The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-02-09
DIVERS TOLL is
IS SHIPS IN DAY
Passenger Liner Adelaide Is
Among Victims.
GO PASSENGERS PICKED UP

Russian and Norwegian Ships Are
Among Lost-American Liners Are
Booking for Two Steamers-Phila-
deIphia and Finland to SaiI-WiIi
Defy Submarines.
LONDON. = Fifteen ships with
1880 tons aggregate were the toll
of the first day of full-fledged U-boat
warfare. The period of grace given by
Germany to neutral shipping in the
barred zones" expired early in the
morning and the days havoc raised by
the U-bOats is belieevd to be indica-
tive of the proportions to be main
tanned hereafter in Germany's cam
paign to starve out England.
The vessels sunk include seven Brit
ish, five Norwegian, one Russian, one
Swedish and one Spanish ship.
LONDON - Eleven vessels, one
passenger liner, constituted the days
toll of Germany's U-boat blockade. The
total tonnage destroyed in twenty
four hours amounts to 1864 tons
This added to the total tonnage sunk
in the first five days of unrestricted
U-boat warfare makes 1854 tons de-
strOyed in six days, or more than 49,
900 tons day.
Adelaide Largest Ship.
The largest ship sunk was the Brit
ish passenger liner Port Adelaide, of
8,181 tons registered and owned at
London. Ninety-six passengers have
been picked up from the sea. The cap
tain was taken prisoner by the U-boat
commander The loss of life incurred
in the sinking of the Port Adelaide is
unknown.
Other vessels sent to the bottom
were:
Floridian, British, of Leyland line,
Att tons, hailing from Liverpool. Six
teen of her crew are known to have
been saved.
Wartenfels, British, owned at Lon
don, 4,511 tons; was requisitioned by
the British admiralty.
Farley Pickering, British, owned at
Middlesboro, 4,196 tons.
Cerera, Russian, owned at Odessa,
1872 tons.
Tamara, Norwegian, 453 tons.
American Liners Accept Bookings.
LONDON = The American line
announces that it is accepting book
ingS for the steamers Philadelphia and
Finland
The Philadelphia is scheduled on
the sailing list of the American line
to leave Liverpool Feb. 10 and the
Finland Feb. Is for New York.
Bravalla, Swedish, 1858 tons.
Bedford, British, 1856 tons.
Rigel, Norwegian, LII tons.
Songdal, Norwegian, 1889 tons.
Wasdale, Norwegian, 1856 tons.
Big Liners Defy Submarines.
NEW YORK, N. Y-The German
blockade declaration has not delayed
the transportation of war materials
and munitions from the United States
to Great Britain and France. Cargo
manifests in the custom house here
show that five steamships on their
way from this port to Europe carry
enough contraband war goods to equip
an army corps.
Two of these vessels fly French
colors The others are of British regis
try 1t is believed in shipping circles
that because of the value of their car
goes Great Britain has made arrange
ments to convoy these ships through
the danger zone.
Three of them left New York after
the date on which Germany declared
for unrestricted submarine warfare.
Four of them-the Rochambeau, for
Bordeaux; the Adriatic, the Carmania
and the Baltic, for Liverpool-carry
passengers.
No Contraband on U. S. Ships.
The two American passenger ships
now at sea, according to the declara-
ton of agents of the line, carry no
contraband. They are the Kroonland,
which sailed for Liverpool Jan. 81.
and the New York, which departed
from the same port Feb. 8.
Thirteen Survivors Land.
BREST, FRANCE = The captain
and twelve men of the Spanish steam
er Algeria, which was sunk by sub
marine, have been landed here by a
steam trawler They were adrift for
forty-six hours before being rescued
and two sailors, Bartholeme Peregan
and Jose Urvos, died as a result of
their privations soon after being
taken aboard the trawler. The hands
and feet of the other refugees were
frozen and the men are in the sea.
mems hospital.