The Admiralty announced on Monday that between March 18th and
14th seven British merchantmen were attacked by German submarines. The • Adenwen ' (3,798 tons) was torpedoed in the English Channel and was towed into Cher- bourg. The • Florazan ' (4,658 tons) was torpedoed in the Bristol Channel. The 'Headlands' (2.988 tons). which did not sink, the 'Indian City' (4,815 tone), and the • Andalusian' (2.350 tons) were torpedoed off the Scillies. The 'Invergyle (1.194 tons) was torpedoed off Oresswell in Northumberland, and the • Hartdale (3,839 tons). whidh, however, did not sink, in the Irish Channel. Practically all the crews were saved, three lives only being lost. The submarine which made so lar ae. a ball off the Scillies was the'' C29.' She towed some of the boats of the merchantmen towards St. Mary's, and the captain seems to have been liberal with his cigars and wine. She came, indeed, so close to the laird that her movements were watched by the inhabitants of the island. Two patrol boats put out and fired on her, but she aucceededin escaping. On Thursday the Admiralty made the farther announcement that the Atlanta'019tonslwas torpedoed off Inistitark on March 14th,
but reached harbour, and that the ` Fingal' (1,562 tons) was torpedoed and sunk off the Northumberland coast on March 15th. Six lives were lost in the 'Fingal,' including the stewardess. A telegram from Amsterdam on Thursday announced the sinking of the steamship 'Leeuwarden' off the Dutch coast on March 17th. The crew were saved. The papers of Friday announced that on Thursday the steamship ' Glenartney' was torpedoed near Beachy Head. One life was lost, an apprentice aged nineteen being drowned.
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