ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 August 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THB CITY OF ATHENS SUNK. ■' STRUCK AMINE. ■ i TWENTY LIVES LOST. Received 10.30. WASHINGTON, August 13. The State Department- announces that fifteen passengers and five of the crew were lost when the American steamer City of Athens was sunk after striking a mine off Capetown, including four missionaries and an Englishman named Nuckworth, with his wife and five children.

AMERICAN OIL TANKER SUNK. CAPTAIN AND FOUR MEN IMPRISOSED. Received 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 13. The Navy Department announced that the American tanker Compana was sunk by U-boats about eight miles off the Isle Dien, on the French coast. Fifty survivors were landed. The captain and four gunners were imprisoned in the U-boat, and it is feared they will suffer a similar fate to Captain Fryatt. STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE. FRENCH SOCIALISTS' VIEWS. PARIS, August 12. The administrative committee of the Socialist party has adopted a motion to send ten delegates to the Stockholm Conference. They are instructed not to seek peace by a compromise which would leave the people's destinies at the mercy of fresh wars, but to make plain the belief that respect for all people's rights, respect for treaties and submission of all possible matters of conflict to the nation's' adjudication can alone form a basis of acceptable i peace.

WHY FRENCH WILL ATTEND

PARIS, August 12,

The French Socialists declare that they are going to Stockholm to ask all Socialists, whether they condemn the Governments responsible for the Avar, and act against them in order to shorten the war. They will also demand that the Socialists shall compel the Governments which still refuse to agree thereto to state their war aims, and also to inquire whether the Socialists who persist in supporting the culpable Governments shall remain members of the international party.