The Washington herald., 1915-05-08

The commerce activities OF
! Germany since January IS have resulted
| in the sinking of five ships of United
States registry. and the attack OF sixth
| by German aeroplane.
| The same activities, exclusive OF the
| I.usitania incident. have resulted in the
death of seventeen Americans, on these
or other ships
The William p. Frye. an American sail
| ing vessel loaded with wheat from Seattle
to Liverpool. was dynamited and sunk by
| the converted German cruiser Prince
Eitel Friedrich January % in the
South Atlantic. Capt. II. II. Kiehne and
his crew were given five minutes to leave
her after they had worked all afternoon
and night throwing her cargo overheard
under the watchful eyes of the Eiters
captain.
The American steamship Evelyn struck
| mine in the North Sea on February q
! and sank in a very few minutes. Thir-
teen of her crew could not get of before
| she went down.
| The American steamer Carb was sunk
| in the North Sea by a mine on Febru-
| airy .. The loss in property has never
| been definitely settled. No lives were
| lost.
On March IS the British liner Falaba.
| bound for the west coast of Africa, was
| torpedoed and sunk by a German sub
marine in st. Georges channel. Leon c.
| Thras her, an American civil engineer.
was among the 10 persons who went
down. The submarines captain said he
! could not stand by until all the passen-
gers and officers left the ship, fearing
British ship which was coming up.
The Standard oil Company's tank
steamer Gushing was attacked by Ger
man aeroplanes in the North Sea. April
2s. The ship was damaged, but no lives
were lost
The tank steamship GulfliSht was tor
pcdoed on May by German submarine
off the Scily Islands. Three members of
her crew were killed and the vessel was
beached.
The German blockade declared around
the British Isles and sought to he effec-
tuated by mines and submarines has cost
IS lives. exclusive of Americans or the
Lusitania incident. Since this blockade
went into effect March Is. 1o1 ships have
been sunk by German torpedocs or by
mines in this war zone. OF these ships.
twenty-five belonged TO neutral nations.
The following list. as complete as re-
turns to date permit does not include any
ships sunk or lives lost outside OF this
war zone. 1t represents almost exclu-
sively the sum total of German subma-
rine activities since March is. less than
two monts ago.
FEBRUARY.
1s-Steamer Horacio. Spanish; mine.
1s-Steamer Svarton. Swedish; mine
1S-Steamer Nordcap. Norwegian;
mine: entire crew drowned.
19-Steamer Dinorah, French: tor
pedoed.
1s-Steamer Belridge. Norwegian;
torpedoed: eighteen missing.
21-Steamer Cambank. British; tor
pedoed: four drowned.
21-Steamer Bjorke. Norwegian;
mine.
e1-steamer Downshire. British;
torpedoed.
e3-steamer Regin. Norwegian;
mine.
23-Steamer Branksome Chine. Brit
ish: torpedoed.
24-Steamer Harpalian. British; tor
pedoed: three killed.
24-Steamer Deptford. British: tor
pedoed: one killed.
2i-Steamer Oakby. British; torpe-
doed.
24-steamer Rio Parana. British.
torpedoed.
24-steamer Noonderdyk. Dutcn:
mine.
e5-schooner Western Coast: torpe-
doed.
26-Steamer Mars. Swedish: mine.
MARCH.
7-Steamer Bengrove. British; tor
pedoed.
S-Steamer Tangislan, British; tor
pedoed: thirty-seven of crew hst.
Steamer Blackwood. British: tor
pedoed.
s-Steamer Princess Victoria. Brit
ish: torpcdoed.
10-Steamer Beethoven, British; mine
or torpedo.
10-Trawler Grisney. British: tor
pedoed.
11-Steamer Indian Head. British;
torpedoed.
11-Steamer Headlands. British; tor
pedoed.r
11-Steamer Hart Dale. British; tor
pedoed.
1l-Stesmer Andalusisn. British; tor |
pedoed.
11-Steamer Floregan. British; tor
pedoed.
l2-Steamer lnvergil, British: tor
pedosd.
1@Steamer Hanna. Swedish; miue:
two killed.
vegian; torpedos4