ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

GERMANY ENLARGES DANGER ZONE. £ew measures against use op * NEUTRAL SHIPS. Received Nov. 23, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, Nov. 22. Germany has announced the enlargement of the blockade zone round England and France from to-day. It affects Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and the traffic along the Spanish coast. It also deals with the Azores, while the hitherto free Eone in the Mediterranean will he included in the blockaded area. The memorandum declares that new measures will be taken to prevent the Allies using neutral tonnage to relieve fheir own shortage. GERMANY'S BARRED ZONE. DUE TO ENGLAND'S TYRANNY. AN AMUSING HUN EXPLANATION. JoLus. and. N.Z. Cable Assoc. and Reuter. Received Nov. 23, 8.20 p;m. , ' London, Nov. 22. A wireless German official statement, {explaining the extension of the barred tone to the Azores,, says: Our enemies |tre securing the services of neutral tonpage by all kinds of pressure, including the tightening o£ the starvation blockade against neutrals. We are compelled to extend onr submarine operations against England's unscrupulous! tyranny, Which ignores all rights, especially those pf smaller nations. Our widening zones, chiefly that encircling England, aims a blow at traffic which is increasingly important to England. The Azores arc an important pconomic and military base on the Atlantic route. Moreover, the Mediterranean channel to Greece is henceforth closed, inasmuch as the Venizelist Government uses it less for supplying the people with food than for conveying weapons and ammunition. A DISASTROUS COLLISION. AMERICAN DESTROYER SUNK. Washington, Nov. 22. The United States destroyer Chancery ins been sunk in a collision in foreign "Haters and 21 men were lost. TWO NEUTRAL SHIPS SUNK. Coepnliagen, Nov. 22. e Danish steamer Adolph Anderson *ias been submarined at the entrance to the Channel One man was killed. The Norwegian steamer Staerkodder itruck a mine on the west coast of Norsray and all the crew were lost.