Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-04-25 | Page 9 | Weekly Shipping Report Abandoned

WEEKLY SHIPPING REPGOI001) British Admiralty to Announce An-nounce Losses Once a Month. LONDON, April 24. The admiralty has announced the cessation of the weekly return re-turn of shipping losses and the substitution substitu-tion of a monthly report on the Thursday Thurs-day following the 21st of each month. A table issued tonight gives the losses of British, allied and neutral merchant tonnage due to enemy action and marine risk since the beginning of 1917. Losses for the quarter ending March 1917 were: British, 911,840, and allied and neutral, 1,619,373. For the quarter ending In June: British, 1,361,370, and allied and neutral, 2,236,934. For the quarter ending September: Sep-tember: British, 952,938, and allied and neutral. 1,494,473. Fort he quarter ending in December: British, 782,880, and allied and neutral, 1,272,843. The losses for the quarter ending in March, 1318, were: British, 687,576, and allied and neutral, 1,123,510. Clearance in and out of the ports of the United Kingdom were very steady. The total for last March was 7,295,620 tons. ROME, April 24. One steamer of more than 1500 tons and one steamer of less tonnage were sunk during the week ending end-ing April 20. according to the official statement on losses by mine or submarine issued tonight.