SUBMARINES
DUTCH STEAMER SUNK. TWELVE SURVIVORS LAND. Router's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM, January 16. Tho steamer Westpolden, carrying a crew of 18, bound from Rotterdam to Engand, has been torpedoed or mined. Twelve survivors landed at Scheveningen. BRITISH REPORT OF LOSSES. A BETTER RECORD.
Australian anil N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, Jammry 16. (Received Jan. 17, at 9.5 p.m.) Tho Admiralty supplies the following figuros of shipping f or tho week as relating to submarines, which compare with tho precious week as shown :— Jan. 6. Jan. 13. Arrivals for week ... 2085 2106 Departures for -week ... 2144 2184 Vessels over 1600 toais sunk 13 6 Vessels Tinder 1600 tone sunk 3 2 Unsuccessfully attacked 11 5 Fishing boats sunk 4 2 FIGURES I'OR ITALY. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association and Router. ' LONDON, January 16. (Received Jan. 17, at 9.5 p.rn.) An Italian official message states that for the week there were 294 arrivals and 209 departures. Two vessels over 1500 tons were sunk and one steamer .and one Bailing vescl -were ninsuoccFsfuly attacked. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17215, 18 January 1918, Page 5
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