ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

SINKING OF TUSCANIA. ■DIFFICULTY OP LOWERING BOATS. / ( ' . . ' London. Feb S. The Tuccania was attached to a convoy. (Slip had no warning nor sight of -the submarine. It was just dusk, and \]\e torpedo struck h r full amidships. Immediately efienvards smother passed astern. The.. Tiwcania took a »'■•• list, awl immediately t'.c men were calj'd to stations lint the Ist made it impossible for the lifrnoats \o Ve properly lowered. sn(nn men jumped into t"i«* water Tiie nwerinif of the upper lifeboats wan reVnowrihlf ■ fov a pood many casualties. Tlic snrvTvors wcvp l'tidcd naickly. fittftl w,ith clothes and lodged in bote's SI'PERB DISCIPLINE AND WrRAGE.

The Tiifcanin was aflpat for four hour* before s 'nklng, The rest of the 'ronvov is tnir. M'nv of t!ie s.irvivors ■ had never seen the ocean or been on , b<!fte! sltip until'tli y cmlnrked. Sime •vtto .in the water from <i p in. till 1 j h;Ri.i rlnmbprine on board rafts and | wstifing in the Infcv darknes; for rescue ni. d»w». When the torpedo str.ie"; the ! vwwl th" iifc-:nving crew immediately j r.in trf their stations, but the rivnnmn J had own !>lo»n up and the lights failed i almost immediate!!-. The auxil'av;. plant vvaa .put into operatiou and (hires lit every d.'ck. : . „ ,In the first darkness succeed ng the explosion there was some difficulty in lowering, the lifeboats, the chains b ing broken and the tickle tanjled. The | soldiers lined up in the darkness v.-aiiin«.j . tnget* in ..tlie boats ThMr discipline and ' portHje was superb. The men held on to fl nearly porpend'culnr deck, lowering boat after boat with swiftr.es- and prepisinn. The rapid canting of the liner, however, put many boats out of use. Raft* of »11 kinds were tossed overheard in order that those flung into \jh.«/Reamight have a chance of life. ißefora some realised what had happened, British destroyers were alongside, apd took the men off in perfect . order- One destroyer got 300 men on . board and was drawing off from the Tuscania when the submarine fired another'torpedo. It inWsed the destroyer, and a sistir destroyer immediately dashed off on a bomb-dropping enterprise. It is claimed that the submarine was hit-- '.'■ ■ THE TUSCAXIA'S CASUALTIES. Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received Feb. 10, 5.30 p.m. London, Feb. 0. The Admiralty states that of those on ooard the Tuscania 2235 were saved, 166 ' are missing, and 120 bodies have been recovered. GERMANY'S NEW PLAN. FOR ATTACKING U.S. TRANSPORTS. Times Service. Received Feb. 10, 5.5 p.m. , London, Feb. 8. Berne reports that the Germans have planned a new method of attacking American convoys by sending groups of powerful submarines in column formation to various points in mid-Atlantic, where rescuing will be difficult. '' tjf .THE SUBMARINE MENACE. ADMIRAL JBLLICOE'S OPINION. • '-'-.„ Reuter Service. '■~ ! *-'\ Received Feb. 10, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb 8. Admiral .Tellicoe, speaking at Hull, Laid that we were in for a bad time daring the next three months, but he believed that if we could hold out the Bubxnarine menace would be killed by August. SWEDISH RELIEF SHIP SUNK HUNS FIRE ON THE BOATS. 4 . Received Feb. 10, 5.30 p.m. Amsterdam, Feb. 9. The Germans torpedoed and sank the Swedish relief ship Fridland, with a cargo of grain for Rotterdam. The sub- : mgrine fired on the boats, six of the crew /: , being' drowned and another wounded. boatloads of survivors were landed at.-Otoehellina >