ON THE SEAT.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEAT.

THE SUPER-SUBMARINES. RESULTS OP PAST'VOYAGES v KNOWN. SUBMARINES SUNK EASTER THAN* BEING BUILT. Received June 10, 2.50 p.m. Paris, June 9. A reliable authority states that the Allies are aware of the results of past voyages of submarines belonging to the type now in American waters. Two left Germany at the end of 1917, remaining at sea for four months and reaching the West African and equatorial waters, where they attacked 28 steamers and sunk 10, including four unarmed neutrals. They also sunk four sailers, all by shells and bombs. Only once was a torpedo used, and then unsucessfully. The total tonnage destroyed m these two voyages was only 19,000, equivalent to the Allies' daily losses in 1917. Germany requires sixty long voyaging submarines to achieve April's record. Usually there are only twenty submarines of all classes at sea simultaneously. The Allies are destroying submarines faster than Germany is building them.— Press Assoc. _ | BOATS TO BE ARMED. AND CONVOYED BY DESTROYERS, J Received June 10, 9.50 p.m. New York, June 9. An Atlantic port food ship in going to Europe was chased by a submarine off Virginia Cape. The steamer zigzagged and changed its course and then turned towards a home port The captain asked for guns and ammunition to fight the U-boats. The steamer Westerner was attacked by a submarine a hundred miles off Nantucket Shoal, but escaped to port., Washington, June 9. It is officially announced that coastwise vesels will be armed against the U-boats or convoyed by destroyers, The naval craft operating against U-boats in European waters will not be recalled. Mr. Daniels does not confirm the reports that a U-boat has been sunk off the American coast. FIGHT WITH SUBMARINE. JjASTING THREE HOURS. THE PIRATE MAIMED. Received June 10, 7.50 p.m. London, June 9. A submarine attacked a London steamship at night time during a heavy sea. Lightning and flares revealed the aggressor three cables off. The conflict was continued for three hours amid zigzagging and smoke screens. The Germans fiYed forty rounds ineffectually. The British gunners scored three hits out of ten shots. The submarine, after rapidly diving, appeared again with her aft part above water and the fore end 'submerged. Six Germans clambered out of the "conning tower and proceeded aft to examine the damage, when the steamer escaped.

U-BOAT SUNK. BY AMERICAN TRANSPORT. Received June 11, 12.30 a.m. New York, June 9. The American transport (cabled May 2C) sank a.second U4boat immediately alter by gunfire. No German sailors were saved. U-BOATS OFF MAINE AND FLORIDA. Received June 10, 7.50 p.m. New York, June 9. It is reported that U-boats were seen off the coasts of Maine and Florida, which are the northernmost and southernmost States. Incoming vessels rapidly sped to their harbors. ANOTHER STEAMER LOST Received June 10, 9.5 p.m. Washington, June 10. It is announced that the American steamer Pinar-del-Rio has been submarined 75 miles off the coast. Sixteen survivors landed and seventeen are missing AMERICAN TRANSPORT CHASED. Received Juno 10, 8.15 p.m. New York, June 0. It is reported that two U-boats pursued an American transport for twelve hours. The transport, having previously been warned, extinguished her lights and proceeded at full speed, but the U-boats kept up the chase till a destroyer was sighted, when they submerged.—Press Assoc.