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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14284, 28 April 1917, Page 5

I The torpedoeing of the ateamship Laconia brings the total amount of tonnage lost by 'the \Cunard- -Line to a figure that probably exceeds the loss of Snnef *Shn^ Sydney -&h p-ping _ Last). The White j Star Line also had 4ost= several of its finest boats'/including-* th 8 Britannic, while other 'companies have suffered m proportion. Ciuiai'd liners that have . beeti destroyed" during the last year m V elude the Alaunia., a 13,000 ton 'vessel; the Franconia-,. of 18,000 Vtoiiß' gross $ th» Invernia; of 14;000 tens ; and filially, i.thfe Lacrimal,' an 1 18;000 ifbh* ship, and „a J jßi.Bter ? ;sWp' i to^tli.' ; Fi^c'oriia.-- : -The'se four; ships; with the Lusit-jnia, represent a loss m excess of 90,000 tons gross.