SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 June 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

SUBMARINE FLEET INCREASING. GERMANY STRAINING EVERY NERVE. Received 8.55. LONDON, June 27. The German Admiralty announces that the German submarine fleet is steadily increasing in strength, the new boats outnumbering the losses. The Press reveals that Germany is straining every nerve to augment her submarine strength, announcing that the Government has requisitioned oil electrical machinery apparatus and motors.

SPANISH AFFAIRS. ALFONSO ON A SHAKY .THRONE. ... . LONDON, June 26\ The position in Spain remains clouded. The military explains that it has instituted a censorship' in order to allay prevailing uneasiness. Newspapers are prohibited from publishing news regarding the army or proclamations, strikes or tprped-oings, and are debarred from commenting on the war. The Government has filled Barcelona with soldiers, and is controlling other revolutionary centres under martial law.

The "Daily Mail's"'Madrid correspondent says that the insurrectionary movement has been scotched, not killed, and may reassert itself at any moment so strongly that the dynasty may have to go. It is stated that King Alfonso only saved his crown during the crisis by the, celerity with which he conceded demands. The majority of the politicians were tired of Alfonso and his clique and agreed that they must go before long.

Summarising . the causes of. the i late I revolt, it is said that although Alfonso I and the Government capitulated and released implicated officers, the army suspects they will go back on their word at the first favourable opportunity and banish and imprison the leaders and officers of the committee of defence. Therefore the army is on its guard. Politicians are endeavouring to make capital of the situation. The left party is solidly supporting a change of regime and is determined, when strong enough, to depose the monarch and proclaim a republic. Senor Maura is considered likely to head the revolutionary movement. ON THE SEA. THE MONGOLIA. SUNK BY A MINE. LONDON, June 26. It is announced that the Mongolia struck a mine and sank off Bombay at noon on Saturday. Her mails were lost. IN EGYPT. NEW PALESTINE ATTACK. ITALIANS TO HELP. LONDON, June 26. Baron Sonnino (Foreign Minister), speaking in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, said that the Italians would participate in a new and vigorous Britis-h expedition in Palestine. GERMANY COMPENSATES HOLLAND. FOR SEVEN SHIPS TORPEDOED. Received 8.55. THE HAGUE, June 27. Official: Germany has agreed to cede a number of German ships now in the Dutch East Indies of a value equivalent to the seven vessels torpedoed and to compensate the crews lost in the ships.