The U-Boats.
GERMAN LOSSES AND CONSTRUCTION. (Received 12, 9.15 a.m.) London, Aug. 11. In connection with Mr. Lloyd George’s statement that 150 submarines had been sunk, Germany had twenty eight, at the outbreak of war and has built fifty smaller and 280 large submarines in the war period.—-(A. and N.Z.) FATE OF THE LUSITANIA ASSASSIN. (Received 12, 9.15 .a.m.) London, Aug. 11. Information is now available showing that Schweiger, who commanded the submarine that sank the Lusitania, was trapped and pisrisbed with his vessel irt a BrLish minefield last September.—(A. and N.Z.) On the Seas ENEMY MINESWEEPERS (Rec?iv; d I J. 30 a.m.) London, Aug. 11. The Admi-ftd' > > eports :— Our aircraft. heavily bombed enemy minesweepers cff Zeebrugge. They also observed that a German destroyer had been sunk eight miles north- * westward of Zeebrugge, probably by a British mine.—(A. and N.Z. and Reuter).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VIII, Issue 214, 12 August 1918, Page 6
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