ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 February 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

SEIZURE OF GERMAN VESSELS. AN APPEAL UPHELD. DETENTION INSTEAD OF CONFISCATION. Router Service. Received Feb. C, 8.15 p.m. London, Feb. 5. Tlie Judicial Committee of the Privy Council lias allowed the HamburgAmerika Line's appeal against tho Prize Court judgment confiscating two liners seized at Falmouth in 1915. The Court based its judgment on The llague Convention, and held that under the circumstances attending the seizure the vessels were only liable to detention during the war. The effect of the judgment is to reserve all rights for decision till the war concludes and the German Government's views regarding the construction of the convention are ascertainable. FAILURE OF SUBMARINING. GERMAN ADMIRAL'S ADMISSION. Router Service. Received Feb. 6, 8.15 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 5. Vice-Admiral Galster, writing in Die Post, says submarinism is not yielding the result anticipated. The theory of frightening neutral shipping, and the assumption of the speedy overthrow of England have proved extravagant. U-BOAT MURDERS. TOTAL OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. London, Feb. 5. Mr. Bonar Law states that the U-boat murders of women and children have totalled 14,000. THE LOSSES FOR 1917. Received Feb. 7, 1.30 a.mLondon, Feb. 6. Dr. T. J. Macnamara (Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty), replying to Mr. IX- iP. Houston, said that 09 3hips of over 1000 tons, and of an aggregate tonnage of 245,000 tons, had been lost by marine risks in 1917. NORWEGIAN LOSSES. London, Feb. 0. Twelve Norwegian vessels were sunk in January and eight sailors killed.