SUBMARINE PERIL
AMERICAN STEAMER SUNK FOURTEEN PERSONS MISSING London, May 4. Two submarines torpedoed and sank the American steamer Rockingham. Two boats, containing thirty-three survivors, were rescued by patrols and landed in Ireland. A third boat, with fourteen occupants, is missing. Ymuiden reports that a Duteh trawler was torpedoed. The crew landed.— Reuter. . SINKING OF THE ARCADIAN SMART WORK BY PATROL ■ BOATS Marseilles, May 4. The transport Arcadian was sunk at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Patrol vessels were quickly on the scene and began the work of reßcue. Officers andi men showed splendid gallantry and| jumped into tho water and picked up survivors. One patrol boat saved 236 men in an bour, and transferred them to a warship. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The Admiralty reported on Friday that the transport Arcadian was tor-; pedoed in the Eastern Mediterranean on April 1. She sank k five minutes.' and 279 persons were drowned.] \ OUTPUT OF U-BOATS New York, May 4. Admiral De Chair informed! the mem-; hers of the Naval Committee, of the United States House of Representatives that Germany is building' three large submarines a week.—Alls..-N.Z. Cable Assn. . < . • FRENCH LOSSES FOR A WEEK ~ - (Roe. May 6, 5.5 p.m.) London, May 5. A French official message says: "The v shipping returns for the week ended April 29 show arrivals 986, sailings 995; one vessel over sixteen hundred tons and five under were submarined or mined. Eight ships were unsuccess- . fully attacked."-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.Reuter. - .
NORWEGIAN GRAVE. PROBLEM PRESENTED ' .. Christiania, May 4. Tho' President of the Storthing states that Norwegian shipping losses present a grave problem. If they aro continued it will be impossible to replace the tonnage. At the present rato the whole mercantile marjne will be wiped out in eighteen months. The "Aftenpost" states that sixtysix Norwegian vessels were sunk during March and seventy during April. One hundred Norwegian sailors were killed during April.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3072, 7 May 1917, Page 5
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