THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 March 1917, Page 2

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

AUSTRIA'S REPLY TO AMERICA DICTATED BY GERMANY. Received March 3, 5.15 p.m. London, March 3. Tile Daily Telegraph's Milan correspondent states that Austria's reply to the American note on submarining is expected to-morrow. It will follow the us.ial Teutonic sophistry, using the British blockade as a pretext lor piracy. The reply is really dictated by Berlin. Le Temps 'quote* an American Embassy official as saving that war with Germany is inevitable. GERMANY'S REPLY TO CHINA. NECESSITY KNOWS NO LAW. Received March 3, 8.15 p.m. j Copenhagen, March 3. ■Berlin messages state that Germany's reply to China's new note declares that the blockade measures must be directed against neutrals, but Chinese passengers will be spared as far as possible.

NEW GERMAN SUBMARINES. AX AUSTRIAN DESCRIPTION. Renter Service. Received March 3, 5.15 p.m. London, March 3. Acording to a Vienna message, the Fremdqnblatt states that the new German submarines will have a great radius and powerful armament, will be six-cy-lindered. 1000-h.p. oil engines will be used under the sea instead of batteries, remaining below indefinitely. They will all be fitted with mine-layers. CUNARD LINE DEFIES GERMANY. WILL SPEND TWENTY MILLIONS. SHIPS 'REPLACED AS FAST AS SUNK Received March A, 8.15 p.m. New Yor>v, March 3. It is stated in shipping circles that the Cunard Lino will spend twenty millions sterling at the Atlantic and Pacific shipyards, and build a great liner fleet that will foil the submarine blockade, replacing' ships as fast as they are sunk.

GERMAN HOPES. PEACE ON GERMANY'S TERMS. ALLIES TO BE STARVED INTO SUBMISSION. Renter Service. Received March 3, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, March 3. German papers are significantly cautious over their expectation as to submarinism. The Koelnische Volks Zeitung now says that the complete stoppage of shipping is not to be expected, but the diminution of imports for the Allies will procure peace on Germany's terms. It is not by starvation, but by the Allies' realisation that starvation is approaclwng that will 'bring a decision. The paper further says that the Germans may he forced to send out their fleet.

FAMINE IN SCANDINAVIA. RESTRICTION'S IN DENMARK. Received March 3, 8.30 p.m. Copenhagen, March "2. Famine is increasing in Scandinavia, the submarining heir.# severely felt. Denmark lias prohibited the use of gas and electricity in shop windows, and ordered the municipalities, to institute public kitchens for the .sale of hot food at moderate price?. The sale of spirits liaObeen prohibited. BRITISH CAPTURES. Renter Service. Received March 4, 5.5 ip.m. New York, March 3. Frank Simmonds, correspondent, of the New York Tribune, who has retunie-! from London, quoting Admiralty figure.*, says tha;t from February 1 to February 15 the British captured 25 submarine.!. Two surrendered in one day, the crows having killed thiir officers. THE FEBRUARY TOLL. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. London, March li. Si. far as is ascertainable, February's submarining! totalled:—British ships 250,632 tons; Allied (ten) 13,422 tons; neutral (fifty) 81,143 tons. The arrivals and departures for the United Kingdom up to February 25 were IG,-190. LATEST GERMAN SUBMARINE. Amsterdam, March 2. A German deserter from the Hamburg dockyard says that the latest submarine is 350 ft long and armed like a small cruiser. They carry twenty torpedoes and a crew of 32 men. Gangs are working day and night turning out submarines and light cruisers of the Stadt class. AMERICAN SAILORS LOST. London, March 2. David Walker and William Jackson, American sailors, were on board the British vessel Gargorm Castle (159b tons) which was sunk without warning by gunfire from a submarine off the Irish coast. One boat has Jjeen poked up; the other, with twelve men, including Jackson and Walker, waß apparently swampLed and, loai.

! SITUATION NOT ALARMING. SUBMARINES POWERLESS TO AFFECT ISSUE. DEMAND FOR ENTTRE GERMAN MERCANTILE FLEET. NATIONALISATION CONDEMNED. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. London, March 3. Tn his presidential address to the United Chamber of Shipping, Mr William ltacburn, while admitting that the Allied losses during tile last few months were serious, declared that the situation was not alarming. He was confident that the submarines were as powerless to effect the final issue as were the Zeppelins. He hoped very scon to sco every merchantman armed. Experts expressed the opinion that a gun or guns astern would be sufficient. ' .Regarding shipbuilding, there was not only a scarcity of material, but a scarcity of men, but it was no use disguising the fact that tlr men, although receiving enormous wages>, were giving less work in return. If the employers delayed or obstructed important national work, tliey would receive short shritt, and why not deal similarly with the men. The time for slackness and timidity was past. He finally suggested that one of the conditions of peace should be that Germany should be compelled to hand over her entire mercantile fleet. Why should any compunction be shown to a nation with such records of infamy oil the high seas. A resolution was carried condemning the nationalisation of the mercantile marine. FRANCE WILL ISSUE WEEKLY RESULTS. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 3. Experience having shown that the publication of the names of torpedoed ships has been attended with serious drawbacks, the Minister of Marine will in future issue the results of the submarine war weekly. SUBMARINES QUINTUPLED. Times Service. Received March 4, 5.5 p.m. London, March 8. Herr Zimmermann told an interviewer that the number of submarines had been quintupled, and it was expected that they would finish the war in autumn.