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Show oo Mil FIELD HAS BEEN RELEASED Floating South on Ice and Many Ships Are in Danger. London, March 3. A Stockholm dispatch to the Morning Post says that according to a message from Karls-krona Karls-krona Sweden, a whole mine field of several hundred mines is drifting from tho north, having presumably been set adrift by the ice and wind. The message adds that explosions are occurlng hourly and that navigation naviga-tion In the neighborhood of the Swedish Swed-ish islands is perilous. An official communication issued tonight to-night concerning marine losses says: "British wrecks reported to the board of trade in February aggregated aggregat-ed sixty-nine, involving a loss of 420 lives. Included in the wrecks were 42 steamships of a total tonnage of 5C.S5G. "Ten of these steamers were sunk by enemy warships with a loss of 36 lives; five by mines with a loss of 176 lives; one by a mine or submarine with a loss of eight lives, and one by bombs from a Zeppelin with a loss of thirteen lives. "Of 27 sailing ships lost, six were sunk by enemy warshipB." New York. March 2. The British destroyer Viking was blown up by a mine on or about anuary 29 and all of her officers and crew, numbering about 70, were lost, according to word which reached here today in a letter to relatives of the commander Thomas Thom-as Christopher Williams, No p'revious intimation that the Viking had been destroyed has come from the war zone. oo |