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Show FIVE BRITISH SHIPSARE SUNK Submarine Sends Down Three Vessels in One Day in Irish Sea. Dublin, Jan. 31, via London Pel) 1, 1:50 a. m. The steamer Leinster from Holyhead to Kingston, reports that she was chased by a German submarine for fifteen minutes off the Kish light vessel, but succeedod in escaping. The Kish light vessel is opposite the mouth to Dublin bay. London, Jan. 31. Two British ships were torpedoed today in tho English Channel off Havre by a German submarine, sub-marine, continuing tho raid started yeBterday on British shipping by the sinking of three merchant vessels in the Irish sea. The steamer Toko Maru and Icarla are the latest victims of the submarine. subma-rine. The Toko Mam was of 6080 tons and carried Belgian relief supplies sup-plies Reversing the policy followed Saturday, Sat-urday, when the crews of the captured cap-tured vessels were given time to escape, es-cape, the submarine discharged its torpedoes today without warning the crews of the doomed ships. The new raid brings tho information informa-tion from French naval experts that Germany has n fleet of eighteen powerful pow-erful submarines capable of attacking Britain's oversea commerce. Each craft has a radius pf 2500 miles, while a radius of only 2000 miles Is necessary to enforce Admiral Von Tirpitz' threat to chase British commercial com-mercial ships from their home seas. Cargo of Meat, The Toko Mara, bound from New Zealand to England, was eight miles off Cape De La Heve to the northeast of Havre, when attacked at 9 o'clock this morning. The part of her cargo consisting of food and clothing given by the New Zenlanders for the relief of the Belgian refugees was valued at ?7500. Besides this her cargo consisted con-sisted of 97,000 carcasses of mutton The torpedo made a hole below the water line, but the Toko Mara remained re-mained afloat a half hour. This gave the crew of fifty-seven men a chance to get off in the small boats The crew was picked up by the trawler Hooper and brought to Havre this afternoon. No details are available concerning the torpedoing of the carta. Official Statement. Tho following statement was given out by the ministry' of marine: ' The Toko Maru was sunk by a torpedo from a German submarine The English vessel Icarla also was torpedoed in the same locality. "In the Irish sea the English steamers steam-ers Linda Blanche and Ben Craachen were torpedoed. "Hitherto the Germans, before attacking at-tacking a merchant vessel, always allowed al-lowed the crew sufficient time to embark em-bark In the ships boats. That custom cus-tom has now been abandoned, as was shown by the bombardment of the Admiral Ganteume, which was filled with Belgian women and children refugees ref-ugees Tho German marine has decided de-cided to violate systematically and deliberately international law." Kilcoan a Small Ship. The name of the third vessel sunk , in the Irish sea Saturday was learned today. She was the Kilcoan and was ( sunk eighteen miles northwest of LIv- , eriKDol bar The crew was allowed . to leave the vessel and w-as later land- . ed at Douglas, Isle of Man The j Kilcoan was a small steamer of 456 tons |
