Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-08-21

Fourteen steamers with total
gross tonnage of 47,69S have been
sunk in the last as hours by German
submarines, This toll. which estah-
fishes a record for so short n period,
was more than twice as heavy as
that levied by underwater craft in
the preceding week. Three other
vessels reported toredoed may edd
another 1886 tons to the aggregate
destroyed In the past two days, So
far as known there has been no loss
OF life except in the sinking OF the
White Star liner Arabic,
7o,ees Tons In Nine Days.
The recrudescence OF submarine ac-
tivity began on August IL and in the
week ending August IS theN British
admiralty reports officially. thirteen
vessels of q total tonnage of 2a,970
were sunk, eleven OF thern b. under
water craft and two by mines. This
makes a total known loss Of T0,66S
tons of shipping in nine days.
Ten of the vessels sunk in the past
two days were British, three were
Norwegian and one was Spanish. The
total tonnage known to have been lost
Friday was 26,674 and Thursday it
was 21,024.
The largest vessel whose loss has
been confirmed was the Arabic of
1891 tons. Reports that the Lap
land of 1850 tons and the Nicosian
OF 6,369 tons, have been sunk have
not been verified. The fate Of the
pedoed just before the Arabic was
sunk, has not been definitely determ-
fned. The British press association
has denied the reported loss of the
Bowie of $500 tons.
Torpedoed Friday.
Under water craft torepdoed Friday
the British steamer RestormeI, 2,11S
tons; Baron Erskine, 5,5S5 tons; City
of New York, 2,790 tons; Samara
S,172 tons; Gladiator, $3.50 tons; Bit
tern 1877 tons and the Ben Brachie,
S,90S tons, a total of 22,729 tons. The
Norwegian steamers Sverresborg, 674
tons, and the Bras, 1851 tons, as
well as the Spanish steamer Peria
Castillo, 1920 tons also were sunk,
making a grand total of 26,674 tons.
Vessels Sunk Thursday.
The vessels sunk Thursday were the
Arabic 15,801 tons; the Grodno 1856
tons; the Serbino 2,2O5 tons and the
Magda, 1903 tons, total of 21,024
All these vessels were of British regis
try except the Magda, which was
Norwegian.
One of the submarines patrolIing
the war zone halted the Norwegian
mail steamer Irma within Norwegian
territorial waters, but disappeared be-
fore torpedoing the vessel when war
ed by Norwegian torpedo boat that
the attack which apparently was in
neutrality.
Another incident of a day upon
which was written tragic chapter of
sea history was the loss of a British
submarine in The Sound with fifteen
members of her crew. London claims
claims 1t was destroyed"
Reverse for Russians.
Except for another serious reverse
Tor Russian arms there were no
striking developments in the days
military operations. Berlin reported
the fall of the fortress of Novogeoreie-
ysk, where the Muscoyites made their
iast Ia I stand in Poland, with tn loss of
$4,000 prisoners, including six generals.
The bag of artillery at this point
brought up to 700 the total of guns
captured by the Teuton allies in re-
cent operations.
The hard pressed forces of Grand
Duke Nicholas, the Germans claim
have been pushed back to Koterka2
kutva, southwest of Brest -Litoygk.
while they are being pursued east Of
kovno and have lost ground south of
che Bug on the Brest-Litovsk line.
Allies Assault Turkish Positions
The allies on the Gallipoli penin-
Sula are continuing their assaults up
on Turkish positions and the British
left wing has made some progress, an
official report asserts
In the field of diplamacy an open
rupture between Italy and Turkey
apparently is rapidly approaching, ac-
cording to dispatches from Rome.
while reports from the same capital
assert that the entente powers have
succeeded in inducing Serbia to agree
to the immediate cession to Bulgaria
of part of Macedonia in exchange
70 rthe Bulgarian participation in the
war.