The New York herald., 1921-11-30
10000 MURDERS ARE
LAID TO SUBMARINES
Estimates Include Only
Those Who Were Non
combatants in War.
TOTAL MAY BE LARGER
Almost 1900 British and
Americans Were Slain
in Attacks.
NAVAL CRAFT EXCLUDED
Statistics Being Prepared to
Show Necessity of Restrict
NAVAL CRAFT EXCLUDED
Statistics Being Prepared to
Show Necessity of Restrict
ing Submersibles' Use.

Special Despatch to TIE NEW York HERALD
New York Herald Bureau,
Washington, ID. c., Nov. 30.
Upwards of 10000 men, women and
children lost their lives through illegal
submarine warfare during the great war,
according to the latest estimates that
have been brought before the delegates
to the armament conference. These per-
sons were drowned, killed by explosions
or died from exposure while aboard
merchant vessels and fishing craft
or this number 1928 We're aboard
British vessels of all descriptions, ex-
cept those listed as naval vessels, while
4OS were aboard vessels flying the Amer
lean hag; ssixty-sx before the United
States entered the war and 342 after
the United States cast its lot with the
Allies. No vessels are included which
IN any way can be classed as fighting
craft. The total merely is one OF non
combatants going about their peaceful
missions, but victims. without fault of
their own, to outlawszw arfare conducted
by the Central Powers
The remainder included in the csti-
mate of 10000 were subjects of coun-
tries other than the United States and
Great Britain. The figure is regarded
by naval authorities as the minimum
Accurate figures now are being compiled
by the French. Italian. Norwegian, Scan
dinavian, Belgian and other govern
ments. including Japan and China, bu;
so far they have not arrived at the Navy
Department in Washington. With the
losses of the United States and Great
Britain definitely fixed at almost $4,000
the estimate of the other losses is re-
garded as low.
U. s. Figures just Compiled.
The British Government figures have
been available for some time, but thess
of the United States have just been COM
piled, and they now are available for
the delegates to the conference so that
the terrors of this kind Of warfare may
be before them in concrete form for ac-
ton. The British losses aboard mer-
chant vessels, exclusive Of fishing craft
attributed to- submarines. mines and air.
craft amounted to, 14,2S7 men. women
and children. But the submarine losses
naturally were in the preponderance, al
12,72S.
The British submarine losses have
been tabulated in three groups. Those
lost from merchant vessels. 1923. all
OF which vessels were destroyed those
lost from merchant vessels which were
dlldChu ny DuI IlOt utSlIOs GU,
512, and those lost from fishing vessels,
9S. The total for merchant vessels at
tackled but not destroyed amounted TO
592. when attacks of submarines, mines
and aircraft are considered altogether.
The total for fishing vessels attacked
by submarines or damaged by mines
was 434. Mines, of course, did the
greatest damage to fishing vessels, since
the German submarine commanders did
not regard such craft as worthy of an
expensive torpedo.
The British Admiralty has not di-
vfded the losses into groups so that the
nationality of the victims may be known
but there is no question that there
were many Americans included. Aboard
the Lusitania alone, when there was a
loss of 1.196 lives, there were more than
100 American men, women and children.
The American figures, similarly, are not
divided into groups Of nationalities.