The Admiralty on Friday week published the names of a
hundred and fifty commanders of German submarines which our Navy has disposed of. A hundred and sixteen of these men are dead, twenty- seven are prisoners, six are interned in neutral countries, and one escaped to Germany. The list of dead includes Captain-Lieutenant Schwieger, who sank the 'Lusitania'; Captain-Lieutenant Schneider, who sank the Arabic ' ; and Captain-Lieutenant Wagenfuhr, the brutal ruffian who lined up on his deck forty survivors from the Belgian Prince' and then submerged, leaving the unhappy men to drown. It is good to learn that Wagenfuhr's U44' was sunk with all hands a fortnight after that despicable crime. Five other officers of Wagenfuhr's type, includItig one Werner, who specializes in sinking hospital ships, are being sought after, but several of them have taken refuge in ports ashore. The German Admiralty, in a semi-official reply to this statement, could only say that some of the details of rank were incorrect, " which does not allow any conclusions to be drawn as to the number of U '-boats lost." It admitted that the U '-boats had been sacrificed " in increasing numbers," owing to our counter-measures and to the larger number of U '-boats employed. Even the German public must think this a poor answer to the most effective piece of propaganda that our Admiralty has yet issued.
