Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-06
MORE SHIPS
TORPE DOED
BY GERMANS
British Steamer North
lands and Trawler
Agatha Are Sunk.
ENGLAND'S SHIPPING HARD
HIT BY THE SUBMARINES
One italian Steamer Destroyed
and Fears Are Felt for
Another.
-
UNDERSEA BOAT CAUGHT
IN NET AT DOVER, REPORT
French Launch New Offensive
Between the Meuse and
the Moselle.
ENGLAND'S SHIPPING HARD
HIT BY THE SUBMARINES
UNDERSEA BOAT CAUGHT
IN NET AT DOVER, REPORT

the Moselle.
Germany's new and powerful sub
marines are striking effectively at
British shipping, and todays dis
patches report the sinking of two
more vessels. The British steamer
Northlands and the trawler Agatha
were torpedoed near the English
coast. The crews were rescued.
The torpedoing of the italian
steamer Luigi Parodi, reported last
night, is believed in Genoa to have
occurred off the coast of Spain, in
dicating considerable range of
operations for the large submarines
such as Germany is now using. An
other italian steamer, the Pima, is
overdue at Cardiff by about month
and it is feared she has been torpe-
doed.
Report Submarine eau ght.
1t is reported unoff1cially from Dun
kirk that German submarine has
been caught near Dover in nets such
as have been placed at various points
along the English coast to trap these
boats
An attack which the German mill
tary chiefs regard as the opening
of new phase Of the Western cam
paign has been initiated by the
French in the section of the front
between the Meuse and the Moselle.
The official statement from Berlin
today says that the French employed
strong forces. with large amount
of artillery, in making assaults at
several points yesterday. The ..ght-
ing was particularly spirited In the
neighborhood of Verdun and Pont-a-
Mousson. Berlin expects a continu-
alton of these attacks. g
So far as lis shown by the German
statement, little was accomplished by
these assaults, although it is admitted
that in one section the French gained
a temporary foothold. The official
statement from Paris gives few de-
tails of the fighting, beyond the claim
that in two places advances were
made
Furious Bayonet Battle.
Reports from Petrograd declare
that the most furious bayonet battle
in history is being fought at Lupkow
pass in the Carpathians.
Reports of a decisive Russian VIC
tory In the Carpathians are doubted
in Berlin, where it is said that the re-
suit of the great mountain battle Is
still in doubt. A German correspond
ent at the front points out that Rus
sian advances in consequence Of
local victories will make their offen-
sive movements more difficult.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 6, 11:21 a. m.-The
British steamer NorthlandS of 1000
tons, with a cargo of iron ore. was
sent to the bottom by German sub
marine in the English channel off
Beachey Head on Monday morning
The Northland sank in ten minutes.
Her crew of twenty-four men were
picked up later by the Belgian
steamer Topati.
Hartlepool in 1900, and was owned
by the Northlands Steamship Com
pany, Ltd, of Cardiff.
BY tho Associated Press.
BLYTH, England, April s, 1s:42 p
m.--The trawler Agantha was attack
ed by a German submarine yesterday
off Longstone and sent to the bottom
The crew of thirteen men were res
cued by the Swedish steamer Tord
and landed here today.
BY the Associated Press.
GENOA, via Paris, April 8, 1870 a.
m.-Additional reports received here
regarding the sinking by a German
submarine of the italian steamer
Luigi Parodi indicate that she was
torpedoed near the Spanish coast. If
these advices are well founded they
show that German underwater craft
are able to operate at a greater dis
tance than had been supposed from
their home base
A. dispatch from Genoa last night
announced the sinking of the Luigi
Parodi, which left Baltimore on
January % with a cargo of coal con-
signed to Augusta, Sicily.
BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, April 6, a. ma German
submarine has become securely en-
tangled in a net specially designed
for that purpose and placed off
Dover according to the Petit Jour
naps Dunkirk correspondent, who
adds that the French naval authorl-
ties expect to capture the submergi-
ole when it comes to the surface.
Miles of submarine traps have been
set by the British navy at harbor en-
frances and other strategic points
around the British Isles to catch Ger
man submarines engaged in blockad-
ing England. The traps are not un-
like gill nets used by fishermen. NAL
leable iron frames ten feet square,
three frames joined, are sunk to a
depth of thirty feet, suspended from
immense buoys. If q submarine,
which is a blind thing when sub
merged, enters one of these frames
its sides are caught, causing the
lower frame to buckle upward, catch
ing the propeller. Thus the craft is
in the position of fish fioundering in
a net and it's occupants are doomed.
1t was reported that three sub
marines had been caught in this way
during the first ten days or the dock
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