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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 236, 15 March 1915, Page 5

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BRITISH ARMED LINER SUNK. TORPEDOED OFF ENGLISH COAST. HIEAYY LOSS OF LIFE. Received March 14, 4 p.m. Jjoudon, March 13. The Admiralty reports that the auxiliary cruiser Bayano was sunk off the west coast of England, probaldv torpedoed. Twenty-six were, saved and 194 are missing, including the commander and thirteen officers. The steamer Casliereagh passed through wreckage and bodies wearing lifebelts on Thursday morning, and searched for survivors, but a submarine chased her for twenty minutes. ' Survivors state that it was pitch dark whe.iiii the Bayano was struck oil' Corsewall Point. The steamer sank in a few minutes. Many were asleep at the time. There was no panic, everyone going to his post. Some of the boats were cut away, but were smashed in the descent. Captain Carr said to a sailor who was giving out the lifebelts, "Good, lad. Save .yourself." The captain stood on the bridge, cool and collected, a> the ship went down. The bulk of the men were drawn into the vortex. The steamer Balgrino rescued eighteen men, quite exhausted, after four hours. Some were clinging to an upturned boat, and others to rafts. The patrol ship Tara rescued eight. GERMANY'S COSTLY "BLOCKADE." ELEVEN SUBMARINE BLOCKADERS GONE. BRITISH FLEET MUST BE BUSY. PSINZ EITEL ANNOYS AMERICA. London, March 12. Daily Mail advices 'from Copenhagen state that it is reported in German naval circles that eleven submarines have been lost since February 18. The loss of four is officially admitted and seven have been missing for three weeks. The passenger boat, Great Southern bound from Rossdale to Fishguard, noticed a two-funnelled steamer endeavoring to head her off. The steamer then flew signals of distress. Meanwhile a German submarine appeared. The Great Southern escaped at high speed, and the decoy steamer sailed away. American newspapers of all classes savagely comment on the sinking ol the William Frye as vandalism and piracy, and reflect ou the sublime impudence of a pirate entering an American port. The names posted at Lloyds wore the ships sunk by the Eitel FYiederich. (A cable stated that the names of seven small steamers had been posted at Lloyds as missing, the natural inference being that they had been sunk by submarines). A GENUINE BLOCKADE. Received March 14, 5 p.m. Paris, March 13. The Norwegian steamer 'Bryssel, oilladen, from America to Stockholm, which the British had previously ex- . amined, has been released, the authorities being satisfied with the genuineness of the cargo's destination. THE DRESDEN AGAIN. SHIPS SUNK IN SOUTHERN WATERS. Received 15, 12.15 a.m.) . ' Santiago, March 14. The Dresden sunk the Conway Castle. The crew has arrived at Valparaiso. Buenos Ayres < March 10. The Kron Prinz Willielm sank the French steamer Guate Loupe, off Fernandonorouha. MORE GERMAN SUBMARINES. BUILDING AT ANTWERP. Received March 15, 12.15 a.m. Amsterdam, March 13. The Telegraaf says Renter confirms the report that five hundred workmen an hurriedly building submarines at Antwerp. BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES. Received March 15,12.15 a.m. London, March 13. , Tlie, Admiralty announces that from the beginning of the war to February 7th seventy-throe British merehantment were sunk or captured, whereof eleven were mined and eleven sunk by submarines. Forty-six fishing vessels were captured or sunk, whereof eighteen were sunk by mines. Only one fishing boat was mined since the start of the blockade. KARLSRUHE'S LUCKY DAY. Received March 15, 12.15 a.m. Copenhagen, March 13. A released prisoner who was lateh aboard the Karlsruhe, says he heard thai when the Glasgow ceased chasing her sin only had five tons of coal aboard.