28 JULY 1917, Page 2

The enemy submarines took a somewhat larger toll of our

merchant ships last week, sinking nineteen vessels over 1,600 tone, as compared with fifteen the week before, and^thirteen in the first week of July. Three smaller 'missals were Also sunk,and twelve nest& heat; off their assailants. We regseti to add that an enemy submarine last Sunday sank in Northern Waters an, armed Merchant cruiser,- the Otway,' once a well-known Orient liner. It is reported by the Germans that the British submarine' C34' has been sunk by ens of theireubmarines, all but one of the crew perishing. This is not the first recorded instance of a fight between under-water craft. Two at least of the Austrian submarines in the Adriatic have been sunk by Allied vessels of the same type.