THE U-BOAT WAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 134, 23 February 1918, Page 7

THE U-BOAT WAR

. FRENCH SHIPPING LOSSES (Rec. February 22, 8.20 p.m.) London, February ■ 21. The French official figures of submarine losses for the week,! with last week's returns in parentheses, are:— Arrivals 919 (891) Departures 876 (841) Sunk over 1600 tons 0 (1) Sunk under 1600 tons ... 0 (1) Unsuccessfully attacked 3 (1) —Aus:-N.Z. Cable ABsn.-Reutcr. ITALIAN SHIPPING LOSSES. (Rec. February 22, 8.20 p.m.) Home, February 21. An Italian official report states that two steamers were sunk.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Reuter. [Last week's return showed that the arrivals totalled 487, and tho sailings 431. The .sinkings included four steamerl; over fifteen hundred tons and three sailing ships under one hundred tons. One of tho sailing ships was damaged.] FAMOUS FRENCH AIRMAN ESCAPES (Rec. February 23, 5.5 p.m.) Amsterdam, February 22. Tho famous French airman Gerros Marcbal has escaped from Germany. Marohal, it will be remembered, flew over Berlin, and just failed to reach the Russian lines.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PEACE DEMAND IN AUSTRIA SOCIALIST PPESS I! HE IN THE REICHSRATH. (Rec. February 22, 8.20 p.m'.) Berne, February 21. The Socialists in tho Austrian R-eichs-rath demand that tho Government shall accept the peaco principles in President Wilson's speech, and forthwith begin negotiations for a general peaco.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WILL GERMANY GIVE UP BELGIUM? WHAT YON TICPITZ SAi'S. (lU'c. February 22, 8.20 p.m.) Amsterdam, February 22. Admiral von Tirpit-z, speaking at a Pan-German meeting at Mannheim, said that whatever might be the results on their Eastern front, the only tiling that mattered to Gennany.was the defeat of Anglo-Americanism. This could only be possible by insisting that in the future Germany instead of England should protect Belgium. If Germany surrendered Belgium she' would be the laughing-stock of the world.— Aus.-V.Z. Cable Assn.