The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-04-19
SHIPPING LOSSES
For WEEK SHOW
BIG b Squirt UPWARD

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LOSSES LAST Tear tFeIl Even
ai 4RnlnnI fhn Evnacf a fio,,, nd tho
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fEStlIlateS OF the BRUSH war
n Cabinet Stt
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Ifrreas) 55flleuton IAupmafine EFFORTS and
activities took sudden squirt last week
and from n minimum az gsnceess dur
;,,,.,ho ,o,,i,.. u - -. .....oa.L.
LIZ 10 I! - FfSSsNI'yi''e'"S. "Pp' WV,
ed he average, since tue unrestricted
eRmpaiRn commanded. Losses report
ID by the admiralty for the week end
iut last Saturday4.were eleven vessels
Of moro than. 1900 tons. four smaller
merchant ships, and one fisherman.
Lass Under EstfmatesA -
| tErt It7.E7, H@ ?. -,
merchant sbinnins ossa,n snhm mo ,;ro ot,,
taGks and marine risks from the BEGIN.
ming Of the war to the end Of 1917. has
been, thirty percent less than the Brit
is, authorities estimated hast July. as.
serts the British war cabinet in its first
annual report lust published.
Thif net PRODUCTION, "a announced
by. the war cabinet. Is "under 2,75O,.
600 tons gross OF sixteen percent.
These figures coincide Approximately
with the, secret report Of the British
| admiralty on submarine shippinr losses
and world shipbuildinp made public by
the British embassy In W6sbinpton late
in March. The admiralty figures show
cd that the total>loss TO allied and neu
! trail shipping since the beginning Of the
| war, to the end Of 1917. was 1897 .572
lypross tons. Shipyards 9ontside the Cen
| trail Powers had meantime turned out
o COG 2T5 tons and there was added to
this output 2,5s9,ooo tons of enemy
vesseIs ehptnrod ana Drought INTO S,t'-
@e. Inc totai net loss 10 woFin SHip.
ing run al causes eAcluN'e o'
InAt On 'uermahy anu her aIIlts ma s
Wefu by the alhuralty at %'""|'-''
IONS
3xagger"ttons Shown
The war cabinet, summarizing the
,hippipr situation, declares, in it's re-
oort. that 1.-THE effect Of the intensified
| mbmarire warfare" has been far he
| low what the German peOIre were
promised. The German Official figures
I or SentPmber claim $4,000 tons, but
! hnv actually sunk less than half Of
his. amount of all nationalities Yet
in September the overseas sailings Of
Ibips were twenty percent grenter in
rumbers and thirty percent greater in
onDanr> than in April.
1.-The general result Of the German
,ttack. though serious enough is not
Inprecedented. In the two wears af.
or Trafalgar, when our command of
he seas was uuqucsuoned we still los;
'o4O merrna"' s"'PS ny ,"n,u.'' , "Ig
!" '"e """'e m,i oo ''"'i
we 'ost o'F' l''""' 'h'P
| Sosses OF Enemy
"Nor should we lose sight of the
."'-- ha"vv losses sustained by the
enemy in the present war. At the
commencement or hostilitias Germany
Ind 9l5 ships abroad, of which only
1873 got home safely The remainder
| within few DAYS were cleared from
the oceans. In the aggregate the Ger.
nan mercantile marire consisted of
over 5000 900 tors; Mt the present time
early half nf this has been sunk or
.aptured. while tn" bulk of the rest
is living useless in harbor.
Describing the steps taken to tgh'
he r-boats. the war cabinet ann"unc-
d that 340O vessels now are employed
u minrsn rrpprs and on auxiliary pa
'roI duties and"their number constantly
IS increasing
The convoy system of protecting YES,
sells from submarine attack is declnr
cd by the cabinet to have been "mark
EDDY effective in reducing the losses.
It adds:
Work of oonvovs
~D.-;. 49, ,a., ton n.hs oyo,
D"''"s ,n' sc " 81, 1911 aa;i;nU IN
I sm ~ r. Hamt;a ,rados "oro "nnveveJ
:" ~" ,; 49, ..artoL tbf