Evening star., 1916-04-14
Vast Tonnage Destroyed in
March by U-Boats or Mines,
Says Berlin. II
MANY MORE VESSELS
SUNK IN LAST FEW DAYS
American Sailor in Crew Of British
Steamer Inverlyon, Recently
Torpedoed.

BERLIN, April IA, by wireless to
Sayville, n. Y.-A statement issued
by the German admiralty under date of
April Is says that in the month OF
March eighty trading vessels belonging
to hostile countries. with an aggregate
tonnage of 100000. were sunk by Ger
man submarines or their mines.
Recent Ship Losses.
LONDON, April 14.-Capt. Charleston
and eleven men of the British steanss
ship Inverlyon were landed today aS
Queenstown and reported that their ves-
sci had been sunk by a submarine on
Tuesday afternoon. One Of the members
OF the crew who was rescued Is an
American. William Loss. Another boat
from the Inverlyon, containing eleven
men, is missing.
The British steamship Angus is re-
ported by Lloyds to have been tor
There are two British steamships An
gus. The larger, which probably is
the one referred to, was last reported
on her arrival at Suez on March IL on
voyage from Calcutta for Bilbao.
Her gross tonnage was s.61s: She
Crew Is Picked Up.
The steamer Mallorca has arrived at
Barcelona from Ma ajorca. On the voy-
age she picked up the crew of the
British steamer orlock Head, which
had been torpedoed.
The Orlock Head was last reported
as having sailed from the Clyde March
19 for Genoa. She was a steamer of
1.945 tons and was built in 1913. Her
home port was Belfast.
The Dutch steamship Colombia, from
Baltimore. March 90. for Amsterdam.
damaged by striking a mine In the
English channel Wednesday.
The Colombia, a s, 5,500-ton steamship,
built in Holland last year, Is owned in
New York.
Fate of Sailors Unknown.
The steamer Valkona has arrived at
Barcelona with hve officers and
twenty-one members of the crew Of the
British steamer Angus. which was
torpedoed. The fate of the remainder
of the crew is not known.
The Danish steamer Dorthea struck
mine Monday and foundered imme-
diately, says a Lloyds Amsterdam dis
ed at Ymuiden. The captain was
wounded.
The only vessel named Dorthea men,
toned in the maritime registers ie the
Danish bark Dorthea, of 2l5 tons. She
was last reported at La Rochelle. Oc-
tober 10.
Vegas Crew Is Landed.
PALMA DE MAJoRcA. Baieartc
Islands, April 1.-THE Barcelona
packet Jaime III has arrived here with
from Bahia, which recently saved 143
passengers of the Spanish steamer
Principe de Asturias. which sank on
Santos March 5. with the loss Of a
large number Of her passengers and
crew.
The Vega was torpedoed and sunk
tice. according to the captain The
captain says the commander OF the
submarine told him that II tho vega
had been British instead of French he
would have sunk her without warning;
The Vega, which Was last reported
to have arrived at Santos, Brazil, early
in March. on a voyage from swansea,
was a vessel of 2.957 tons and was
built in 1898. Her home port was MAr-
seille.
More Mail Held Up.
KIRKWALL, April 14.-The Scandi-
navian- American line steamship United
States has arrived at Christiania, hav-
ing left / 900 bags of parcel mail at Kirk
wall by order of the British authorities
there, says Copenhagen dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company. Only two
bags of parcel mall were allowed to pass.
these being addressed to the American
gunboat stationed at Constantinople The
dispatch adds that $4,000 boxes OF Cali
fornia fruit were also taken from the
vessel.
No Fragments Found.
THE HAGUE. April 1.-THE minister
of marine today made public the follow
ing communications:
THE favorable weather has enabled
divers to enter the steamer Tubantia.
whose damaged starboard side is only ten
meters below the surface. No remains of
a torpedo or mine have been discovered.
but more pieces Of metal have been found
in another Tubantia lifeboat picked up
near Terschelling. one being part OF the
mechanism of a torpedo. punched with a
number. which probably will definitely fix
the identity of the torpedo which hit the
Tubantia. The government has asked
A.