itish shipping periodicals, showing how a submarine might
be sunk by being rammed. It was officially announced on the 5th
of March, 1915, by the British admiralty, that the _U-8_ had been
rammed and sunk by a British warship. The crew of twenty-nine was
rescued and brought to Dover. For the British this was a stroke
of good fortune, for while the _U-8_ was of an earlier type it
was a dangerous craft, having a total displacement of 300 tons,
a radius of operation of 1,200 miles, a speed of 13 knots when
traveling "light" and a speed of 8 knots when submerged. On the
same day the French minister of marine announced that a French
warship had come upon a German submarine of the type of the _U-2_
in the North Sea and that after firing at the hull of the vessel
and hitting it three times it was seen to sink and did not reappear.

During the last week of February and the first week of March, 1915,
bad weather on the waters surrounding the British Isles hampered
the operations of German submarines to an extent which led the
British public to believe that the submarine warfare on merchantmen
had been abandoned, but they were disillusioned when on the 9th
of March, 1915, three British ships were sunk by the underwater
craft. The steamship _Tangistan_ was torpedoed off Scarborough, the
_Blackwood_ off Hastings and the _Princess Victoria_ near Liverpool.
Part of this was believed to be the work of the _U-16_.

In the three days beginning March 10, 1915, eight ships were made
victims of German submarines in the waters about the British Isles.
Most novel was the experience of a crowd gathered on the shore of
one of the Scilly Islands on March 12, 1915, when two of these
eight ships, the _Indian City_ and the _Headlands_, were torpedoed.
At about eight in the morning the islanders on St. Mary's Island
saw a German submarine overtake the former and sink her. The German
vessel then remained in the adjacent waters to watch for the approach
of another victim, while two patrol boats near by put out and opened
fire on her. The crowd saw the enemies exchange shots at a distance
of ten miles off shore. But neither side put in any effective shots,
and the combat ended when the submarine dived and retired.

The steamship _Headlands_ was then sighted by the commander of the
submarine and he immediately started to pursue her. The steamship
steered a zigzag course, but the submarine got in a position to
launch a torpedo, and at about half past