THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 February 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

THE SUBMARINE GAMBLE.

JTHE VICTIMS. "

DESTROYING SUBMARINES. i siETHODS USED. r*ris, Feb. 15. M. Raymond Lestonnat, writing in LUlustration, states that the British have captured tan important number of small submarines in nets, wjiich are of two kinds, one used to bar the entrance to ports and others lighter in construe, tion employed by trawlers to drag the bottom of the sea. Destroyers patrol and drop a grenade, which explodes at a pre-arranged depth. It works automatically by contact of the water with the fuse of the grenade. It has an explosive area of 25 yards, and is sufficient to twist the hull plates of a submarine. ' Patrol boats endeavor to get above A submarine and then throw out grenades, and when a stain of oil appears on the surface there is good reason to believe the submarine has been sunk, but captain of patrol boats never claim that a submarine has been sunk unless there is definite proof.

GERMANY'S LAST HOPE. New York, February 15. The Berlin correspondent of the Unitid Press, who is now at Berne, states that the Germans an staking all on the assumption that their submarines will be able to paralyse the Entente war industries. They do not believe that America will- be able to help the Allies much, because she is so isolated. Germany intends to Bend submarines into American waters. Food conditions in Germany are steadily growing worse. There were thousands of requests to the departing Americans for food. There is endless graft in Berlin; food cars are stolen, magistrates' friends get extra cards, food dealers interchange wares, the police are powerless because influential people are the biggest offenders. The recent cold froze and spoiled large lupplies. The greatest difficulty in transportation, which is used lip for army purposes. Thousands of schools, business houses and apartments arc closed. Meanwhile Hindenburg is coldly calculating on the possibilities of a military victory before it is necessary again to face the Socialists and other peace tgitators. TIRPITZ PARTY LOSING POWER. London, February 15. The' Daily Telegraph's Copenhagen forSrspondent says that Germany realises that the whole humanitarian world is 'against submarining. Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg and Herr von Zimmerman favor an amelioration of submarine warfare and the resumption of relations with America. The Tirpitz party is rapidly losing power. It may be taken as a certainty that Germany will not deliberately provoke war. The Daily Telegraph states that Aus-tro-Hungary is making efforts to avoid ft rupture with America, hoping that j she will be a means of peace intervention. Hope has dwindled of the sue- ! ces3 of submarining, and the people have reached a dull, sullen conviction that something must be done to end the trai} j

London, Feb. 15. Further vessels submarined are: Irish Ownhead (3050 tons), barque Endora (1991 tons), Cilicia (3750 tons). A CREW TWICE SUBMARINED. Received Feb. 16, 5.5 p.m. Times Service. '"'London, February 15. A boatload of survivors from the Azul liave landed. They report that they took to the boats after the vessel was torpedoed, and were picked up by the sailing ship Endora, which was also subjnarined. They went in the latter'a boats and drifted for five days. The boat containing the Azul's chief officer and fourteen men parted company the first night and is missing, and presumably the men are drowned. SUBSTITUTED PORT OF CALL. Washington, Feb. 15. It is stated that the British Admiralty has substituted Halifax for Kirkwall as a port of call for neutral ships from America. The companies are preparing to .resume sailing. gEBOISM OF MERCANTILE MARINE London, Feb. 15. A a Showing the heroism of the mercantile marine, the survivors of the >Vedagore, who had a fearful experience jjD ifce weather for ten hours, f b&tr to go to sei.