... 101 MILLIONS FOR LOST SHIPS. Colonel Leslie Wilson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping, says that oompensa- Lion paid for British ships lost while under Government requisition and at direct, Government risk is : Amount paid, ...

... the bridge— Am abandoning But the signal was never finished. for the ship's list to port increased rapidly until she gave a lurch and disappeared: In the bubbling, muddy waters the ship's boat rocked and tossed about, and men's heads popped up like currants ...

... we accounted for the Hindenburg and a cruiser. The Hindeideirg seemed to go up in three pieces. We reckon the Germane lost seterel ships by running on to their own mines. It should be stated that. an Amsterdam correspondent says he has good reason to believe ...

... gisid. at Ira Sriew t=■tNMtb Mat RAISE THE STANDARD of WAR SAYINGS _ -- ---, r,-. 0911 Those were black days . . . proud ships lost . . . Hood . . . ilPpulse Prince of Wales . . .an army pushed back.. an air force fightin g fa itt existence . and for ours ...

... distinctly gave the impression that the British had been worsted to an unpardonable degree, and that while our navy bad lost eleven ships, and possibly seventeen, the Germans had escaped with the loss of only two or three. The result was deplorable. It shook ...

... who will spend most of his time in the country and will help the administration to regain the civil character, which it lost, 'ships inevitably, during Mr. Macpherson's prolonged absences from Ireland. Lord French has a high opinion of Kr John Taylor's ...

... nations have suffered. The British Isles, for instance, lost h 7 Meant and sailing vesnels, being •75 per met. of the total of vessels owned. The colonies loth 13, or - 64 per cent. ; America lost 24, or -it per rent. ; Holland only one, or 26 per cent ...

... slips of paper, occasionally get destroyed by accident. They get consumed when a house takes fire, and not a few are lost when ships founder at sea. Occasionally one may have heard of their being eaten by rate, and there is at least one story current ...

... in reference to it all over the country, and Mr. Plimsoll's constant revelations with regard to unseaworthy, missing, and lost ships, and his persistent efforts to effect reform, had aroused an amount of public indignation and expectation which would have ...

... from the 'tween decks. On another ship 200 had to be thrown overboard. A West Hartlepool vessel landed only thirty-three out of 880 cattle shipped ; a Bristol ship only sixteen out of 278 ; 578 cattle were lost on ships arriving at Glasgow ...

... sunk last week was 24—the same total as in the week before,—while the smaller ships lost number four, as against ten. As the Admiralty do not disclose the amount of tonnage lost it is impossible adequately to compare one week's losses with thew of another ...

... coo-1 fined thoroughfares the water flowed inches deep the fall width of the roads, and debris Seated on the to like so many lost ships. In Friar Street—which is subject to flooding in exceptionally severe storms—the underground beck burst from its confining ...