ON THE SEAS.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15948, 9 July 1917, Page 7

ON THE SEAS.

THE SUBMARINE MENACE. A NORWEGIAN LOSS. (By Cable—Press Association—Copyright.) (Australian and X.Z. Ca-ble Assoc: u> >n.l LONDON, July 6. Tho Norwegian steamer Bengueln which \v«s insured for four millior kroner (nbnut £220,000), bound froit Enelnnd to Philadelphia. was torpedood after tho crow had boon trnnsfnrred to a Spanish steamer. LOSS OF THE MONGARA. MELBOURNE. July 7. Tho steamer Mongara. S'2Q5 ton?, which has boon sunk, was owned bv iho Uritish India Steam Navigation Company, and was returning from her first visit- to Australia as a mail si earner. No details ar>> available regarding the sinking. .NO LIVES LOST. PASSENGERS PROCEEDING TO ENGLAND. (United Service.) LON7>o.\\ July 6. No lives -were, lost on the Mongara. All the passengers were landed at Messina, and arc proceeding to England. FRENCH SUBMARINE SU.VK. (Australian uj N.Z. Cable Asacciaiion.) (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received Julv Bth. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Julj 7. A French official message states: — "A French submarine \ras torpedoed

and sank by an enemy submarine in the Mediterranean. Server;rl officers and members of,the crew were lost. Nine were saved.'' BRITISH JOTXE-S WEEPER SUNK. (Tteceived July Bth, 0.0 p.m.) DONDON, July 6. The Admiralty reports: — "A mine-sweeper in the Mediterranean was mined and sunk. Ten of the crew are missing." UNITED STATES LOSSES. (Beuter'fl Telegrams.) (Received July Bth, 0.0 p.m.) WASHINGTON. July 6. The War Insurance Bureau has announced that the United States' losses by snbmafinings during the first sue months of 1917 wero more than eleven times greater than the total for the previous two years. AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK. (Received Jnly Bth, 5.5 pjn) WASHINGTON, Jnly 6. Tho American steamer Orleans was submarined. Four deaths aro reported. BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK. TORPEDOED IN NORTH SEA. (Australian and N.Z. Ca&le AssoaatwaO (Renter's Telegrams.) (Received July Bth. 11.10 p.m.) IvONDON, July 8. The Admiralty reports that a British destroyer on July 6th was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea. One officer and seven men wero killed.