News of the Navies

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 107, 29 September 1914, Page 5

News of the Navies

THE UINK-LAYIXG OPERATIONS. SOME UK It MAX lIALLUCIXATIONS. London, September '27. The Daily Telegraph's naval reports quot.i a letter from Dr. William Lloyd to the effect Hint many trawlers have been captured in the Xortli Sea lit Led with a Maiconi installation and earryling ft torpedo tube. It is unqv.rs!ionable ibttt trawlers have heen uswl for

,mine-laying by night. The time has come when the North Sea should be cleared of hostile and neutral fifhing boats, which are the cause of great anxiety to sailors. Enemy submarines approach under cover of German trawlers, flying the British and Dutch flag. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London. September 27, Articles are appearing in Berlin papers regarding the sunken British cruiser.', with the object of inducing Italy to take part in the war on the side of the Triple Alliance. After this incident, Italy is assured that .she need not fear the British fleet. The papers are unanimous in stating that the Germans will persist in submarine tactics to gradually reduce the British nary. The Tiinca in a leader, say.i that the lesson of the exploits of the Emden might have been multiplied n hundredfold if the German navy was much larger or the British less formidable.