THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 June 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

gOMPHNSA'HON FOR DUTCH SHEPOWNERS. / ' Amsterdam, June 28. 'A Btrlm official statement confirms that compensation will lie given for the Iwen torpedoed Dutch steamers. It declares that the tonpedoing was due to the derangement of the submarine's .Wireless. This is in striking contrast to the original announcement which threw the responsibility on the Dutch shipjßwners. . IHE MONGOLIA'S PASSENGERS. Received June 29, 8.15 p.m. ,i London, June 28. All of the Mongolia's 450 passengers Excepting two English and,,one Parsee, Me safe. Six English and fourteen a* tives of the crew were lost. The res«es were effected during monsoon weather off Bombay. It is believed that all the deaths were due to the explosionthe survivors, after their trying experiences, are comfortably quartered at Bomlay. Those for destinations beyong Bombay are proceeding by another company's ShipS. y IKRE PROBABLY LAID BY HAIDIB.' Received June 29, 8.40 p.m. London, June 28. The Even'ag News says that attfoougW the Germans are e*itei»ively using submarines for mine-laying, the Mongolia s mine was More likely to have been laid by a wider, which Germany probably supplies through an organisation in a neutral country. There is another possibiUty" tha.t it may have been accomplished by the corruption of neutral caiptains, loading them to drop a few mines outside British ports.