ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 September 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

SUIfKEN PIRATES. 150 DESTROYED. LONDON, September 5. The Admiralty announces that although it is not intended to adopt the practice of giving proof of the official utterances of Ministers, it is thought desirable to give the names of the commanding officers of the 150 German submarines which have been disposed of in order to substantiate to the world the statement by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons on August 7, and denied in the German papers, that at least 150 of these ocean pests have been destroyed. The records show that 116 from the 150 commanders arc dead, 27 have been taken prisoner, 6 have been interned, while 1 succeeded in returning to Germany after his submarine had been sunk. The dead include the commanders who torpedoed the cross-Channel steamer Sussex, the Arabic, the Lusitania, and the Belgian Prince. The submarine which sank the Lusitania was lost on the Danish coast 18 months later, but her commander survived to bring disaster to another submarine, which was lost with all hands in September 1917. The Admiralty carefully files the names of officers guilty of particularly wanton outrages, and special endeavours are- made to swiftly terminate their careers.

A STEAMER AFIRE. Received 10.20 a.m. NEW YORK, Sept 6. A steamer has arrived at an Atlantic port afire. Her £argo of sugar and tobacco from Porto Rica was destroyed.