_An Associated Press dispatch of July 22 from London remarked:_
So far as British vessels were concerned, the German submarines drew a
blank during the week ended yesterday. Not a single British merchant
ship or fishing craft was sunk.
It was the first week since the war began that some loss to British
shipping had not been occasioned by German cruisers, mines, or
submarines.
During the week 1,326 vessels of more than 300 tons each arrived at or
departed from ports of the United Kingdom.
The German war-zone decree went into effect on February 18. Since then
the weekly losses of ships and lives from torpedoes have been as
follows:
_Week Ending_ _Vessels._ _Lives._
February 25 11 9
March 4 1 0
March 11 7 38
March 18 6 13
March 25 7 2
April 1 13 165
April 8 8 13
April 15 4 0
April 22 3 10
April 29 3 0
May 6 24 5
May 13 2 1,260
May 20 7 13
May 27 7 7
June 3 19 32
June 10 36 21
June 17 19 19
June 24 3 1
July 1 9 29
July 8 15 2
July 15 12 13
July 22 2 0
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Total 218 1,652
Of the two vessels torpedoed in the week of July 22, the Russian
steamer Balwa was attacked on July 16. On the following day another
Russian steamer, the General Radetzky, was torpedoed. Both hailed from
Riga, and the crews of both were saved.