ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

FIGHT IN ADRIATIC. AN AUSTRIAN STOKY. Vienna, August 4. Official— Prominence is given to the naval fight in the Adriatic in which a squadron of Austrian torpedoers bombarded Molfetta, on the Apulian coast. On returning the torpedoers and the cruiser Aspern bad a lively scrap with an Italian cruiser and six destroyers, in the course of which the Austrians registered several hits. The enemy disappeared south. The enemy submarined the lorpedoer Hogue. AUSTRIAN DESTROYER TORPEDOED. Renter Service. Received August (i, 5.5 p.m. Rome, August 5. An Italian submarine torpedoed an Austrian destroyer in the Upper AdriCAPTAIN FRYATT'S MURDER. BRAZEN EXCUSE FOR INFAMY. Renter Message* Received August 5, 5.5 p.m. London, August 4. The German Government is much perturbed as to the effect of telegranja to neutral countries emphasising the infamy of the murder of Captain Fryatt. Berlin issued an official reply, wherein a lame attempt was made to justify the execution, brazenly alleging that Captain Fryatt had made a treacherpus attack on the submarine. y A VILE SUGGESTION , Received August 0, 5.5 p.m. London, August 5. Newspapers quote the suggestions of the Qologne Gazette and Volks Zeitung that/future British captures who copy CaptAin Fryatt's methods should be hanged instead of being shot. NAVAL AERO SQUADRON. ——- AERODROMES AND MUNITION SHEDS BOMBED. Received August 0, 5.5 p.m. London, August 5. The Admiralty announce that on Wednesday successful attacks by oui naval aeroplane squadrons were carried out in the enemy's aerodromes a' Saint Dennis and Westi'cm, and the ammunition sh'ds 1 1 Mierebeke Two tons of bombs were dropped doiim considerable damage. A DARING SUBMARINE. ' BOMBARDS TOWN NEAR I CONSTANTINOPLE. I Received August C, 5.5 p.m. Constantinople, August 5. Advices state that a submarine recently entered the Sea of Marmora and bombarded Cartal Penbik, an hour's journey from the capital, causing serious damage. WRECKAGE OFF NORWAY. BRITISH SHIPS PROBABLY MINED. Received August G, 5.5 p.m. Christiania, August 5. Lifeboats, rafts, and wreckage washed ashore on the Norwegian, coast indicate i that the British steamers Calypso and Aaro were mined or submarined. It ia feared that the passengers and crew have been lost. ITALIAN SUBMARINES MISSING. Rome, August 4. Official.-Two Italian submarines left on a mission to the enemy coasts and have not returned. They are considered as lost. . ,;£'., PIRATE SUBMARINE SUNK. New York, August 4. Captain David Thompson, of the steamship Strathness, reports sinking a German submarine in the Mediterranean by gunfire. British gunners aboard fired , in self defence after the submarine had , launched a torpedo. - rjl' ' i ! SEVERAL SHIPS TORPEDOED. THE CREWS LANDED. received August 6, 11 p.m. London, August 0. The crews ot two schooners, a barge, and a coasting steamer, which were submarined, have been landed at Weymouth and Plymouth. Submarines elsewhere sank the Italian , steamer Siena, the Greek steamer Tricoupis, and the British steamers Tottenham and Favonian. A SWEDISH COMPLAINT, GERMAN DUPLICITY. - ! Received August G, 11.10 p.m. ' , Copenhagen, August 8. A German submarine destroyed a ! Swedish steamer and schooner, timberladen for England. The newspapers com- ; plain that Germany recently promised ' to spare timber ships, and thereupon ; Sweden permitted the export of hun- \ ; dreds of horses to Germany,