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Show FIFTEEN SHIPS ARE SUNKJNONE DAY FIVE NATIONS SUFFER WHEN, GERMANS RESUME SUBMARINE SUBMA-RINE WARFARE. Campaign of Teutons to Starve Out England Results in Terrible Loss of Shipping on First Day of Warfare. London. Fifteen ships of 47.5S0 tons aggregate were the toll of the first day of the full-fledged submarine warfare. The period of grace given toy Germany Ger-many to neutral shipping in the "barred zones" expired, early Tuesday morning and the day's havoc caused by the U-boats is helieved to be indicative in-dicative of the proportions to be maintained main-tained hereafter In Germany's campaign cam-paign to starve out England. The vessels sunk Tuesday included includ-ed seven British, five Norwegian, one Russian, one Swedish, and one Spanish Span-ish ship. There la nothing In the reports to show definitely that there was loss of life. Grave fears are, however, entertained en-tertained for the bulk of the passengers passen-gers on the Commonwealth and Dominion Do-minion liner Port Adelaide of Liverpool. Liver-pool. Only ninety-six of her passengers passen-gers and crew are thus far reported to have Ibeen picked up at sea. The vessel's captain -was ctptured by the U-iboat commander. Aggregate tonnage sent to the bottom bot-tom on February 6 alone is 0,693 tons in excess of the total tonnage destroyed de-stroyed in the first five days of the new warfare from February 1 to February Feb-ruary 5 inclusive, during which period only 41,887 tons were sunk. The total tonnage destroyed since February 1 up to February 6 as reported re-ported by official and unofficial sources in London amounts to 89,467 tons. If Tuesday's rate should be maintained, main-tained, the U-lboat blockade would mean the destruction of a million and a half tons a month, or half a million in excess of the figures estimated In Berlin dispatches. |