3 APRIL 1915, Page 2

A smaller loss of life was caused the day before—last

Saturday—when the cargo steamship • Aguila' was torpedoed off Pembroke. Eight of the crew and one passenger were killed or drowned. The Aguila ' tried to escape, but could do only fourteen knots to the eighteen of the submarine. The submarine fired on the crew while they were launching their boats, killing five persons and wounding several others. With such a speed a submarine eau, of course, overhaul almost anything. Merehantmen without guns have little chance against the latest German submarines. That is a fact which we ought frankly to recognize, while remembering that this type of submarine is not numerous enough to make any real impression on our commerce, even though many of our merchantmen should remain unarmed.