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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3995, 30 July 1915, Page 5

THE SEA WOLVES. I NOR K ASED ACTIV IT V. LONDON, July 28. The British steamer Hogarth was torpedoed off Aldcburg. A passing steamer roseued eight. Twelve are missing. Two Lowestoft trawlers were blown up by submarines’ .bombs. The crews landed. A "Norwegian steamer brought into Biy the the crews of the -Swedish steamer Emma and the Danish .schooner Maria, submarined in. the North Sea. , A submarine burned the bwodisli steamer Madonna, timber-laden from lfalmstad to Hartlepool. Twelve submarines from Antwerp passed the Scheldt and readied Zeebrugge. . , , , , Allied airmen on Monday bombed submarines King in the Scheldt and Ghent, enmil.' hut did no damage, though they destroyed a German guardhouse nearby. An aerodrome has been established in Saint Denis Square,_Gnent, and one hundred airmen practice daily. Ten to twenty aeroplanes are constantly iu the air. (Received July 29. 9.20 p.m.) The steamer Merearn, iron-laden from Bilbao to West Hartlepool was sunk and is supposed to have been torpedoed. The crew had just time, to jump into the water and passing vessels rescued them. A submarine destroyed four vessels. The crew of the Emilia were first taken aboard the submarines and two torpedoes were fired at the Emma. Subsequently the Maria ami two Danish sailers arrived on the scene and the Germans fool? of! their crew and drenched the boats with oil and ignited them. fauer the submarines met a Norwegian steamer and transferred mo four crews. Mr. MacNamara states that- up to July 27ih approximately 1550 people had been killed by submarine attacks nil the British mecantilo marine, and 22 people through attacks on neutral shipsThe vessels burned off Longstono include the Danish sailers Elna ami Nept-unus. A submarine burned the Norwegian barque. Srighedah'n in th-- North Sen. timber-laden for Middkesbur. ugh.

HOME OF THE WOLVES A HID BOMBARD ZEEBRUGGE (Received July 29. 10.20 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. Amsterdam reports that Belgnu and French warships on Friday bumbur tied Zeehrugge- and badly damage* a German torpedo boat. Airmen have been bombing Zee bragge- for four nights, and it is be Roved that they damaged two inesFRANCE’S GRIM DETERMINATION,

NATION FETTLED DOWN TO THE STRUGGLE. A NOTH F.R WINTER CAMPAIGN CERTAIN. LONDON. July 28. ••The Times'’ correspondent in Paris states that at the beginning of the war all Frenchmen expected that whatever the result of the struggle il would be speedily attained. 'They have now accepted the prospect- of another winter campaign. In the early months easy credence was given to reports as to the enemy’s scarcity of food, financial chaos and military demoralisation. Now sm.li stories rarely appear in t,he H rone]i press. The war lias proved a greater instrument of demon .-ary than the French rove iluiion. It is difficult to discuss the frame of mind of the different. classes of society when all are levelled 1> v the ordeal ot battle. Alorally they aro one to-day. I LFrench army is the French nUio.:.

AUSTRALIAN ITEMS. SYDNEY. July 29.. 'l'lii' Federal Government has forbidden 11 1 <> enlistment of skilled workmen ! nun the small arms fa.ct.ory, dockyards, and iron and steel works. (Kcceived July K ( J. S.iwt p.m.) tieadqunrters in Kyrypt denies the report- that any Australian ofTPor or German parentage was caught sniping other Australian officers, and also denies that Australian soldiers have hern ill-rested on suspicion of being spies, while the troops at Cairo were under the. Avar Precautions Act. \ new order lias been issued providing that no enemy subject or naturalised subject of enemy origin shall, a tier August 1. assume or continue to u so any name other than that ■ wherohv he'was ordinarily known prior to the war. The order also applies to firms and companies. \A omen who have married enemy or naturalised enemy subjects, however, are not required to alter the names they have fcb Jdie'Pwwuiiiui Assembly- passed the Foodstuffs Commission Bill to obtain returns of foodstuffs, and the Incensing Bill, providing for th-o closing of hotels. The; amendment operates on January 1.