THE U-BOAT WAR

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 240, 28 June 1918, Page 5

THE U-BOAT WAR

SURVIVORS OF TORPEDOED TRANSPORT LANDED I New York, June 26. Pift.v-seven of Hie siirrkora of the crew of the American transportw.hich was torpedoed off the coast have landed. They rowed and sailed in a- lifeboat for 200 miles. They were exposed in the open boat for six days, and experienced terrible sufferings before they wero picked up. One vessel fired on the lifeboat, mistaking it for a U-boat. Three of the transport's lifeboats tiro still missing.— ins.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REPORTED SINKING OF TWO LINERS (Rec. June 27, 5.5 p.m.) New York, Juno 2G. The New York "Times"' learns that two steamers, the Pomeranian and the Medora, have been torpedoed, in European waters. Sixty an missing from the Pomeranian—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. '■ BRITISH SHIPPiGToSS FOR MAY London, Juno 26. The Admiralty announces the losses of merchant tonnage for the month ot May duo to enemy action. The marine risk totalled: British 7,770,843 tons, Allied and neutral 130,959, as compared with the adjusted aggregate for April 311,456 tons, and compared wuli C30,.«u tons for Maj J , of 1917. The losses from niariuo risk are staled to have been unduly heavy last month. —Aus.-Is./. Cable' Assn.-Eewtor. The British losses were 216,000 tons in March last, and 220,709 in April. Allied and neutral nations lost 166,000 tons m March and 84,393 in April. Those are the figures of the monthly returns, but the "adjusted aggregate" for April mentioned in the cablegram shows an increase in the earlier figures of about 0000 tons.