SUBMARINING

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 1 February 1918, Page 5

SUBMARINING

THE BRITISH LOSSES. (Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. and Reuter.) (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) LONDON, Jan. 30. Tho Admiralty report on tho submarine campaign during the week gives the following figures, last week's being .shown in parenthesis : Arrivals 2852 (2255) Depart nn* 2309 (2242) Bunk over 1600 tons ... 9 (6) Unsuccessfully attacked 8 (6) Fishing vessels sunk 1 TRANSPORT lADSES. 'Australian-N.55. KnUe Association i (Received Last Night, 7.30 o'clock.) LONDON, Jan. 30. Two transports' have been lost between Otrantosttid, Alexandria. The drowned included' Mur nurses. A destroyer was lost while recukig. ' ■ Both of the transports'were included in the sinkings" cabled on January i)ih. f\, The larger 'transport was the Pacific Mail Compauy's steamer Arragom, with 2000 aboard," including troops, nurses and medical men. The second vessel the old Khedeval steamer Osmariieh, with eight hundred aboard. It is believed that both vessels ran into a mine held, the disasters occurring ;» low hours of eacli%sher. . it is iuterecstmg to note* that during the war nine transports have been lostj the casualties aggreating 9000. iSouK'thijig like 11,000,000 effectives '> •■;■> been carried without casttality, with close on. 250,QW,.^fJoa|.f!. / on a single day. ' ' V"^*'""^/''"

■ SKRIOTT8 1 IiiOSS OF Llftfe ' . ' (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn. & Router.} (Received La.st-N.ighV 10.30 o!clo c k.) '■ bo. ■ The AdiwitpfctfJ reports '"'that the losses imiiomjee(J, ( in the House of Commons on:thev23rd Were the transport An agon, torpedoed and sunk on December 30th, and the auxiliary ship Osmanieh, mined and sunk* on December 31st, both in the same locality in the Eastern Mediterranean. The destroyer cabled on January 7th was torpedoed and sunk wHSbt picking up the Arragon's survivors. The Arragon's casualties numbered 610, including Capt. Battman. The Osmaoieh's • casualties were 199, including Oapt. Mason and eight nurses.