SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 3 July 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

THE HIMALAYA SUNK. PARIS, July 1. The steamer Himalaya, chartered by the Messagcries-Maritimes Company, was sunk at daybreak on June 22nd. CONFUSION OVER IDENTITY. SYDNEY, July 2. Some confusion has arsen over the cabled accounts of the sinking of the Himalaya. The first reports were taken to indicate it. was the P. and O. steamer. A Reuter message states the Himalaya was a Messagerics-Maritimes vessel chartered by the Government, and it is now generally accepted that the cable refers to the French boat of that name. U-BOAT BASE DISCOVERED. .SUPPLIERS SHOT AND OIL CONFISCATED. SINKINGS NOT UP TO EXPECTATIONS. Received 8.50. a.m. NEW YORK, July 2. The World states' that the officers of an American steamer arriving at an American port report that the British patrollers located the U-Boat base a fortnight ago. The U-Boat suppliers were shot and the oil and other supplies were confiscated It is believed the movements of Allied ships were reported by the UBoats from this base. The New York Herald 's Washington correspondent, says that at the termination of five months' unrestricted submarining, naval officers estimate the result is far short of Germany's programme of one million tons monthly. It declares the total tonnage lost during the first year does not exceed -four millions, while three millions have been constructed during the same period.

SOUTH AFRICA. THE REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT. Received 9.55. CAPETOWN, July 2. Mr. Hertzog, in a letter to the Dutch Press, hopes the proposed Republican Congress will be abandoned. The abandonment will prove the. Nationalists' respect for the feelings of Eng-lish-speaking peoples in South Africa, and that the suspicions regarding the Honourable intentions of the Nationalists are unfounded. NORWAY NORWAY'S GRIEVANCE. A GERMAN EXPLANATION. AMSTERDAM, July 1. The "North German Gazette" states that Hautenfels will shortly be prosecuted in Germany for contravening the Norwegian laws, and assure ■ the Norwegians that the explosives were not intended to be used in Norway, or against Norway's interests. It adds that the German authorities have opened an enquiry into the whole case, and the matter will be remedied as far as possible.

IN GERMANY. GERMANY GETS POOD SUPPLIES. WASHINGTON, July 1. An official statement, based on the figures compiled in England, (shows that Germany obtained from neutrals sufficient, food .'to ration the Entire German armeis on the East Front, also I sufficient fats to supply 11 million soldiers. Exports from the United States to neutrals make this possible. The efforts of neutrals to lighten the expected drastic embargo is believed to be causing delay in the actual embargo.