Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1915-06-25 | Page 6 | Germans Adopt New Tactics

GERMANS ADOPT NEW TACTICS. Submarine Permits Steamer to Escape Es-cape After Jettisoning Foodstuffs. Newcastle, England The Norwegian small steamer Venus arrived here Tuesday minus the larger part of her cargo, which was thrown overboard, the captain asserted, under a threat of a German submarine commander that otherwise the Venus would be sunk. The captain says that the Venus was hailed by the submarine and' given the alternative of jettisoning all foodstuffs on board, or being sent to the bottom, and that in order to save his boat several hundred casks of butter but-ter and many cases of salmon and other tinned fish were consigned to the sea. The remainder of the freight on the Venus, consisting of wood, was permitted to remain on board. This is the first time that a German submarine boat is reported to have permitted a vessel to escape under such terms.