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Show BIG DECREASE IN I THE SHIPS SUNK Only Thirteen Vessels of Ail Tonnage Sent Down During Dur-ing the Week. LONDON. April r.. There was a sudden and marker decrease in th losses to British shipping through mine or submarine in the past wopk. The' admiralty reports that only six British Brit-ish merchantmen of 1600 tons or over and seven under that tonnage were sunk in the week ending March 30. Five fishing vessels also were sent to the bottom. The admirahy stateropnt continues: "Fifteen British merchant vessels were unsuccessfully attacked by submarines. sub-marines. "The large vessels reported sunk in -elude onf sunk during the week ending end-ing March If. and the rnialler vessels 1 ported fnnl: include one sunk dur- ' ine the week ending March 'A" ' The arrivals during th week pnd-ing pnd-ing March 30 were 241G and the sail ings 2379." The looses to British merchantmen through submarines and mines in the past week are less than one-half the lo5 es m 1 he previous week, when j twentv eight merchantmen were sunk, sixteen of the e se! over 1600 tons. The adn 1 rally report for the preced-I preced-I ing week showed the lo:-s of Beventt en I vessels while for several weeks prior I to that the weekly loss was eighteen ROME. April ". -In the week ending end-ing March 30 Teutonic submarines sank three Italian steamships of more than 1500 tons and destroyed one sailing sail-ing vessel of more than 100 tons and nine sailing vessels of a tonnage under un-der that figure. LONDON, Aprd 3. Briti.-h ior- pedo-boat destroyer was sunk on pril 1 as a result of a eollision, aceording1 to an official statement issued by the1 admiralty tonight All on board were, saved. The statement says "fine of his majesty's destroyers sank April 1 as the result of a colli- ' si D. All hands were saved " |