THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

FIGHTS WITH SUBMARINES. SUCCESS OF FRENCH STEAMERS. Received Jpno 18, 6.5 p.m. Paris, June IT. Official: Two French 6tcumers report having been attacked by large submarines near the Spanish coast, outside tbe declared blockade zones. Both aucMHfully maintained the artillery duel, obliging the attackers t» abandon struggle. . Hi ENEMY SELECTINGLARGBR ' London, June IJ. Captain Bathurst stales that there ta no diminution in the H'.'nnaritie activity The enemy is selecting vessels of heavier tonnage, which the official return do not make clear to the public. • - 'l The main Teason fewer are task W . " the arming of merchantmen. '• There is little hope of an ifltorovtd sugar supply. Two months ago In ten days 40,000 tons of sugar were ra^& AKffiE VICTIMS. 1 i Paris, Jose If. ' The Messageries steamer Annum nsl ; " on military service when it was tt(r-' pedoed jn the lonian Sea, All were saved. , Ohristiania, June 17. . ' The Norwegian. steamer Symra (8000 tons) has been sunk by a submarine off Huelva. The crew were reamed. A Russian sailing ship was dwMjed between El-Arish and Cadiz. ' , y Amsterdam, Jwi 17, The German steamer Turin stnuE.ji mine and foundered off Vedleland. Tie, crew were saved, . London, June 17* Galway fishermen had brought * float- ; ing mine ashore when it explode#/kUUgtf ■'% ten. ' . A GERMAN CLAIM DENIED, , . < A. and N.Z. Cable Association & Heetef. Received June 18,11.10 vjb. London, June Is. The Admiralty denies the Gkinul wireless report that a German submarine sank an English destroyer of I in the Mediterranean on June 4. ■■■■•■■ -i