With the Fleets.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 8 March 1915, Page 5

With the Fleets.

"MADE IN GERMANY" BLOCKADE. BRITISH REPRISALS. GERMAN SUBMARINES SUNK. PROMOTION FOR ADMIRAL JELLICOE. London, March 5. Mr Asquith. asked as to details of the proposed reprisals, replied that tin; intentions of the Government would become apparent when the Order-in-Council dealing with retaliatory measures wis published. Il<- added: "I cannot now make a definite statement." The Board of Trade Ims cancelled the existing arrangements not requiring certificates of origin for goods consigned from Xorwav, Sweden. Denmark, Holland and Switzerland, of loss value than £•£>. The London Tiir.cs' Washington correspondent says that' comment in the United States on the British boycott of German trade is. almost without exception, unfavorable to the Allies. Papers hitherto friendly now- declare that tl'.e Allies have followed llie example of Gormnnv, making necessity their onlv law. It i< r,cognised that Britain desires to I>> humane in executing the new peliey. but. this does not. niter the essential fact, that bath the Allies and Germany had ii:i:\Uv got round to the same point, nrd retaliation is now the snr.ro]>'.' lav.- r? Europe. Hip fVrmrn j re--; is de-ie'itcd with the Amer' r, rv ne-v.-.r th.-- Oeniian note. It dee'ari'-, h<iv-i»-.-i r, that whilst Eng-nrv-j ■■rn\. '-'eniiany canr,r.'. r'e'nv cni'.'.lne ships. Vire-A.ir.~-! Job* .I"lli»ce lias e - I r . ;1. ; . of Ad--7;,.. t-;;- ~-iiienee to Captain Kinror »ni eresi-ntH him with the '• Tviee Cross. Tile f.t -:in:e:- Al.'.nn claims that she sunk a submarine in the Channel on February- 27. .Ail inquiry has opened. The Press Bureau states that destroyers sank submarine U8 and took prisoner the officers and crew. Paris, March 5.

Mr Augagneur, Minister of Marine, in an interview, said: "Not another ship will reach Germany if we can help it. We have observed the rules o? civilised warfare, bnt Germany has oroken all. putting herself 011 the- same plane as savages. We will starve her nut." Official.—The Maritime Prefect at Brest lias pronounced the Dacia's capture legal. ANOTHER STEAMER DAMAGED. Received 7, 5 p.m. London, March C. The Holland-Amcrika Co.'s Noorderuyk, which left for America, is returning to Rotterdam, badly damaged. It is believed the steamer was torpedoed in the Channel.

"NOT FRIGHTENED." FRENCH MINISTER'S CONFIDENCE. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received fi, 5.5 p.m. % London, March C. M. Augagneur, interviewed, said: — 1 eople state that Germany lias secretly built many large submarines. I know better. Neither England nor France is the least frightened." , France is advancing fifty millions sterling to Belgium, Servia, Montenegro, and Greece. THE DACIA. Received 7. 7 p.m. Paris, March 7. The Dacia's crew is returning to America.

SLACKENING OFF. OERMAXS SICK OF TIIE ST'TS. MARINES. Received 7. 7 p.m. Copenhagen, March 7. Herman Admirals state, that the strain on submarine crews is so great that some weeks will elapse before any fresh attempts on shipping are made.