ON THE SEA.

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

ON THE SEA.

BATTLE WITH SUBMARINES. rTWO OF THE PIRATES SUNK. TWO NORWEGIAN STEAMERS LOST. Received 10.15. CHRISTIANIA, Sept. 19. The Tidcns Tegn states that an armed steamer, either British or American sank a German submarine wli® it was shelling a neutral sailer off the Shet- | lands. During the fight a second submarine 'submarined attacked steamer. A British destroyer sank the second submarine and rescued six of the survivors. Two Norwegian steamers, the Facto, and the Thomas Krag, have been submarined. Two from each of the crews wore lost. ARGENTINE. STRIKES IN ARGENTINE. RAILWAYS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 18. The railway strike is disturbing the economic life. On the Cordoba Central Railway strikers have torn up the line and wrecked the rolling stock and signal boxes on the stations. They dei ailed a troop train. The managers of the English and French lines are considering the necessity of a lockout. FRENCH NATIONAL AIMS. NEW PRIME MINISTER’S STATEMENT REPARATION AND COMPENSATION. PARIS, Septebmer 19. In the Chamber of DepuAs M. Pain leve announced the new Government's policy. He said the Government was giving all its attention to the assemcling of all the forces of the nation for the supreme phase of (.he war. He emphasised the fact th-vi t 1 e nearer the end came the more essential it was to look towards a victory that would be of moral assistance to the nation. The enemy would be mable to conquer <n the battlefield, and were about to redouble their efforts. The Government must redouble its vigilance against those insidious plans. Whoever made himself an accomplice of the enemy must suffer the full rigour of the law. No enemy manoeuvre and no individual wcaknes would turn France from her unshakeable ciet Tminotion to achieve the restoraci »;i of Alsace and Lorraine, reparation /or the damage and ruin wrought, and a peace containing no germ of future wars, hut in which there would be effective guarantees to protect th> socitey of nations against aggression on the part of one amongst them. These were the aim s of France, and ns long as these were unatta'ne.l France must continue to fight wPh the co-ordina-tion necessary among the Allies. They must act as if they were a single nation, with a single army on a single front. All must equally contribute men, arms, and money. Only on this condition would their superior forces become crushing.. Such a policy will allow France, without exhausting herseH to meet her economic and military needs. Referring to after war problems, M. Painleve said they would have to restore the conquered districts, regulate the return of soldiers to normal life, thus avoiding a crisis in unemployment, increase their production and national credit, establish a fiscal system on just and bold lines ; and embody as a part of their social life the reforms recently introduced between the workmen and the employers.