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Show BERLIN ANNOUNCES MARINE WAR LOSSES BERLIN. Oct. 21- With time ot his command to make a careful Investigation, In-vestigation, and the disposition to delve Into statistics. Dr. Christian Siegfried Toache-lUttler, a German ;, ls has announced that a (fits or 19.000.000 of enemy mercantile shipping was sunk by G-erman sub marines during the war. Of this ag- . -Kate, he says 14.t0P.O0l tons went down during the unrestricted campaign cam-paign beginning on February 1, 1917. including 12.30U.OO" tons In Engllsn ships. Dr. Toech-Mltt!er gives the total German shipping losses during th war as foilows One ship or the lln-.-. (the "Pommern" lost in the s.-;ng-gerak attack!: seven armor-clad rutsers, (of which the newest an 1 largest was the "LUetSOW.V Of 26.000 tons and launched In 1913. also lost Bl the 8kaggeralr). 17 protected cruisers. cruis-ers. 10 gunboats, throe special ships, two surveying vessels lost at Tln-;-tau. 48 large. 24 small and 28 old torpedo tor-pedo boats of arlous sizes, 28 minesweepers. mine-sweepers. 199 submarines. 17 auxiliary auxil-iary cruisers. 22 other auxiliary ve eels. and more than 10ft fishing steamers. In addition 30 naval balloons bal-loons were lost, some through fire from land, some because of storm and others on account of landings on enemy soil. The sinkings at Scapa Flow are giv-n as five large cruisers 10 ships of the line, rise small cruisers, and JC torpedo boats Dr. Toech-Mlttler describes fhse sinkings as "a noble, self-chosen fate which atoned for the damage done the honor of the navy by the revolution and which manifested mani-fested to the enemy the German di -Clance.'' |