Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 1 | German Undersea Craft Seek out Victims

IG German rm n Undersea Craft Seek Out Victims By United Press BERLIN March 4 Via Via wireless to Tuckerton I Acting under the new submarine order to torpedo armed armed- merchantmen German submarines on March 1 sank two French Freach steamers each armed with four cannon off the port of Havre the admiralty announced tonight ht The statement supplemented the announcement made today that two French auxiliary and one English torpedo boat Ii had d been bei sunk sink by submarines The French merchantmen being armed were classified by the admiralty admiralty ad ad- under the new decree as as auxiliary cruisers The British patrol boat was sunk off the mouth of the Thames a few hours after the new submarine decree went into effect In making public the statement regarding submarine operations the admiralty admitted it was was' in error in inthe inthe the sinking of the off the Syrian coast on February February 9 by a German submarine The French warship torpedoed was not the but the armored cruiser Admiral Charnier whose loss was subsequently subsequent r admitted by the French The admiralty also made public without comment the Paris report of the tho sinking of the auxiliary cruiser Provence while en eil route to troops The British admiralty has not admitted the los loss of t tI any English patrol boat off the mouth of the Thames I The Berlin statement locating the in the English channel disposes of a London report that the English patrol boat reported sunk in an earlier Berlin statement was the mine sweeper Primula torpedoed in inS inthe inthe inthe the Mediterranean Mediterranean- S IS I'S