ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

BIG-HT TO SEARCH HOSPITAL j SHIPS. | ■ I BRITAIN'S OBSERVANCE OF j HAGUE CONVENTION KEITEEATED. Received 5.55 a.m. LONDON,, July S In the House of Commons, Mr. Macnamara stated, that German submarines on occasions exercised the right

of searching hospital ships in order to see if they were complying with the Hague Convention. He emphasised that Britain had never broken the letter or the spirit of the convention, and believed the same was true regarding the Allies. AMERICAN" TRANSPORT ATTACK OTTAWA, July S. News received at an Atlantic port !

states that a loaded American transport was attacked by eight U-boars in the Bay of Biscay. Two U-boats were sunk by shellfire NORWEGIAN VESSEL SUNK. OTTAWA, July 9. The Norwegian vessel Augvald was torpedoed and sunk in mid-Atlantic. Three were drowned and thirteen are missing.