CAPTURE OF ERZERUM

Taranaki Daily News, 19 February 1916, Page 5

CAPTURE OF ERZERUM

OK- THE SEA.

SURPRISE OF THE WAR , * .. . -f ROUMANIA BECOMING ANXIOUS BULCARS AND CREEKS MEET

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IN THE ADRIATIC. ENEMY SUBMARINES SUXK, '•i-. . ' Paris, February IT. A Writer in the Echo de Paris states there is every reason to believe that French ships in the Adriatic duriag the pa# three, days have sunk two enemy tubmarines, and. perhaps three. , <TH£: TRANSPORT SERVICE. ADMIRALTY'S WORK Beceived Feb. 18, 5.5 p.m. txrodon, Feb. 17. In the House of Commons Mr. B. E. Peto (Unionist M.P. for Wilts) moved pa.»niendnMiit to the Address regretting tk|t measures had not been taken to utilise economically the merchant tonnage, by placing it under the control of a central expert authority, with power •J'td- requisition the direct movements of the vessels, and a limit to remuneration for transport services. Every ship, he said, ht'ttur merchant fleet should always itflke the full voyage out and home, and tbe transport of coal and wheat, or the wtowport of munitions and troops, alitold all be, under this control. Mr. A. J. Balfour said that the Transy. pert Department of the Admiralty had done their Work with the greatest skill. It would have been impossible to carry out the many duties but for the assistance and advice of distinguished ship-

jLiNERS And submarines. ~GERMANY'WANTS A PLEDGE. Received Feb. 18, 5.5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 17. . Germany has informed the United St»te» that if passenger liners leaving American ports with defensive armament srer to be immune from submarine attack, as Germany promised through Count Bernstbrff, Germany expects definite assurances that liners will not attack submarines. AMERICA STILL UNDECIDED. SWEDISH "CHEEK." Received Feb. 18, 5.15 p.m. New York, Feb. 17. It is understood that America is dissatisfied with Count Bernstorff's assurance that Germany will not torpedo linerg without warning, and wants a definite declaration from Berlin. Mr. Lansing has declared that a settlement about the Lusitania is impossible uutil the question of armed merchantmen is settled. The livening Post asserts that Sweden has invittd the United States to join in a conference of neutrals, in order to compel Britain to observe the international law that she now violate.. THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN. GERjiAS SOCIALISTS DISAPPROVE. Received Feb. 18, 5.25 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 17. Socialuts .in the Prussian Diet hav? disapproved of the Government's subjjaiint' campaign againit merchantmen. Till SOCOTRA. H SUCCESSFUL SALVAGE. ' Eeceiye'd Feb. IS, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 17. {it jSdeotfVi salvage continues satisfactprfljr. Several hundred bales of mpl, all the hides, and much zinc and fa.» 4 kv« fop iftlfrmA,