ON THE SEA.
FIGHTING SUBMARINES. FRENCH PROGRESS, Paris, Dec. 16. The Minister of Marine, in an interview, stated that there had been real progress "in the fight against submarines. Franco had now a number of light-draught chasers, also the Gef-man submarine crews are less enterprising and are supplied with inferior munitions. BRITISH AIRSHIPS LOST. DESTROYER iUGSK BY COLLISION. London, Dec. 10. The Admiralty reports: A British airsnip of the non-rigid type, with a crew of •five - , proceeded on patrol on the 11th from an East Coast base, and lias not returned. It is believed that it was destroyed by a hostila seaplane in the southern -part of the North Sta. A .second airship of similar type was forced to descend through engine failure in Holland on the 12th. \ British destroyer was sunk on tiie 12th, after a. collision, and two men are missing. TOIL ON .NORWEGIAN* SAILORS. Chrjstiania, Deo. 16. Official: Norway has lost nearly 9000 saikn-s during the war ' DANISH VESSEL iSTJNK, [ Received, Dec. 17, 7.55 p.m. London, Deo. 17. I ' The Danish steamer Peter Willmoes I was torpedoed in the North Sea. Eighteen wei'c rescued and two killed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1917, Page 5
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190ON THE SEA. Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1917, Page 5
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