THE BLOWING UP OF THE KARLSRUHE. ONLY 96 BRITISH MERCHANTMEN LOST IN WAR

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 69, 22 March 1915, Page 5

THE BLOWING UP OF THE KARLSRUHE.

ONLY 96 BRITISH MERCHANTMEN LOST IN WAR

ADMIRALTY BELIEVES THAT SHE WAS SUNK. CREW RETURN TO GERMANY IN SUPPLY SHIP. . ' WELLINGTON, March 21. The Prime Minister has received the following cablegram from the High Commissioner, under date London, March 20:— The Admiralty announces that it has every reason to believe that the Karlsruhe was sunk in the neighbourhood of the West Indies at the beginning of November, and-that those members of the crew who were rescued reached Germany, early in December, in the Kio Grande, the steamship which has been acting in concert with the Karlsruhe.

EIGHT SHIPS TORPEDOED LAST WEEK. DESTROYER FIRES ON SUBMARINE IN IRISH SEA. LONDON, March 21. The Admiralty announces that since the beginning of the war 54 British merchant vessels have been sunk or captured by enemy cruisers, 12 have been mined, and 30 have been torpedoed by submarines, totalling 96 ships, aggregating 332.770 tons. . The arrivals at. and sailings .from the United Kingdom ports of steamers' of all nationalities, exceeding 300 tons, in the same period, numbered 42,264, of which HZ have been lost. The Admiralty's weekly. list of British ships sunk by submarines shows a total of-eight out -of-1359 sailings. Ships newly announced as having been torpedoed are the Hyndf ord, which was not sunk; the Leeuwarden, sunk; and the neutral vessel Hanna, arso sunk. .The Hyndf ord, a vessel of 4286 tons, built in 1905, owned by the Scottish j Shipowners' C'ompnnv. of Glasgow, was bound from Bahia Blanc*. Brazil, for London; 'She was torpedoed in the Channel by a German submarine, but reached.Gr.tvessnd. leaking. ■ The steamer-Bluejacket, 3515 tons, built in 1904, owned by G. Hallet, of Cardiff, from La .Plata', bound for London, has also been torpedoed, without warning, in the Channel. Her crew landed in the.vessel's lifeboats. The .Bluejacket reached Southampton with her bows submerged. , Passengers by.the liner Lapland report that a German submarine attempted to'torpedo the vessel in the Irish Sea. A British destroyer fired at the submarine, but the result is unknown.