ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE NAVAL SITUATION. REVIEW BY MR. BALFOUR. IMPORTANCE OF JUTLAND BATTLE. 2IUTAIN RETAINS SEA COMMAND. received August 4, G p.m. - - London, August 3. Mr. A. J. Balfour (First Lord of the Admiralty) lias issued a review of the naval situation on the second anniversary of the war. He states that the moral and material consequence of the Jutland battle cannot easily be overruled, for it happened at the moment when the tide began to flow strongly in our favor. Every week since then had seen new Allied successes on the field and elsewhere. | Before the .'Jutland fight the German •fleet was imprisoned, and after the Jutland fight it sank again into impotence. , This was not merely the British view. ! for dermal l utterances gave precisely the same impression. Both parties are agreed that the object of the naval battle was to obtain the sea command, and we had not lost it. BLOCKADE TIGHTENED Our blockade had been tightened since the Jutland fight. The Hermans admit this by using greater violence and invective against Britain. We were not wearied by the repetition of the Carman cry: "Britain is our arch enemy and most at all costs be humbled in the dust." HERMAN COMMERCE SUBMARINES. If the Germans felt they were reaching maritime equality would they spend so much breath in advertising the performances of submarines, Hying the mercantile Hag, which carried 2SO tons of German produce, to say nothing- of the Kaiser's autograph letter, from Bremen to Baltimore. The whole interest lay in the fact that by using submarine: tli'.; Germans would elude the barriei the British had placed between Germany and the outer world, and which they knew the German fleet .could neither break nor weaken. COLD COMFORT IN MAPS German newspaper-,, upon the second anniversary of ifie war, exhorted the people to take comfort in studying maps. The amount of comfort desirable depends on the maps chosen. Even the map of Europe shows an ever-shrinking battlclir.e. The maps of colonial empire showed that most had gone, and the remainder were slipping front their grasp. DOUBLE APPEAL TO GERMAN MILITARISM. The Germans were aware that their victorious fleet was useless, therefore the submarine warfare makes a double appeal to German militarism—an appeal to precedence and brutality—because it cannot be carried out on a largei scale. The constituted laws ot war requirements showed that humanity still possessed energy wherewith, merchantmen etuld defend themselves from being driven by the German Admiralty. CALCULATED FEROCITY. The latest and most stupid act of calculated ferocity was the judicial murder y of Captain Fryatt. He did not propose to argue the case; it was not worth arguing. Why should we do the German military authorities an injustice by • supposing that they were animated by any solicitude for international law, and blundered into illegality by some isni happy accident that sank twenty-two ■ British ships without warning? He - knew that Captain Fryatt, in refusing : bravely to submit, was doing his duty i as a man of courage and honor, and ; this the Germans had resolved, at all i cost, to discourage. THE ASSASSINATION. BLOCKADE SCREW' SHOULD BE TURNED. Paris, August 3. M. Clcmenceau, commenting on the assassination of Captain Fryatt, says it is time that Britain made her full weight felt, especially in the blockade, which was too often released to prevent a quarrel with Washington. THE KING'S MESSAGE TO THE WIDOW CAPTAIN FRYATT PRAISED. Received August 4, <i p.m. B London, August 3. e The King has written to Captain Fryj alt's widow expressing his abhorrence e and deep indignation at the outrage. 1 His Majesty added that her husband's j action in defending the Brussels against | an enemy submarine was a noble in- . stance of the resource and self-reliance so characteristic of the merchant service. - ITALIAN SUBMARINE CAPTURED. d Amsterdam, August 3. ' 1 An Austrian official message says: We :i captured an Italian submariue in the s Adriatic. 1 - [GERMANS FEAR BRITISH IN BALTIC. Copenhagen, August ". The Germans fear the British may break into the Baltic. Most of their il warships are still being repaired after 1 the Jutland battle. t Newspapers are not allowed to pub- - lish obituaries of sailors, unless they - belonged to vessels officially admitted as s lost. t __ e "METHODS DESERVE UNSTINTED r PRAISE." f So writes a gentleman highly satisfied e with the manner in which we removed y his furniture. "Everything arrived in i- excellent condition." he further writes ; ;- "and although many of the articles wen ;. fragile, none of them were broken." Whj i- not employ this first-class service when d next you remove, and ensure your thing; e being handled carefully and safely?— The Ne,w Zealand Express Co., Lt£-

DEUTSCHLAND'S DEPARTURE. AMERICAN SYMPATHY DEPRECATED. New York, August 3. The Dcutschland suddenly increased her speed, a sharp order was given, the decks were cleared, the masts telescoped ii a twinkling, and what appeared to be a dummy funnel disappeared. It is believed the dash was not observed by the warships owing- to the dusk anil the stormy sea. The Xew York Times deprecates the tendency to sympathise with the Deutschland and give her ,\ sporting chance. It points out that the real object of the enterprise is to humiliate Britain and France. HOMEWARD BOUXD. Received August 4, ii.i p.m. Xew York, August 3. Nothing further Ims been seen of the Deutschland. w liicli it is believed has passed the three-mile limit and it proceeding homeward. SURVIVORS OF LE TIMBRO. ARRIVE AT MALTA • STUHY OF THE TORPEDOING. Received August 4, 8.10 p.m. ' Malta, August 3.. Twenty-eight survivors of the mail boat T.c Tiinlini have arrived. She carried a crew of ,"ij and 113 passengers, including women anil children. The submarine was observed four miles away. She chased the i.e Timbro, shelling continuously, and when slu overtook her the Le Timbro lowered her boats, which the submarine shelled., smashing five. It is believed the occupants were drowned, whilst many were killed by shells. COCKKU I.IXKR SUNK. Xew York. August 3. It is announced today that the liner Britannic has been sunk. The vessel was unarmed. The Britannic was owned by the Cocker Line, and was a vessel of 3187 tons. XOT A WHITE STAR LINER Received August 4, 5.5 p.m. Xew York. August a. The officials of the White Star Lirfe state that their steamer, the Britannic, is laid up in a British port, and has not been used in the passenger service for some time.