ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE SUBMARINE MENACE*.! . GREATER THAN EVER BEFOHI, ' ' s TILE NAVY CAN BE DEPENDED' UPON. ' > Received Jan. 12, 8 p.m. London, Jan, 11, Admiral Sir John Jellieoe, acknowledge , ing the Freedom of the, Fikhmongwn" Company, said the fmhmarine menace was fai greater than dgring any of the war, requiring the utmost imcrg l t-j overcome. They must and could de»' with, it. The nation could depend up* the navy being ever ready, resource! and Tellable. I ~ ; BRITISH WARSHIP SUNK. Wellington, Jan. 12. "• . The High Commissioner reports' front ' '<' London, under date January H, .1 l(f' "- p.m.:— ■ K r The Admiralty reports • that H,M.g. " * Coruwallis was submarined and sunk 1a... the Mediterranean on Tuesday. I ThirT 7 teen arc missing. The seaplane carrier Ben\My Chree' ftas sunk by gunfire in Kastc-I Orizo harbor, Asia Minor, to-day. Ono officer; and foin nieiv were wounded. (The Cornwalllo wag a battleship of \ ( 11,01)0 tonß, built in 1004. carrying Tour ' 12in. and twelve flin. guns, arid h»vin* ■ ' a speed of 1!) knots.) ~* SPANISH REPRISALS URGED. '

. Madrid, Jan. 11.'- : Senor A/varez, .sade: of the Reform , flirty, advocates, as a reprisal for th« nibinarinirfg of Spanish vessels, that th» "...' Goverrimeat should place an embargo on \- (iii-man vessels talcing refuge in Spanirti ■• p*crts and the cutting off of the granta ■ onjoj-ea by. the, thousands, of ttrangW Spain is generously sheltering. •* . CHARTERING OF VESSELS.' ..- ' Received Jun. 12, 8.55 p.m. ' , . Tendon, Jan. A new regaleticn under the Defenw of the Realm Act relates to chartering to and from British- ports. With a view ■ to the co-ordination- of the Allies lit the of tonrtage, similar regulations are being adopted in France' ' ar.d ItalJ- Th permission of natipnal authority from each country will benc£- . forth bo necessary before foreign tonoaM ** i.s chartered. , . ''