AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 19 July 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

GERMAN CAPTAIN REACHES GERMANY, Received 8.45. WASHINGTON, July 18. Captain Hirsch, who acted as the American agent of the Submarine Deutschland, is reported to have reached Germany. He is believed to have sailed from America in a schooner, was picked up by a submarine and taken to Germany. SUFFRAGETTE DEMONSTRATIONS Received 8.45. WASHINGTON, July 18. Sixteen suffragettes who demonstrated outside White House were fined 25 dollars or 60 days in the workhouse. The majority of the suffragettes decided to pay up the fines. The suffragettes include Mrs, Brannan, daughter of the late Charles Dann. ON THE SEA., CAPTURED MERCHANTMEN.

RICH PRIZE FOR BRITAIN.

LONDON, July 18. The German prizes constitute a rich capture. They a»» trim, serviceable craft, with valuable cargoes of coke, coal and provisions. None of the British ships were damaged. It is believed seventeen German vessels in two convoys left Rotterdam for Denmark at night. Twenty torpedo boats and destroyers surprised the second convoy. In addition to the four captured, it is understood that four were sunk, two driven ashore, and one ran ashore. Three escaped. Three returned to Holland.

THE HAGUE, July 17. The Government is inquiring whether the naval action at Pctten was within Dutch territorial waters, as some eye-witnesses aver. The public are taking the matter coolly. They hope the attack will end the traffic between Rotterdam and Emden. THE INTERNED GERMAN VESSELS. SHIPPING DUES DEMANDED. Received 8.45 a.m.

RIO DE JANIERO, July 18,

The GovernmdTfT has demanded that the German shipping companies pay eight million dollars as dues on interned vessels. Newspapers state that unless the payment is made within 24 hours the vessels will be seized. .A BIG NAVAL OFFENSIVE FORE-. SHADOWED. Received 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, July 18. The Tribune’s Washington correspondent states the sentiment in naval circles favours a great concerted naval offensive, even to the extent of attacking the bases, also a campaign against the U-boats. AN UNTRUE GERMAN STORY. Received 8.45. LONDON, July 18. A German communique falsely alleges that German seaplanes hit two destroyers escorting a number ,bf merchantmen near Hoofden Bank. THE STRANDED SHIPS. AMSTERDAM, July 18. The German ships stranded on the Dutch coast are hte Magdclen, Ablumenthal, and Lavinia, from Hamburg, and the Heidelberg from Bremen. A lifeboat brought, ashore two dead Germans and a number of wounded.