, 1916-03-04

merchant ships are obliged to steam out
slte the mine-feld into International waters
where German cruisers are on patrol. Tbs
new niue field is intended to prevent traffic
in contraband along the Swedish coast to
Finnish pOrls, but as steamers used IN this
traffic draw little water, seldom over ten
feet, the mine field has not affected them.
All large ships however will be put under
German surveillance, and not even Sweden's
>nvy will be able to sail from the North
Sea to the Baltic nor the reverse without
German pilots.
London, Fehy. 29th-The Admiralty made
public tonight a list of uuarlued British yes.
sels torpedoed and sunk by enemy submar-
ines without waning up to the end of 1915.
1T comprises 80 steamers and one trnwler.
n list also vas given Of neutral vessels said
to have been tofpedoed III the same period
without warning, consisting Of thirteen
steamers and one sailing vessel, of which two,
iLe "Gulfi9ht" aud "Nobraskau" were
American, four Norwegian, four Swedish,
one Dutch, one Danish, one Greek and
one Portuguese.
London, Feb. 29lh.-On the eve of the
dAte set 10y Germany for the beginning of
her new submarine campaign against armed
luelchantmeu, Lord Robert Cecil, Minister
If Wan Trade, has issued a statement giving
the DtlUlSu view Ol INC ottGuS Cl SuCu m5I
chanlmen. This statement, winch is in answer
TO queries whether mtrchnntmen hlve been
instructed to take the offensive against sub
marines, says: The British view nas always
been that defensively armed merchantmen
must not fire on submari es or any other
warship except IN seIf-defence. The Ger
mans have twisted Il passage iii ii document,
taken from a transport which they sank, into
meaning that merchant vessels have instruc-
tions to take the offensive. This is not SO.
The passage III question winch lays down
81 maximum distance beyond which mer-
chant ships are advised not to FIRE must be
2ead in conjunction with another passage
which makes it perfectly clear that merchant
vessels must not attack unless d submarine
shows unmlstakable hostile intentions.
Paris, March LIST. -"Thore is nothing to
tport in the rigion to the north of Veruuu
or in the Woevre district, according to the
announcement of the progress of h0stilities
made by the French War Office this after
noon. There was an Intermittent lombard
ment last night along the French front be-
tween Regnieville and Remfauvllle. The
text Of the official communication is as fol-
lows: 'In the region to the north of Yer
dun RS we'll as in the Woevre there has been
nothing Of importance to report. During
last night there was al ntermitteu
commandment at various points Of our
front between RegnieviIle and RemfluYilIe."
To lhe west of Pont- a. ousson our artil-
lery fire was directed against the second
and third of the enemy's lines, where the
the Germans apparently We're putting
through certain preparatory evolutions. Ia
A's2ce the fire Of our batteries has been
directed against the roads of comnunica-
tion of the enemy. In the region Of Ger
nay, valley of the Thur, a French aeroplane
equipped with double motors was success
ful i'll an encounter with an aeroplane of The
enemy. The German machine fell at La
Bassee into the German trenches and at once
caught Oh fire"
New York, Feby. 29th-AnoLymous
threats of q reign of terror along the New g
York shipping front, coupled with the mys-
terious sinking of $50 automobiles on "a
barge for shipment to the Allies and "a mys-
teriods fire in a munition ship to-day, caused
the greatest preparations by the police aud
the District Attorneys office to prevent new
outbreaks. Police officials practically estab-
lished that the plotters cut the mooriQgs Of
a lighter laden with $50 motor trucks, scut-
tied the vessel and guided it to miustream
where the consignment sank.
Washington, Feby. 29th. -Announcement