We regret to record the loss of the auxiliary cruiser
'13ayano: which was sunk by a German submarine on March 11th. Twenty-six of the crew were saved, moat of them being reamed from a raft by the steamship ' Balmerino' while on a passage to Ayr. Several were in the last stages of exhaustion, and three were eariously injured. They said that the Bayano' was torpedoed at five o'clock that morning and sank in about three minutes. The majority of the orew were asleep below, and this accounted for the great lofts of life. Practically all the rescued were deck bands. No engineers or firemen were saved. The collier 'St Catherine' brought into Belfast two of the 'Bayano's' rafts which bad been found empty at sea. The captain of the • Bayano,' Commander H. C. Carr, went down with the ship. lie was last seen on the boat-deck quietly telling a man who spoke to him to save himself.
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