ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 March 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

BRITISH LOSSES. SLIGHTLY LESS. Received March 7, 10 30 p.m. London, March C. The British Admiralty report on the submarine fainpai.au for the wool: ended March 3 gives the following figures: This Last week week Arrivals 201.5 2274 ; Railings 22fi!> ■>?<)s Sunk over 10(10 tons 12 14 Sunk under 1000 tons .... 6 4 , Unsuccessfully attacked .. 6 9 SMALL FRENCH LOSSES. Received March 7, 11,43 p.m. London, March 7. French shipping returns for the last two weeks are a3 follows: This Last week. week. Arrivals 805 fid Sailings 748 flOl Sunk over 1 fiOO tons 0 0 Sunk uirtler .1100 tons .... 2 1 Unsueee-.ii'iiliy attacked ... 4 4 A DASTARDLY MURDER. A WOUNDED SKIPPER SHOT. BY SUBMARINE CREW. Received March 7, 11.45 p.m. London, March 7. The Central News has ascertained the details of a revolting murder of a Belgian fishing skipper last week. A German submarine sighted the fishing smack and fired without warning, destroying the masts and sails and wounding the skipper. The-skipper refused to quit the smack, but told his crew to save their lives. The submarine approached, ordered the Belgians t;> quit, and put two Germans aboard with bombs. The Germans found the skipper wounded and helpless, and shot him dead with a revolver, in sight of the crew, among whom was the skipper's son. The Belgians were then cast adrift in a cockleshell boat, but were picked irp, after severe privations. INTERNMENT OF PRIZE CREW. GERMAN PROTEST TO DENMARK. Received March 7, 11.30 p.m. 1 Amsterdam, March 7. The German press is violently attacking Denmark for interning the German prize crew of the Igotz Mendi. The Government has protested against this unfriendly act. FIFTEEN U-BOATS SUNK. IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. New Y'ork. March 0. Yaimanto, Japanese attache, who has come to the State-, gays that the Allies sank 15 U-boats i n the Mediterranean during February. BIG LINER LOST. 4S LIVES LOST. London, March (i. The Allan liner Calgarian (17,315 tons) has been torpedoed on the Irish coast. There were 000 on board. The Admiralty reports that the armed mercantile cruiser Calgarian was torpedoed, and sunk on March 1. Two officers and 40 men were lost. TRAGEDY OF THE SEA. MORE HUN FRIGHTPULNESS. Received March 7, 5 5 p.m. Reuter Service. London, March CThe captain and five of the crew of the Norwegian steamer , Havna have landed in Britain. The vessel was torpedoed without warning and sank in a minute. Twelve of the crew are missing. The survivors clung to a raft all night, and saw eight on another raft, all of whom died or were washed off. The survivors found a righted lifeboat, in which they drifted for fifty hours before being rescued by aJ) American destroyer. While the men were in the water the Germans refused to help them. ANOTHER STEAMER TORPEDOED. Reuter Service. Received March 7, 5.5 p.m. London, March 6. The steamer Keutaro has been torpedoed. Six of the crew were rescued. THE IGOTZ MENDI. Melbourne, March 7. It has been ascertained that the Tgotz Mendi was never in Australian waters. She loaded coal at Durban for Colombo. GERMAN HAUL AT REVAL. Reuter Service. Received March 7, 7.50 p.m. Amsterdam, March 6. Eight old submarines and three serviceable steamers were secured by the Germans at Reval. IRISH STEAMER SUNK. Received March 7, 11.30 p.m. London, March 7. The Cork Steamship Company's packet Kenmare has been submarined. Six out of the crew of twenty-six have been sa vw>