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Show 2 0 0 Lives Reported Lost In Week-End Sea Warfare TWO SURVIVORS OF LINER SIMON BOLIVAR TALK OVER EXPERIENCES Walter Boeneger, 11-year-old German boy whoa mother and father perished, and J. S. Mailer, assistant engineer of ship, in London hospital GcrmansDcny Responsibility i For Toll ; LONDON, Nov. 20 (UP) Naval authorities tharged today to-day that Germany'! "unrestricted "unre-stricted sea warfare" had unk 14 shipi In the past nine days, including nine that "went down with apparent loss of almost 200 lives over, the week end. , ' ' , Four British, merchant vessels and five neutral ships went to the bottom and several others were damaged but reached port safety, over the week end. Most of the sinkings were in the North Sea, off the English coast and were attributed attrib-uted to German mines although in Berlin the nazis denied that thetr mines could have been responsible. The sea losses were perhaps the greatest since the start of the war In a comparable period and the sinking ol the Dutch liner' Simon Bolivar with probable loss of 160 Uvea appeared to be the-greatest, commercial sea disaster of the conflict. Blame Free Mines The British a"nlr"v nn tht eve Of the tweiity-lul Suuiver-sary Suuiver-sary of the surrender of the Or-man Or-man World war fleet to Britain-charged Britain-charged that the nails were placing plac-ing free mines In the- North sea In violation of International, law. The sinkings listed for the week end were: ....' 1 Probable Leas hip . Toaa: ad Life British Collier Torchbearer 12T 2 British Pensllva 4258 ' 0 British Trawler Wlgmore .......... US i: It British Steamer. ... Blackhlll 3494 0 Swedish Steamer . . Borjessen 1586 T Italian Steamer -7 - Grazla .. .5875 ' Lithuanian Steamer Kaunas . .1521 1 Jugoslavian Steamer Carica Milica 6370 , 0 Dutch lner Simon Bolivar ... 830 150 There were some' naval reports that several of the ships were torpedoed tor-pedoed but It was generally believed be-lieved that mines were responsible for most of the sinkings. The Torchbearer. the Pensllva, the Wlgmore, the Simon Bolivar and the Grazla all went down In ' a small area oft the east coast of England. Eleven members of the crew of the Torchbearer were landed. It was announced later. Six were taken to hospitals. Two still were missing. Naval authorities Insisted that the mines were German, because, they said, British mine are so equipped that they are harmless (OMttoiNi it Par Twl . , DRIFTING MINES IN NORTH SEA " SINK 9 SHIPS OVER WEEK END (OoeOnsa M Pass Os) asWr they break from their moor- , Inge. A week end gal apparently had scattered German mines, driv- . lag ehera in on the British tales and the Danish and Belgian coasts, ' but British authorities said the mines in the shipping lanes were set deliberately, probably by German Ger-man submarines, and had not drifted there. (In Hamburg the newspaper Hamburger Tageblatt carried an article by A. Muerer, retired Ger-maa Ger-maa vice admiral, suggesting that Germany throw its surface, naval craft Into war against British convoys con-voys to assist German airplanes and U-boats, "because It's no longer a battle, but a ruthlessly conducted commercial war which has become the chief naval task.") hip Lease Listed The ship loss were given a follows: For the week ending last Saturday Sat-urday the following British ships: Cresswell, 275 tons; Ponzano, 1346 tons; Metre, 8003 tons; Wood town, 1 . 74 tons; Africa Shell, T0 tons; BlaekhiU, .2492 tons; Torchbearer, . 1367 tons; Wlgmore, 345 tons. Since Saturday, the British Pensilva, 4258 tons. Neutral lost In the week end-Ing end-Ing Saturday! Nuiwsglan tanker' Arne KJode, 11,019 tons; the 8309- . ton Dutch liner Simon Bolivar, of which 150 of the passengers and . crew still are missing; the Jugoslav Jugo-slav steamer Caries Milica, 6370 tons. Since Saturday, the losses wer the Swedish Borjessen, 1586 , tons; the Italian Gratia, 5875 tons. ' (This list did not Include the , Lithuanian steamer Kaunas, 1521 ; tons, sunk by a mine with the loss of on life.) Twe Vessels Damage . la addition to those sunk. It wss - announced that two small British vessels, nam not given, had been damaged by mines off the east - coast. Total merchant shipping lost - during the war Is bow 121 ship totaling to-taling 486,209 tons, of which the allies lost 69 ships of 315349 tons; the Germans eight ships of 38,880 tons; neutral countries, 44 ships totaling 131,880 tons. It was announced today that 11 , more survivors of the Italian ship Grazia had been landed at a southeast south-east British port, making the total ' number of survivors 26. The mine explosion had killed five of the ' Grazla's crew outright and several more were believed missing. The Oversea Navigation company com-pany announced that the crew of ' 26 of the Jugoslav freighter Carlca Mlllca an had reached an English port. British authorities believed the plague of mine meant that the U-boats had been having such a lean time raiding shipping that they had resorted to dumping mine Indiscriminately. Mums Chained Together Survlvort of some of the ships believed the mines wer adrift In pairs, chained together, so that If ships struck the chains ths mines hit them on both sides. Captain C. Knudsen of the 11408-ton 11408-ton Danish steamer Canada, sunk last week, raised another theory testifying before a court of marine inquiry at Copenhagen. He believed be-lieved the Canada had struck a magnetic mine. The greatest disaster by far was the sinking of the Dutch liner Simon Si-mon Bolivar Saturday. The ship's agency her estimated that 400 were aboard. There are only 250 survivors listed so far. Thus 150 are missing. Women, children, even babies, were among the bedraggled survivors and also, presumably, among the dead. Of the 250 who survived, 170 were crowded In the Great Eastern- hotel at London; 49 were at Harwich; 17 at Dover Court, and 14 at Colchester. Many wer--hadly-tajured. tin Berlin, German newspapers said emphatically the Simon Bolivar Boli-var struck a British mine. Authorities Authori-ties said the German admiralty mad an Immediate Investigation and ascertained there were no German mine where the Simon Bolivar went down. Just off the English coast, and that It was impossible im-possible tor any German mln to have drifted there.) Mine war drifting over a wide area a a result of a week-end storm. Some had been swept onto the British coast; a ''harvest" of them crashed onto the Belgian coast, on exploding near the breakwater at Breedene, smashing windows at military hospital three mile away. Mines Drift Ashar Another exploded at Dyun and others drifted ashore at La panne, Midbelkerke. Knokkurmr and Blankenburghe. Three mine had been sighted off North Jutland and the Danish ministry of marine had warned ships la the area. The British spokesmen said these could not have been British mine because British mines have attachments attach-ments that make them harmless when they break from their moorings. moor-ings. Tbey believed the Germans had laid the mine at considerable depth, making us of a device which releasee them automatically by the chemical action, of salt |