ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1918, Page 6

ON THE SEA.

THE SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN, VIGOROUS PROSEOCTIOnA London, July 12. Sir Eric Geddes, 5n opening the exhibition of naval photography, said there was hardly a day or night but the Navy visited Heligoland Bight, over, under, or on the water. Before the war officers and men regarded the use of mines as a sort of rat-catcher's job, but it is different now. Somo of the finest men and fastest ships were engaged in mining operations, often laying counter-offen-sive mines in Heligoland Eight. Gradually the mines were hemming in the submarines. "I am glad to say," he continued, "that I have two photographs taken by Germans which show the block-ships still lying in the entrance to the Zeebrugge Canal." Recently a submarine attacked six British trawlers oft Iceland. The submarine had two big guns, probably six inch, and fired a hundred shells. The battle lasted an hour, until one of the submarine's guns and the submarine herself were hit, and she dived. Regarding depth charges, a submarine operating off a seaside resort had been hunted for seventy-two hours, and thirty-five depth eharges had been dropped near her. Eventually she rose and. surrendered to a' drifter.—AusN.Z. Cable Assn. i GERMAN HIGH HANDEDNESS. Copenhagen, July 12. German submarines off Risor, inside of territorial waters, stopped the Norwegian steamer Hank and placed a prize crew aboard, but a Norwegian torpedoor came up and replaced the German crew aboard the submarine and towed the steamer to harbor.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.