.m. | AMSTERDAM, June 19. The Socialist paper "Vorwaerts" laments the deprecition of the German mark, one hundred of which is now only worth sixty-five Swiss francs or thirty-five Dutch florins. The paper comments on the fact that the entry of the United States of America into the war has made an extraordinary impression on neutral countries. Improvement is impossible so long as Germany wages war against a league aiming at her destruction.