boats. They had
hardly gotten twenty feet from their ship when she was rent by
a violent explosion and went down.

The transatlantic liner _Megantic_ had better luck, for she managed
to escape a pursuing submarine on May 29, 1915, as she was nearing
Queenstown, Ireland, homeward bound. A notable change in the methods
adopted by the commanders of submarines as a result of orders issued
by the German admiralty in answer to the protests throughout the
press of the neutral nations after the sinking of the _Lusitania_
was the giving of warning to intended victims. By the end of May,
1915, in almost every instance where a German submarine stopped
and sank a merchantman the crew was given time to get off their
ship and the submarine did not hesitate to show itself. In fact,
warning to stop was generally given when the submarine's deck was
above water and the gun mounted there had the victim "covered."
This was done in the case of the British steamship _Tullochmoor_,
which was torpedoed off Ushant near the most westerly islands of
Brittany, France.

On the 1st of June, 1915, there came the news of the sinking of
the British ship _Dixiana_, near Ushant, by a German submarine
which approached by aid of a clever disguise. The crew managed to
get off the ship in time; when they landed on shore they reported
that the submarine had been seen and on account of sails which she
carried was thought to be an innocent fishing boat. The disguise
was penetrated too late for the _Dixiana_ to make its escape.

The clear and calm weather which came with June, 1915, made greater
activity on the part of German submarines possible. On the 4th
of June, 1915, it was reported by the British admiralty that six
more ships had been made victims, three of them being those of
neutral countries. In the next twenty-four hours the number was
increased by eleven, and eight more were added by the 9th of June,
1915.

On that date Mr. Balfour, Secretary of the British admiralty, announced
that a German submarine had been sunk, though he did not state what
had been the scene of the action. At the same time he announced
that Great Britain would henceforth treat the captured crew of
submarines in the same manner as were treated other war prisoners,
and that the policy of separating these men from the others and
of giving them harsher treatment would be abandoned.

On the 20th of June, 1915, the day's reports of losses due to the
operations of German submari