Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1917 — 4,500,000 Tons of Shipping Gone In Eight Months. [ARTICLE]

4,500,000 Tons of Shipping Gone In Eight Months.

London, Sept. 9.—ln view of the American peculiarity of being able to\put forththe beet efforts when the people know what they are up against, cretain facts about the submarine campaign, which now constitutes the most menacing phase of Germany’s attack on world civilization, are -hereby given. They may be relied on as accurate. It is not thought necessary to deal in figures below thousands. Following, in terms of tonnage, are the monthly sinkings by German submarines from January to August, inclusive, the figures being for the allies and neutrals in the aggregate: January 332,000 February . 479,000 March ...... ... 600,000 April 788,000 May 549,000 June *.. 758,000 July 463,000 August 591,000 Against the loss of about four and a half million tons in months, new construction is estimated at less than a million tons, leaving a net loss to allied and neutral shipping at about three and a half million tons. The loss to American shpiping is said to have been less than one-half of 1 per cent. While the decline in shipping loss in July and August was substantial, it cannot be regarded as satisfactory, and the situation continues to call for the kind of activity demanded by a great emergency.