nt for the purpose from England. Each was manned by four
officers and eighteen men, to take them across the Atlantic. Never
before in history had so many submarines undertaken a voyage as great.
They got under way from Quebec on July 2, 1915, and proceeded in
column two abreast, a big auxiliary cruiser, which acted as their
escort steaming in the center.

The next large liner which had an encounter with the German submarine
_U-39_ was the _Anglo-Californian_. She came into Queenstown on the
morning of July 5, 1915, with nine dead sailors lying on the deck,
nine wounded men in their bunks, and holes in her sides made by shot
and shell. She had withstood attack from a German submarine for four
hours. Her escape from destruction was accomplished through only the
spirit of the captain and his crew, combined with the fact that patrol
vessels came to her aid forcing the submarine to submerge.

A variety in the methods used by the commanders of German submarines
was revealed in the stopping of the Norwegian ship _Vega_ which was
stopped on the 15th of July, while voyaging from Bergen to Newcastle.
The submarine came alongside the steamship at night and the commander
of the submarine supervised the jettisoning of her cargo of 200 tons
of salmon, 800 cases of butter, and 4,000 cases of sardines, which was
done at his command under threat of sinking his victim.

The week of July 15, 1915, was unique in that not one British vessel
was made the victim of a German submarine during that period, though
two Russian vessels had been sunk. Figures compiled by the British
admiralty and issued on the 22d of July, 1915, gave out the following
information concerning the attacks on merchantmen by German submarines
since the German admiralty's proclamation of a "war zone" around Great
Britain went into effect on the 18th of February, 1915.

The official figures were as follows:

Week ending Vessels lost Lives lost
Feb. 25, 1915 11 9
March 4, " 1 None
March 11, " 7 38
March 18, " 6 13
March 25, " 7 2
April 1, " 13 165
April 8, " 8 13
April 15, " 4 None
April 22, " 3 10
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