ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

SHIPPING OUTPUT. IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA. London. Sept. 5. TIII Admiralty announces that: the tonni-'e <u •i:< , :vlif!:il>iien completed in the I.'n'trd Kingdom ; n Anjii'f. wu ■f'.'T7." '■■<•<. comn.ired with 140,948 tons in July The total for the 12 ill"!'- 1 !- fo the end of August is l',.'il-2.i 1 1-! tonsEon l . ' 3 :rric comment? on the reduction. ,1m! savs it is portly attributable to influenza, while plans to increase the "killed bib-.-- in th" yards have bc-rn frustrated bv events on the West front, but ''e '= ' '"ri'-'ed to sar there is an early probab'litv of a reduction of (>(, vrc-ent nova! 'i:wrra:umo. which v.-i'l result in the transference of men to lfevebanr <Oiiphi>il<lin<» work. He is of opinion that the output will improve mnlerinil'- towards the end of the rear. —Aus -N.Z. Cable Assoc, and 'Router. Recent figure-) of shipbuilding are a.s follow: 1913. Gross tons. January SS.3AS February 100.038 March ' '.f.1.674 Anril 1M.533 Mav ..- .. 107574 •Line 134,130 Julv - 14fi,04S All-rust V24.C75 Tiie losses for April, May, and June were about 600,000 tons. .New York, Sept. 4. The United States delivered CO ships iu August, of which 4." were steel. The total tonnage was 430.000.—Au5.-N.Z. Cable AssocTHE TOLL ON SUBMARINES. NAMES TO BE j PUBLISHED. London, Sept. 5. The Admlrallr announces that, although it is not intended, to adopt the practice of giving proof of the official utterances of "Ministers, it is thought desirable to give the names of the commanding officers of the 150 German submarines which have been disposed of, in order to substantiate to the world the j statement by the Prime Minister in the Honse of Commons on August 7. which was denied in German papers, that at least 150 of these ocean pests have been destroyed. The records show that 116 of the I<so commanders are dead, 27 taken prisoner and six interned, while one succeeded in returning to Genriany after his submarine was sunk. The dead include the commanders who torpedoed the cross-Channel steamer Susses, the Arabic. Lusitania. and Belgian Prince. The submarine which sank the Lusitania was lost on the Danish coast IS months later, bur, the commander survived to bring disaster to another submarine which was lost with all hands in September. 1917. The Admiralty carefullv files the records of officers guilty of particularly wanton outrages, and special endeavors are made swiftlv to terminate their careers.—Aus.-N.JC. Cable Assoc, and Reuter.

EDISON'S U-BOAT DETECTOR. New York, Sept. 5. The Baltimore correspondent of the New York Times learn* that Edison's invention for detcctinff submarines is an electrical device fastened to submarine chasers. Tt is capable of indicating the presence of a U-boat under water for a radius of five miles. The position of the U-boat can also he detected with reasonable accuracy. —Au?.N.Z. Cable Assoc.