THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1917, Page 5

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

THE "BELGIAN PRINCE" HORROR. REPORT CONFIRMED BY ADMIRALTY. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Rcuter. Received Aug. <O, 9.30 p.m. London, Aug. 6. The Admiralty report confirms the details of the torpedoing of the Belgian Prince, and adds that affidavits support the datails of this atrocious outrage and cold-blooded murder, equalling, If not transcending, the worst crimes the enemy has committed against humanity. THE RECOIL OP THE BOOMERANG. Amsterdam, August 6. Captain Persius, summing up the navy work in the third year of the war, reiterates his warning against exaggerated hopes of the submarine campaign. The enemy is in possession of the greater part of the world's tonnage. Also they must not overlook tho shipbuilding capacities of America and Japan, to" say nothing of Britain. The latter's Baval superiority enables her unjustly to claim the command of sea power. The Cologne Gazette poinat out that Germany's neutwU neighbors are earofully conserving food supplies, owing to the precarious shipping outlook after the -war, and have practically ceased exporting foodstufla to Germany, This means that our Wholesale and indiscruninnto submarine campaign against the world's merchant ships » Mt stsrvfDtf England, but helping to Q«nwuiy. GERMAN STATEMENT OF LOSSES. Received Aug. 7, IJS a.m. Amsterdam, Aug. G. i A German official statement gives the average losses of submarines from February to August as slightly exceeding three per month.