SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 6 October 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

| GREAT LOSS OF U-BOATS. A SATISFACTORY Received 8.40. LONDON, October 5. The naval authorities state the sinkings of U-boats for the past quarter are greater than any previous quarter. BRITISH WARSHIP SUNK. LONDON, October 4. The Admiralty reports: The warship Drake, Captain Redcliffe ? was torpedoed on Tuesday off the north coast of Ireland. She reached harbour, and then sank in shallow water. An explosion killed one officer and eighteen men. The remainder were saved. (The Drake is an armoured cruiser, of 14,100 tons, completed in 1902. She is 500 ft .long, of 30,000 h.p. 5 and can steam 24 knots an hour. She carried two, 9.2 inch guns, sixteen 6 inch, and twelve 12-pounder quick-firing guns. The crew consists of 900 men, and the vesel cost about £1,000,000.) GERMANY’S NEIGHBOURS. AIM OF THE ALLIED EMBARGO. LONDON, October 4. Reuter’s Agency learns that yesterday’s export order, prohibiting the export of goods to Holland and Seandiavina, with the exception of printed matter, does not involve a new policy but is merely an extension of the principles hitherto followed. The Allies’ object is to require export licenses for all goods destined for Holland and Scandinavia with the_ exceptions mentioned. EMBARGO ON NEUTRALS. SERIOUS EFFECT IN DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, October 4. The stoppage of supplies of rawmaterial, consequent on the stricter blockade, has greatly increased unemployment. Many factories have closed. The Government has introduced an unemployed national relief Bill. BUNKER COAL PROHIBITED. Received 8.40. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. The State Department announces it has prohibited the export of bunker coal. This order prevents supplies to Germany by northern neutral nations. GERMAN RETALIATION.

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NEW October 5. It is reported that Germany is retaliating on the Allies’ embargo, and has offered neutrals grain, presumably from Russia and Roumania. SERVIAN OFFER TO BULGARIA Received 8.40. NEW YORK, October 5. The Servian Professor, Tovanovitch, declares that Servia offered to Bulgaria while the latter remained neutral practically all Servian Macedonia, including Monastir, but Bulgaria simply refused to consider overtures. SEPARATE PEACE {WITH FRANCS. HEARST’S STATEMENT. Received 8.40. WASHINGTON, October 5. W. R. Hearst, states he only met 8010 Pasha socially. 8010 Pasha told his American friends thal Germany was' willing and anxious for a separate peace with France, involving the return of the seized colonies to Germany, and parts of Alsace and Lorraine, and conquered territory of France.