On the Sea

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 115, 8 October 1914, Page 5

On the Sea

SUBMARINE SEIZED.

BREACH OF NEUTRALITY.

Rome, October C.

Belloni, a captain in the naval reserve, made efl with a submarine built at Spezzia (Italy) for Roumania. The submarino was undergoing trials wit'i on'}" a few workmen on board. Belloni, iu a letter to the shipbuilder, state* that the submarine must participate in tilt war. The workmen were not aware of his pi'flject, and lie bad no meeting oc arrangement with any person or authority. It is believed he baa conveyed the submarine to Corsica or France. In a later message Italy notifies the. belligerents that the submarine has disappeared, presumably to join the Russiali floet, notwithstanding that the builders of the vessel were notified that she must not be delivered, owing to Italian neutrality. Belloni wrote to the authorities that he was aware that his act was a breach of neutrality.

THE MISSING SUBMARINE.

Received 9, 9.55 p.m.

iParis, October 0.

[ The Central News' Rome correspondent reports that the Minister for Marine 3ias been advised of the arrival of Captain Bellow with the submarine at Bastia.

■WHAT THE SEARCHERS POUND.

AN INNOCENT-LOOKING VESSEL

Received 7, 10.20 p.m. London, October 6.

f The Scotsmair reports that when Customs officials were searching an irnio «ent-looking neutSal vessel on her entering a port in Scotland, they discovered large stores of oil fuel hidden under the rope coils. It is believed the vessel was engaged in supplying the German' submarines which'have been operating iff the North Sea..

NA«VAL OFFICER INPATIENT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London;. October 0!

An officer of the British fleet writes: "We have teen up to the front door and knocked, and said •Yah!' and 'Boo!' but'He merely looks through the keyhole and Tuns away. It is weary waiting for William."

GERMAN LINER'S EXPERIENCE,

Dunedin, Wednesday.

A former resident of Dunedin, writing to a relative, under date September 7, from Iloilo, Philippine Islands, says the ■North-German mail boat Prinzess Alice, from Europe, via Suez, to the Far East, was switched off to Manila for safety, and cleared afterwards for Shanghai. Later she was seen steaming in the direction of German New Guinea, and subsequently turned up at Zamboanga, Philippine Islands, with a hole in her. She then went to Ccpu, where she ft resting on a sandy beach while being patched up. The writer does not mention bow the vessel was damaged.