JELLICOE'S MINES.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 February 1917, Page 3

JELLICOE'S MINES.

NEW NAVAL MEASURES. INTENSIFIED MARITIME WAR. (Sydney Sun Special Representative). London, Jan. 20. Berlin is perturbed concerning Admiral Jcllicoe's new minefields in the North Sea. The Tageblatt states that the British have established a blockade of the Heliogcland Bight, involving portions of the Dutch and Danish coast. The measures include minefields and patrols directed against the entrance and departure of the submarines.

Admiral Corsi, an Italian, interviewed in Paris, states that the dual conference agreed to intensify maritime war, and devised now methods for the protection of merchantmen. He denied that large convoys were being organised. That idea was regarded as unsound, owing to (he largeness of the target for submarines. Norwegian messages describe the foundering of a large new German submarine. Distress signals were and a trawlei rescued the crew, except an ollicer, who was drowned. The submarine was probably injured in a net. The general e.vpectatation is that- Jcllicce's anti-submarine campaign will increase the diflieulties oi egress from bases.

The sinkings have somewhat diminished, but the methods are increasingly cruel. Instances of this are that the crew of the steamer Talayo are missing, and that the captain of the Russian steamer Rube reports that a submarine of the most modern type, without warning, shelled his ship. In a very roug.'i sea the crew clambered into the boats. The shelling continued, until, at the fifteenth, shot, the vessel heeled over. .

Las Talmas messages say that 1!) of the crow of -the Norwegian Tharaseland have arrived. They report that the captain was taken prisoner, and the rest were alloat in open boats during two days of storm. The British steamer tievington was sunk, and the crew's fate is unknown. Meanwhile Berlin officially boasts that the submarines are sinking armed steamers, a single submarine claiming three largo armed vessels in the Mediterranean, including an escorted transport.