THE SUBMARINE WAR

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16289, 13 August 1918, Page 8

THE SUBMARINE WAR

THE NUMBER OF GERMANY'S U-BOATS.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z Cable Association.) LONDON, August 11. In connexion with Mr Lloyd George's statement that 150 submarines had been sunk, Germany had twenty-eight at the outbreak of the war, and built fifty small and 280 largo submarines in the war period. ASSASSIN WHO SANK THE LUSITANIA KILLED. (By Cable.—Presa Association.—Copyr!rtt.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 11. Information is now available showing that Schweiger, who commanded the submarine th*fc sank the Lusitania, was trapped an 3 perished withjiis vessel in a British minefield in September, j

AMERICAN FISHING SCHOONERS SUNK. (Australian and t N.Z. Cable Association.) ' (Received 'August "> 7.40 p.m.) WASHINGTON. August 11.

It is announced that a U-boat operating off the Massachusetts coast sank nine fishing schooners. It is not known whether there was any loss of life. (Received August 12th, 11.25 p'.m.) Two of the crew of the schooner Kate Palmer report that the submarine appeared in the middle of the fishing fleet and sank nine, vessels. Some of the survivors were detained aboard the 17boat before being sent adrift in a dory. Tho Nantucket, a Massachusetts naval scout boat, reports that a schooner, with four* survivors, was picked up sixty j miles off the coast.