Sir Eric Geddes gave in the House of Commons on March 19 figures of
shipping losses which are given in detail elsewhere in this number of
CURRENT HISTORY MAGAZINE, also figures made public by the British
Admiralty on March 21 are given elsewhere.
The Royal Mail steamer Amazon and the Norwegian steamship Stolt-Neilson,
commandeered by the British, were sunk March 19.
The steamship Conargo was torpedoed in the Irish Sea March 31, and the
lifeboats were shelled.
The armed boarding steamer Tithonus was sunk March 28, and the sinking
of the steamship Carlisle Castle was reported April 2.
On April 1 the Celtic was torpedoed off the Irish coast, but reached
port in safety.
The American steamer Chattahoochee, formerly the German Sachsen, was
sunk off the English coast on March 25.
The Spanish steamers Arpillao and Begona were sunk March 25.
The Italian steamer Alessandra was sunk off the Island of Madeira April
2.
The Ministre de Smet de Naeyer, a Belgian relief ship, was sunk in the
North Sea on April 6, and twelve members of the crew were lost.
As a result of the commercial agreement between Spain and the United
States, German submarines began a blockade of Spanish ports, April 11.
Because a German submarine had captured a Uruguayan military commission
bound for France, the Government of Uruguay on April 11 asked Berlin,
through Switzerland, whether it considered that a state of war existed
with Uruguay.