THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

•the surer remedy. OTEBBBLS OF CONSIDERABLE SPEED. Bweived July 31, 8.50 p.m. ' B . Paris. July 30. Sir Joseph MacUy (Shipping Control- »), on being interviewed, said that 0) ptt ttnt. ot the British merchant ocean* foers >were bow armed with two guns frna the necessary gun crews, bat tho Wrtr remedy for submarining is inte«e construction of vessel* capable ot tmeniag the danger zones at consider- ™ «peed. All shipbuilding efforts are t® be directed to this end. Our b.iildwill even exceed four million tons A 1913 if tlie army gives the workmen, jMticnUrly technical experts.

IFFECT OF WITHDRAWAL OF SHIPS.

OP PERMANENT TRADE |E>4. and N'i. Cable Assoc. and Renter. Received July 31, 9.55 pa, London. July 31. Continuing, Sir Joseph Mac lay said: ■Mpping, except as to a few vessels, ha--engaged in work of vital importttn to tlie colonies, and certain vessels M chartered by France and Italy. Ik# Government had requisitioned 07 fit cent, of the British oeean-jjoipq tmape. All liners had been requisitionand the profits g° to the GovernWat, not to the shipowners. Many that had been built up in distut waters by British enterprise had bMB abandoned to neutrals' shipping. Ao withdrawal of ships hid injured Buy export trades, particularly those (With India, the Far East, and also with tho distant colonies. One effect win that the market value of neutral vessels 1H doable that oi the British. After describing the huge reductions tl commercial imports and exports. Si.3eorpf Maclev said: "We have therefore sacrificed ruthlessly, for the take of OUT needs, onr industry and commerce. The temporary increase of exports by Mr allies is no substitute for the losi of permanent trade." THE CRUISER ARIADNE SUNK. London. July 30. The Admiralty reports that thecruiser 'Ariadne has been torpedoed and .-link. Thirty-eight men were killed by the explosion. (The Ariadne is an old vessel of 11.000 tana, built in 1399. She had a speed ot U knots, and was armed r .vuh sixteen fin. guns.) SEVEN DUTCH SHIPS SUNK. Amsterdam, July 20. A German submarine eauk seven ftrtch loggers off Ymuiden. AUSTRALIAN MAIL LOST. Sydney. July 31. The Postmaster General f totes that Ql mail which left Adelaide cn 'tine H was lost through enemy action. ISAPTORE OF~SUBMARINE CREW. Paris, July 30. Here are indications that the snbBUine stranded at Calais intended to mines. The prisoners boasted that tttj had sank seventeen vessels.