Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-04-02 | Page 2 | Germans Send down Many Armed Ships

GERMANS SENQ DOWN MANY ARMED SHIPS ; Admiralty Publishes Addi- tion to List of the March j Submarine Victims. I ! BERLIN", March 31. by wireless to Say-ville. Say-ville. April 1. In addition to submarine ! successes already published in the month I of March, says an official statement by the German admiralty, thirty-four steamers, steam-ers, two sailing vessels and fourteen fishing fish-ing craft, aggregating 90,000 gross tons, were sunk by German submersibles. Of the total, twenty-four were British vessels, ves-sels, one of which was an auxiliary cruiser cruis-er displacing at least 8000 tons. The ships sunk include: Coranda. British, 2700 tons, armed. Pola. British, 3057 tons with coal, armed. Trevese, British, 3112 tons, armed. Alnwick Castle, British. 5900 tons, with parcels to Capetown, armed. Flixton. British, 42S6 tons, with iron ore, armed. Antony, British freight and passenger steamer, 6446 tons, armed. Clan MacMlllan. Briti&h, 4625 tons. Achille Adam. British, 4S0 tcns. Rio Sorocaba, British, 4350 tons, with 6400 tons of sugar for the French government. govern-ment. British steamer. probably Glenaen. 3200 tons, with sugar from Java to Nantes. Baesia, British. 1600 tons. British schooner, William Martyn, with coal. Three French vessels Esion, Rhoders and Etiole-Poleme fEtoilo-Poiaire?) ; Portuguese Por-tuguese steamer Angola, 4297 tons, with coal. Thirteen Norwegian vessels Steamers Skreine, Allool, Attika, L,aly, with wood; Arant. with sulphate and paper; Csundt, with iron: Pullux, with parcels: Egenesse, with victuals to England; Susanna, with herrings: Blomvaag, with coal ; Brod Kong, with coal and parcels from Glasgow to Marseilles, and Hugin, with coal from Sunderland to Santander. Dutch tank steamer lb August Kissler, 5100 tons. Seven ships, the names of which could not be ascertained, also were sunk. They were a British auxiliary cruiser of at least 8000 tons, an armed steamer of about 2500 tons, sunk after an artillery duel: an armed transport of about 400 tons, a loaded steamer of about 4000 tons, two steamers of 2000 tons earh. one flying fly-ing the Dutch flag, and a loaded steamer of about 1500 tons. The British steamship Alnwick Castle, t according to an announcement made bv the British admiralty March 29. was torpedoed tor-pedoed end sunk without warning 7'jr' h 19, with a loss of ten dead and a number missing. The Po!a was in the sprvice of the British Brit-ish admiralty. She was 323 feet long.