ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 October 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

SUBMARINES IN AMERICAN WATERS. STATES' REPLY TO ALLIES' NOTE. New York, Oct. 11. A correspondent understands that the reply of the United States to the Allies was despatched prior to the submarining* on the American coast. FIVE EMPTY BOATS PICKED UP. , TX SUBMARINE ZONE. Received Oct. 12, 5.5 p.m. New York, Oct. 11. - Tt is expected that the keynote of the •, American memorandum on submarines ( will be insistence on protection of American lives and trade. Mr. Gerard bad a brief interview with t Count Bernstorff. t Newport reports til at five empty n boats have been picked up in the submarine zone. Plie garbled wireless leaves the identity of the boats in doubt. It ! is possible they are the Kingston's, and ) that the crew have been picked up by . eastbound vessels. ' NORWAY'S SHIPPING LOSSES. Christiania, Oot. 11. i .Norway's shipping losses since, the 1 war started have been 171 vessels,' of a tonnage of •23,">,000. One hundred and forty sailors have also perished. The Norwegian Government is protesting against German',destruction of Norwegian shipping, ignoring, international h'W and abandoning sailors in open boats in the Arctic. The Government declares that it cannot allow the torpedoing of vessels not carrying contraband. Germany has guaranteed that submarines will not enter Norwegian waters in voyaging northwards. ! SUBMARINES OFF MTJRMAN. London. Oct. 10. Tho Daily Chronicle's Christiana cor- - respondent says that German submarines bombarded the wireless station at Zepnavalok, on the Murman coast, I and killed several. Russian destroyers 1 sank two of the submarines. l Copenhagen. Oct, 10 There are large new German submarines on the Murman coast (Russian e Lapland), which have a range of 1800 i miles, and carry ten days' fuel. They - are supposed to be provisioned by com- - mercial submarines in the Arctic, v ' ■