TERROR IN BATTLE.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1916, Page 10

TERROR IN BATTLE.

I GERMAN STEAMERS TORPEDOED. | VESSELS STAY IX PORT. The successes of the British and Rus- ■ II submarines in the Ualtic this week lvruli the panic created in Germany by their activity Inst year (stated the London Daily News on May 20). In July the battleship Pommern, of 13,040 tons, wa« sunk; in August a transport was 1 put -lown, and in the same month Petrograil announced that a Dreadnought had - been torpedoed. This, however, it was alleged, did not sink. II t was in October that the greatest success was achieved. The El 9 proved ;e daring and effective that five victim.were claimed in one day-, the 19th; Geri man shipping was completely held up. ' In the same month an armored cruiser, the Prinz Adalbert', of 8836 tons, was sunk, followed in the succeeding month by the Undine, a light cruiser of 2GSC tons. The winter ice put a stop to submarine work, but it was confidently expected that both the British and the Russian boats would resume their attacks this spring. This has proved the case, and it will be remembered that yesterday the sinking of three vessels was announced. That the K boat is as great a terror as the U boat is evidently to be emphasised this summer.

A Copenhagen message dated May l! 1 stated:I—Yesterday 1 —Yesterday evening, at 9 o'clock, a German steamer was torpedoed by a British submarine at the northern entrance to the Sound outside Kullem. The crew of seventeen was saved. The steamer was on a voyage froiv Lubeck to Norway with coal. The Stockholm corresondent of the Politiken telegraphed that the chief officer of the steamer Soedra Sverige, describing the details of the saving of the crews of Lhe two torpedoed German steamers Kollgu and Biana, said that the Germans told him they received ample notice to leave the ships, and were even allowed to take their best clothes with them. The reason why Captain Haack, of the Bianca, was taken on board the Russian submarine was that he boarded the sinking vessel to get the ship's papers and was nearly drowned.

It is believed that two more German steamers have been torpedoed (says a Router message). One in the Xurlh, which was bound from Germany with coal, is missing. A shipping firm at Stockholm yesterday received a telegram from a German shipping firm lo keep all its steamers in port. Steamers which have passed through the Cattegat during the last few da\> report having observed several Urili-.i submarines, but only one solitary German patrol boat. Many Herman seaplanes, however, were seen reconnoitring. Tiie revival of activity on the art of Allied submarines in the Baltic in the lust day 01 two is explained by the fact that at last the ice difficulty has disappeared for the season, removing a peril to submarine navigation.