THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 July 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

AX AUSTRIAN" rOMMAN'DKK'S VIEWS. Amsterdam. July '2!'. Ailmiral Xjearand, commander of the Au-irian fleet, in an interview with the Xeue Frei Presse, said that if Austria lad had a jz-reat fleet the war with Italy would have been finished long ago. lie did not believe submariner would decide the war, though they mhfht render England nncomfortab! ; they were merely a means towards victory. GERMAN STEAMER CAPTURED. London. July 29. . "The Admiralty reports: One of our submarines in the Xorth Sea on Friday captured the German steamer Ratavier 11. The crew abandoned the shin and a prize crew went on herd. She was beinj; towed, but damage t'roi.i v»ntire made it impossible to briiij; her in aim *he was scutticd. JAPAKESE DESTROY A SUBMARLXE. London, July *2!». The Japanese naval attach" announces that Japanese warships in the .\iedi'"rranean. which were e.-".-ortin„ a liriti-h transport on July ->i. attacked and fine-bed the periscope of an enciuy »übmarine and undoubtedly destroyed lit. - . BASE REMOVED FROM ZEEBRUGCE. Xew Yon:. July 20. The Washington correspondent of the Xew York World has obtain-d authorititive mid confidential information as to the reasons the Allies have for not attacking the submarine base. This is because it is not situated, as supposed, at Zeebniggc, but thirty miles up the Bruges canal, where the submarines ere in dug-outs safe from bombs.