ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

NORWAY'S SUBMARINE * POLICY.

• VOSE GERMAN BLUFF. ' ißecilved Oct, 23, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Oct. 22. r Germany ,has presented a Note to Nor- , tray protesting against the prohibition fegwding submarines. Ths contents of ♦he Note hare not been revealed, but the , Norwegian Aftenpostcn's correspondent Interviewed Herr Zimmerman, the German Foreign Under-Secretary, who said the Note was serious, and that Norway's fconduet conflicted with the Hague convention concerning the simplest demands 'of neutrality. Meanwhile, submarines continue their operations off the Norjregianeoasts.

NORWEGIAN VESSELS STNK.

Received Oct. 23, 5.45 p.m.

Christiania, Oct. 22

Thrik Norwegian steamers and three tailerahavebeen submarined and sunk. The crews •' were' usually given ten minutes to take to the boats. Norwegian torpedoers were active rescuing Vie crews. - GERMAN COMMANDER'S BOAST. Received Oct. 23, 9.50 p.m. ' Stockholm, Oct. 23. '"A German submarine commandeT, . when setting file to the Swedish Schooner Greta, boasted that three hundred submarines were preventing traffic .pith England. ' CERiLAN PROTEST TO NORWAY.

_ • Amsterdam, October 20. 5 'K CleTOMi official message states that <jermany is energetically protesting to .■Norway against the exclusion of war from Norwegian waters being directed only against Germany, therefore. showing that Norway is not .•cting m a neutral. GERMAN CRUISER TORPEDOED. fiondon, Octooer 22. The Admiralty reports that a submarine torpedoed the. Arnan, a light cruiser of the Kolberg class, in the North Sea on Thursday. The cruiser ■was last seen steaming* slowly homewards under difficulties.

(The Kolberg class are boats of 4200 tons, with a speed of 25 knots, and Carrying twelve 4.lin guns). SEVERAL STEAMERS SUNK. ; „ Stockholm, .October 22. The Swedish steamer Algseld has been «unk, and fight persons have B»»IshedL , ■ REPRISALS URGED. The Hague, October 2*2. The piibHc continue to be agitated about the torpedoing of the Blomersdyk, Tubantia and Palembang, because Germany has not promised to punish the submarine commander. The Union of Neutral Countries considers that reprisals are necessary if Germany refuses. . . ■ IHE JUTLAND FIGHT.

KIPLING'S DESCRIPTION. London, October 22. Mr. RudysrA Kipling, in an article, describes the destroyers' night attack in the battle of Jutland, particularly ' the adventures of a 'boat he calls the .Eblis. After torpedoing and sinking a German battleship she suddenly found herself under the noses of two enemy cruisers. The riCarer one altered her course to ram the Eblis, which also al- < tered her course to avoid the cruiser, and the two, ships rammed each other. ; The cruiser left twenty feet of her side plates on the , forecastle of the Eblis. The Eblis was terribly damaged above and below, and the oridge wa3 demolished, pinning down the commander. The same cruiser fired large shells into the Eblis, and several "fires wire started. An enemy battle.cruiser tried *to ram the Eblis at full speed, grazing her stern. The commander of the Eblis, not expecting to surviv.e, threw overboard the secret hooks, but controlled the fire outbreaks, secured steam from three boilers, and officers steered from the engine-room, and, with improvised signalling and pumping apparatus, managed to reach port thirty-six hours after she had |ic?n rammed. Kipling records an incident in which three British destroyers were concerned. A large enemy ship fired a panicky salvo at the first destroyer, rendering her unmanageable. Swerving from side to side she caused the second destroyer, which was coming up, to ram under the bridge, and while they were looked a; third destroyer rammed Jthe second, cutting off her stern.