GERMANY'S LOST SHIPS

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3027, 14 March 1917, Page 8

GERMANY'S LOST SHIPS

1,259,000 TONS ACKNOWLEDGED AS SUNK OR CAPTURED. Tlio "Vossischo Zcitung" of December .0, states that at a lecture given' at the Institute of Nautical Science on December 8, Captain C. Schroter, of Hamburg, on the basis of a great mass of statistical information, described the present state of German mercantile shipping; He stated that since the war 152 Ehips, with a tonnage of 452,000 tons, have been destroyed either by mines or torpedoes; 267 ships, with a total cargo room cf 807,000 tons, have been retained by the enemy, and made the most coniplote uso of by them. In neutral harbours 621 merchant vessels, With a total tonnage of. 2,341,000, are lying interned, condemned to inactivity, and 490 steamers, of altogether 2,410,000 tons, are still at home. These figures correspond to 7.1 per cent, of the total tonnago of the German mercantile marmo finally and irremediably lost; 14.1 per cent, in the hands of the enemyand 43 per cent, in neutral harbours.