THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 March 1918, Page 5

THE SEA.

SHIPPING SHORTAGE.

* HUGE FIGURES. Received 8.40. NEW YORK, March 1. Exhaustive semi-official investigations reveal that the present acute shortage of shipping amount to 7,435,000 tons. The total destroyed since the war began is 11,931,000 tons. ANOTHER LINER SUNK. Received 12.50. , NNEW YORK, March 1. It is reported that the Anchor liner Tiberia was submarined on February 28. THE WOLF'S EXPLOITS. SHIP DECLARED SPANISH. COPENHAGEN, Feb 28. After discussion by the Danish, German, and Spanish atuhorities, the Igotzmendl was declared Spanish property. The captain then took possession. A contract has been let for refloating the ship'. THE.GRENART CASTLE DISASTER LONDON, Feb 28. The Grenart Castle was torpedoed within the are a which Germany declared a free zone, thus constituting, apart from the outrage, a further breach of German pledges not to sink hospital ships outside certain clearlydefined limits. The Admiralty reports: Sworn statements by two survivors of the Glenart Castle confirm the report that she was sunk by a submarine, which was sighted ten minutes before the Glenart Castle was struck. The i'hip was in the free area. One hundred and fifty-three, including eight nurses, are missing. SURVIVORS' TERRIBLE EXPERIENCES. LONDON, Feb 28. The Glenart Castle was a complete blaze of light when tovpedoed, there being not the least excuse for the German brutality. Scores rushed to the deck, most being clad only In shirts, trousers and pyjamas. The rescued people had terrible experience?, afloat on a heavy sea. They worked in the boats afloat by baling. -Ssre is little hope of fur. ther Jtarvivors. Search discovered only 5n empty lifeboat. There were indications that it had been occupied.