Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-02-07
NEUTRALS SUFFER
. WITH ALLIES IN
SUBMARINE war
Twelve Vessels Sent to Bottom
Yesterday: Huge Tonnage
Sunk Last Month

PORT SDELAIDE-Briti Captain
Craven. 5I72 net tons: no move
ments given in last maritime regis
ter.
FLoniDIAN--B British. Captain Calvert,
2997 net tons; passed Gibraltar De-
cember 4. Only mention Of her in
maritime register.
Bel FORD-British. Captain Davis.
III net tons; from San Francisco
for Plymouth. August %.
MARA-Norwegian Captain Jacob
sen. 412 net tons; from Black River
for Fleetwood, January s.
WARI.EY-Not given in maritime reg
lister, but there is a steamer Marley
Pickering. British, Capt. Bcag, from
New Orleans for Pensacola Nov. 81;
srriyed 25th and sailed Nov. 26th
for Gibraltar and Genoa.
.BRA.VALLA--Swed.sh, $50 net tons;
left Bombay last month for Cher.
bourg
RIGrI4-French, Captain Ribe. 2l91
net tons: left Rio Janeiro for Mar
settles in November.
WASDALE-NOrwe Capt John
sen, 1912 net tons; left Buenos Aires
December Ia.
|SONDAL-No Norwegian, Captain Ander-
sen, 1926 net tons; left Buenos Aires
for the Azores November "a.
PALMLEAF-British, Captain DEN
les, 3206 net tons, last reported at
Dartmouth.
CALIFORNIAN British, Captain Owen,
2775 net tons position not reported
in last Maritime Register, and be-
lieved to have been on government
service.
THOR NORWEGIAN, bark, Captain
Jacobsen, 1895 net tons, position
not reported.
ASSOCIATED Press by Federal Wirslsss)
WASHINGTON, ID. G., Feb. AT
least Is vessels belonging to British.
Morse, Swedish and French owners
have been sunk by submarines. and
in at least one instance the sinking
was accompanied by fresh barbarities
by the crew of the submarine. That
instance wars IA the case OF the Swed-
ish steamer BravaIla, which was at
tackled by submarine and as her
crew left her In their boats the divers
captain deliberately sprayed them
with the fire of the gun the subma-
rine carried on her bow. The details
have net been received as yet, and 1t
is not known whether any Of the sail
ors lost their lives.
In addition to those reported yester-
day, the Norwegian bark Tamara was
also sunk. says LloyGs despatch.
The survivors of the crew of the
French vessel Rfgel, % in number.
were picked up by British patrol
boat and carried safe to shore The
men were utterly exhausted by their
battle with the wintry seas.
Shortly after the telegraph announc-
ed the rescue Of the crew of the Rigel,
another despatch told of the safety of
the 10 members of the crew Of the
Norwegian ship Wasdale, which was
attacked and sunk with no warning.
Lloyds also reported the arrival on
board trawler OF 25 members Of the
crew of the Norwegian steamer Son.
daI The ship is presumed to have
been sunk by submarine, although as
yet no details have been received in
London.
According to a Central News des-
patch the British steamers Palmleaf
and Californian, and the Norwegian
steamer Thor ii have been torpedoed
md sunk. The crews in each case
were landed.
NEW YORK. n. Y, Feb. Tone
hundred and fifty-four vessels of En-
tente and neutral nations were sunk
by. German submarines and mines
during the month of January, accord
ing to statistics compiled by the Jour-
nal of Commerce. OF this total. "a