VALUE OF LOST CARGOES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1917, Page 5

VALUE OF LOST CARGOES.

~.\im-:rT niu/rnv~D to hi-, a CRUISER. -sew York, -Trni. In One hundred and seventy British mid Hindus, 54 French. 13 Americans, r.nd some other nationalities were landed at ■Pernanibuen.. A hundrcdfcaptiircd .Lasc.'ir--. were retained on board the raider us stokers, releasing Germans . for prixe crew,;-. There were 441 men of the cn.ntur.vl crows on hoard the Yarrowdnle. the whereabouts of which is a mystery. Some report? state she has foundered. Others expect her arrival shortly. The Brazilian and Argentine Governments are investigating the rumor as to a secret Gerinai; base at an uninhabited costal port. Captain Days, of the French sehdoncr Nantes, Bays the raider flew the British; flag and ordered him to stop, then showed the German flag, and threatened to sink jiim, The Germans boarded the ship, removed the crew, looted the ship and sunk her with dynamite. The raider id believed to be the cruis'T Vincta.■ « ' The value of Cue ships' cargoes reported destroyed or missing is estimated at fifteen to twenty million dollars Ws;r risks to Britain are unaffected, but rates to the River Plate rose to 20 per cent. Further advices irom Rio Janeiro state that the Hudson Mam was compelled to accompany tha raider to 7 degrees South latitude, when r.he was allowed to go to Pmiamhuco. [The Vinota „s 7i protected ol SFOO tons built in 1899. She carrica two B.2in guns, eight Gin guns and has a speed of 19 knots.] THE NEWEST SUBMARINER Athens, J-.fi. "1 The newest German submarines jn the Mediteranean are of 1200 tone, with a surface speed of 25 knots and 15 knots submerged. WHY NOT SIXTYj. Amsterdam, Jan. IS. A Berlin message states that a returned submarine claims to have sunk sixteen ships, with a totifl tonnage of 20,000 ton?. PITILESS SUBMARINING URGED. Parisian. 18. The Petit Parisian's Zurich'correspondent says that meetings urging increased submarine ruthlessness are widespread in Germany. At Dresden' a meeting passed resolutions that the peace discussion must cease and that pitiles submarinings are indispensable.. THE DEUTSCHLAND AGAIN. New-York, Jan. 18. It ij reported that the Deutschland, with another submarine nearly' twice her sirc, is nearing Connecticut. OTHER. VESSELS SUNK. Received Jan. 19, 5.50 p.m. London, Jin. IS. The British steamer Sarfici... <!S3S tons, has bsen sunk. Received Jan. 19, 9.30 p.m. London, Jan. 19. ■ The British steamers Manchester Inventor, 4247 tons, and Wragby, 3641 tons, have been sunk.