Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-07-29
TEN MORE VESSELS FALL
VICTIMS TO SUBMARINES
Total Of Twenty-Five Destroyed In
Two Days by German Under.
sea Boats.
SWARM IN BRITISH WATERS
Several Lives Are Believed Lost in
Latest Raid, but in Most Cases
Crews Given Time to Escape From
Doomed Ships.

Especial Gable to The Times Dispatch
LONDON July 2S.-German subma-
rines. swarminr British waters in n
renewed campaign TO sweep ships bear
ing food and supplies TO England from
the seas. have sunk ten more vessels,
making twenty-five within the last two
days.
Several men are missing. and are be-
lieved TO have been lost. as the result
of to-day's activity of the undersca
raiders. In n majority Of cases how
ever. the Germans gave their prey
sufficient warning TO allow the sailors
TO escape. one submarine took the
crews of four destroyed ships aboard
until Norwegian steamer could be
stopped and the men placed on board
her.
Secretary Mcnamara, for the admit
rally. to-day announced that up to
July 81 only l.55o persons had been
killed as the result OF German sub
marine attack on British merchantmen
since the beginning Of the war. This
list of dead includes the Lusitania vic
Tins. indicating that loss Of life has
been small in submarine attacks against
other British ships.
Secretary McNamara's statement an
have been killed in submarine attacks
on neutral merchantmen.
or the ten ships sent down to-day
six are known to have been neutrals,
three Danish. two Swedish and one
Norwegian They were all bound for
British ports, bearing either food war
supplies or lumber.
The largest vessel to fail victim to
the submarine raiders during the day
was the Glasgow steamer Mangara,
bound from Bilbao, Spain. to West
Hartlepool with a cargo Of iron ore.
The Mangara was sent to the bottom
by n torpedo off the coast of Suffolk
She was a vessel of ] ,S21 TONS carried
n crew of eighteen, and OF which a
number at last reports were missing.
Two neutral steamers and three
barks were dispatched i'm the North
Sea by what is believed here to have
been the same submarine. The Swed-
ish steamer Madonna fell victim first
She was bound from Halmstead for
Hartlepool. and had on board a cargo
of mining timber. The crew OF the
submarine set fire to her and watched
her burn to the waters edge. Her
crew was saved.
The Swedish steamer Emma and
three Danish schooners, the Maria
Ncptunas and Lena. were destroyed off
Longstone by submarine, the crew
of which placed bombs aboard them,
sprinkled infiammable liquid about and
| then set off the bombs. All the yes
sells were timbcr-laden and easy prey
TO the flames. Their crews were taken
aboard the submarine. which later
halted the Norwegian steamer Habil
and put them aboard. The men were
landed at Blyth to-day.
German submarines also set fire to
the Norwegian bark Sagnadelen, tim
ber-laden. Her crew was landed at
Grimsby and reported that a similar
attack had been made on another sail
ing vessel, which they were unable to
Identify
Three more trawlers have been sunk
in the sudden German attack on the
British hshing industry, which was
heralded yesterday by raid on the
fishing banks and n heavy loss among
the trawiers there. The latest trawlers
to be sent down were the Iceni, Salicia
and Westward-Ho. They were sunk
by bombs and their crews landed at
Lowestof.