Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1917 — MANY NEUTRAL SHIPS SUNK [ARTICLE]

MANY NEUTRAL SHIPS SUNK

German Submarines Have Killed 250 Americans. Washington, D. C., April 11. — German submarines have sunk during the war a grand total of 686 neutral vessels, including nineteen American, and have attacked unsuccessfully seventy-nine others, including eight American, according to an official tabulation given at the state department and complete pup to April 3. Since the German ! war zone went into effect, on February 1, more than one-third of the ' vessels sunk have been neutral, 'and a large number of other neutral vessels have been terrorizd into staying in port. No estimate is available of the number of lives lost on neutral .vessels, but it is known to have (been large. Official reports show that about 250 Americans have been lost on neutral and belliger- , ent stea'riier's together.