The old cruiser H.M.S. ' Ariadne ' has been sunk
by an enemy submarine. Unhappily thirty-eight men were killed by the ex- plosion of the torpedo ; the rest of the ship's company were saved. The' Ariadne,' launched in 1898, had long been obsolete ; the class of large, slow, and weakly armed cruisers to which she belonged has been at a disadvantage in this war, as every one anticipated. The 'U '-boats sank last week eighteen British merchantmen over 1,600 tons—one less than in the preceding week. We thus suffered less in the four weeks of July than in any corresponding period since March. One of the enemy submarines grounded near Calais on Thursday week ; the crew were captured by Belgian cavalry. Another, it is stated, was sunk on July 22nd by the Japanese in the Mediterranean. There are others which will not return.
