ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

BRITISH SUBMARINES. BLOWN UP IN THE BALTICL Received May 17, 8.30 p.m.

London, May 16. AU the British submarines in the Baltic were blown up before the Germans • could get them. The officers and'erewa '.. are safe—Reuter.

AN EXCELLENT EFFECT.

RUSSIANS SINK MERCHANTMEN, .''■

Received May 17,11.50 pan. *

tw jj ■,, L ondon, May 16, The Admiralty reports that ieteft - British submarines which remained in -'J Kussian waters were destroyed by order h between the third and eighth of &m, J owing to German naval forces spam*.' \ mg !?'3 had already fi* 4b. '; mantled. The Russians retreated- after I i'lowmg up their four American bX - marines. The crews of the British S Z ■' marines were removed to Petrograd I Tha Russian admiral rejected a Wto* ' |P,°? al block the harbor by sin&M .' ships at the entrance, but the destruction „ ! ? I a"^ 11 had an erodl ; lent effect m inducing the craws ofmey. . ehantmen to destroy their vessels, which would otherwise have fallen Sato the hands of the enemy.- Aus. and NX Cable -'

AUSTRIAN WARSHIP TORPEDCitt

New York, May JR. Advices have been received an Austrian battleship has been'tft. pedoed in iPola harbor by the IfeUan naval forces.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc

REPORT CONFIRMED. T , ~ London, May W. Italian communique: An Italian ofieer and three petty officers entered the Mrt or Pola and torpedoed a 20,000 ton dreadnought of the Viribus Unitis type. No details are given. Seaplanes also l bombed Pola. ■

GERMAN FLEET AT KlEfy '. Ti . Geneva, May J«. It is reported that the GermanißaXtio fleet has concentrated at Kiel.