The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
TWO MORE SHIPS
SUNK BY TEUT0NS
British and Norwegian YES
sells Are Destroyed in
Bread War;
LINERS in GRAVE PERIL
Submarine in Direct Lane to Liver
pool-Vessels to Fly the
Irish Flag.

London. Feb. 20.-Rve merchant
since the establishment by the German
admiralty of the maritime war zone
about the British Isles. The decree
has been in effect for three days.
Two were sunk today. They were:
British steamer Cambank, of Car
diff. torpedoed without warning off
Amlwch Bay. Wales, by a German sub
marine, with the loss of the third
engineer. two firemen. and sailor
who was drowned while getting into a
lifeboat.
Norwegian steamer Bjorke, which
struck mine in the North Sea and
sank. The crew. saved by a trawler.
report the steamer was torn to pieces
by the explosion.
Those previously torpedoed were:
Norwegian tank steamer Belidge,
torpedoed by n submarine near Folke-
stone and beached in badly damaged
condition.
Norwegian steamed Nordkyn, sunk
by mine in the Baltic.
French steamship Dinorah, torpedoed
by German submarine.
Crew Had No Chance.
The Cambank was torpedoed without a
chance for her crew to escape lew
miles east of Linas Point. in the irish
Sea, about IL o'clock this morning With
the exception of the four men lost
twenty in all were saved
The vessel was the largest yet de-
stroyed in the bread war" She Vas
80 feet long. had a 47-foot beam and -
feet depth of hold. She was of Bic tons
gross tonnage. She was built in 1899
When torpedoed she was bound from
Huelva to Liverpool with a cargo of
copper. The explosion came as she was
picking up her pilot.
The presence of German submarines Oft
Amlwch is of decided significance to both
British and neutral shipping. it is pointed
out here tonight, because this Is the route
which practically all the Atlanti: liners
take on their way to and from Liverpool
Many merchant vessels of all sorts pass
over the route daily
The Newry Shipping Company's steam
ers hereafter will fly the Irish flag. ac-
cording to an announcement made by
Uloyd's tonight. The move is admittedly
made to win sympathy in America, it
being believed that if a vessel flying the
Irish flag is torpedoed Irish Americans
will rise en- masse against the Teutons.
Tlrdcys Sf1eg ffeBS.
Berlin reports by wireless having re-
ceived a dispatch from Christiania to the
effect that the laval representatives of
the Scandinavian states at the four days
conference just concluded regarding the
diminution of mine danger, have decided
that the mines thus far examined by
them are entirely in accordance with the
requirements of the Hague convention
and also have proposed Joint search for
mine fields.
PIRACY" says the English press today
in commenting upon the Belridge Incl
dent. calls for the punishment accorded
to pirates.' The Pail Mall Gazette and
the Globe particularly classify the Ger
mans as pirates. The Globe says:
IF the Germans take the risk of sink
ing ships without investigation. and one
of them turns out to be an American
vessel. ii Is upon Germany and not upon
Us that the responsibility will fall Mean
time We face plain piracy. We wish the
ministers would cease their talk of their
determination to take effective measures
Of reprisal, but would take them at
once
Berlin. Feb. % tvia Amsterdam).-The
German admiralty announced today that
German submarine had successfully
opened their campaign against the mer.
chant shipping of France and England
In retaliation for Great Britain's policy
of starvation.
It stated that the submarine U-l6 had
been successful in its operations in the
English Channel. but gave no details
as to what It had accomplished. The
C-16 Is one of six vessels whose con-
struction was begun in 191l-12 They were
constructed in secret and are believed
to be the most powerful und Y.zatar
craft In the world,