Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-26 | Page 1 | U-Boats Sink Many Vessels

U-BOATS SINK MANY VESSELS Twenty-five Steamships, Fourteen Four-teen Sailing Vessels and 37 Trawlers. BERLIN, March 25 (By wireless to Sayville, March 26) The sinking of twenty-five more steamships, four-j teen sailing vessels and thirty-seven trawlers, with an aggregate gross tonnage ton-nage of 80,000, in the last few days is announced by the admiralty. The statement follows: "In addition to the losses of ships already published in March, the Ger- man submarines during the last fewj days sank twenty-five 6teamers, four-i teen sailing ships and thirty-seven trawlers, with a total gross tonnage of 80,000. On March 9 a German submarine subma-rine annhilated by cannon fire a British Brit-ish biplane in the English channel." oo Fourteen Americans Aboard. NEW YORK. March 26. The St. Louis, owned by the American line, I left an American port on March 17, with thirty-one passengers, of whom fourteen were American citizens. Among her crew of 394 persons were 131 Americans.