ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1918, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

THE SINKING OF THS ' ! - ;LEINSTER. , • GERMANY TO BE JUDQED B£ 1 „ . London, Oct. lail l Referring to the sinking of tbe JJUH [ ster, the Freeman's Journal leaWwMa rniesian militarism is as feat as in' victory. . ■- The Irish Independent hopes ihaVyj ti ilmtion will be exacitd. rO The Irish Times trusts that recruit&B in Ireland will be stimulatad; "2® London newspapers remark so-called reformed Germany: muifclß judged by her deeds, not by fier **'**£o sions. The sinking of the Lemsfwiffl revive the Kaiser's reient me&agfr't&Jl nation saying: "Wo will so that when it is over we shall be s&Wm tC ? 1 act witt 1 clear consdffltaw! ' Aus. N.Z. Cable A^soc. Those drowned on the Leinatsr 3j&ia , Canon Downing, a leading DiißHn OMbS ■ ti?' MeGarroi >, es-preridantM ; N.Z. Se So Ufll ° n CoUgmß "^ THE OTRANTO D!SAsT{3t|l t SPLENDID DISCIPLINE, 7i yM | 372 MEN LOST, ." ;'.^f Received Oct 14, SX, p.m. ■ O'.l TV.II • ;Nuw Yor - lc » Oct Mowing on the collision, theadfiM stood stiffly to attention 911 the deSm the command of the officers. AstSSl broke over the disabled vessel, Jbsß listed heavily, SO me of the seamea at their respective boat stations M ing final orders, while others to their other duties as if notkimtil happened. Finally the bugle "Every man for himself:" jumped from the transport totao ot the destroyer which came Scores of soldiers missed the d6ota£uj£ s and fell into the sea and wm> Ann|3j ;, or were crashed between the, vessels.' 1 .ii l The destroyer's small fcoats Ma , I° w 6red to act as fenders • r in an I tempt to pick up the men in the- tniaw 1 The majority of the men who jVDBSsjI on to the destroyer's ously injured. Three JM. , seventy-two American soldiers are lieved to have been loat-^Sffl*.' Cafyle Assoc. " : THE LOSSES. *-( Received Oct. It, s£<mk "*■ ''*% Londcni, OttfijSjSjLl Sir H. W. Thompson, viser to the Food Ministry •iro«.foiyfyi'i(jsj in the Leinster. r 1 . ' Tlie Hinans Maru carried fft and 14c of a ctp.wi «if-gWr.VI p and 19 of the crew ; N.Z. Cable Assoc. '* GERMANY'SHWEWftPfIra^'^ WORSE.THAN THEOEOi f

Mil Job, 'Oe£: tU&Mjul S'lrequent-commcnt in Leinster case is that if t really ended militarism, as Seer .Enp , berger rlaims, the new civil pimw*£g , Germany must bear the blame of'tiffi i atrocities. It means either thai 'troll . many's new constitutionalism/iv& QlwiHi i or that it is equally as odious aft s£ira) tarism, so far as sunAazinisnt. oerned. t Sir Auckland Geddes says ihs {B&jj , many is trying to find a! way <mfc> W&jgj avoiding defeat. His great fear iti.wnf we shall be bluffed into a wrong pes|w| Hhe request for an armistice is: of that scheme. There is no evidUnß that Germany is tottering. She ia-WBS paring her greatest submarine cantpaigie Germany's aim is to keep what, in order to prepare for world domtttajiwa Mr. Balfour, at a ltrncheon i American press delegates, referred loss of the Leinster. The GeraknS:&MM fessed they had dhangcd thbir tion, but apparently they hmj not. choQra ed their hearts. They were brutes ■wjbpfjjj they commenced the war and fhejr mained brutes. The Leinater military stores and Berved no xdlU£|s| purpose., Her torpedoing was pure -wSj bariem find pure frightfulnßM, d«HbaS| ately enacted in broad daylight, GjtPS would Wave thought tint the CtanpafflS would shrink from repeating the CAPh which brought America into tJwjmgsfl particularly at the moment wheiy.yMrajffl ica, perhaps more than any other ligerent, was deciding Germany's ftjs{|g| It was incredible to lliink that other even more destructive and <KWg ardly crimes aasiinst helpless civililfy§| and prisoners did not command WfllM selves to the Cable Assoc." 1 ~- m® NUMBER OF SUBMARINES < % OPERATING. r '<-l London,-* Admiral Sims estimates "that man sijbmaxines simultaneou.-]} opffloilfj ing never exceed "thirteen, and age is nine.—Aus. N.Z Cibla Assou. v - J