ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 June 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

SUBMARINE SPY. ONE OF THE CONXAUGHT RANGERS. LONDON, June 10. The prisoner landed from a German submarine, now at the Tower, has been identified as Lance-Corporai Mowling., of the Connaught Rangers. He will be eourtmartialled for voluntarily aiding the enemy. FORCED AFIELD. U-BOATS ON U.S. COAST. NEW YORK, June 10. The United Press Association's London . correspondent interviewed Sir Erie Geddes, First Sea Lord of the Admiralty, who said that the successful campaign had forced the Germans further afield. No doubt we were sinking U-boats faster than the Germans were building them_ America would be able to cope with the submarines on her shores. Sir Eric Geddes did not believe that the Üboats were of a giant type. It was more likely that they were armed craft of the Deutsehhiiid type. There might possibly be fuel depots in South America, but not bases which would include repair docks. SUFFERING OF A BOAT'S CBEVV "Received 8.45 ajm. NEW YORK, June 11. Captain McKcnzie and sixteen bf the Pcnar Delrio fought the rough weather for twelve hours without food or water in a, small leaking boat, which when picked up was in a. .-inking condition, the gunwales being nearly undcr water. The last flare attracted the attention of the rescuers > FREIGHTER RAMS A U-BOAT. Received 11.10 a.m. NEW YORK, June 11. Reports from an Atlantic port state that a British freighter rammed a submarine off the Atlantic coast, and fought off a second U-boat in a running fight lasting an hour.

BOATING ACCIDENT IN ENGLAND. SEVENTEEN DROWNED. Received 11.10 a.m. LONDON, June 11. During a squall in Morecambe Bay, a fishing boat from Silverstone sank on a sandbank. Seventeen were drowned, including two colonial munition workers.