The Independent . he greatest miscalculation in the wholeseries of miscalculations of that hatedempire. The French report 3 vessels lostwithin the week. The neutral Scandi-navian nations have suffered almost asmuch as the belligerents. Since the warbegan Denmark has lost 150 ships and210 seamen, but Denmark is not likelyto enter the war even tho Norway andSweden do, for Germany might imme-diately invade the country and so ob-tain a fresh supply of food and muni-tion material. Sweden, which has beenmore favorably disposed toward Ger-many than the others, has been exas-perated by the sinking of
The Independent . he greatest miscalculation in the wholeseries of miscalculations of that hatedempire. The French report 3 vessels lostwithin the week. The neutral Scandi-navian nations have suffered almost asmuch as the belligerents. Since the warbegan Denmark has lost 150 ships and210 seamen, but Denmark is not likelyto enter the war even tho Norway andSweden do, for Germany might imme-diately invade the country and so ob-tain a fresh supply of food and muni-tion material. Sweden, which has beenmore favorably disposed toward Ger-many than the others, has been exas-perated by the sinking of three Swed-ish grain steamers, the Viken, Ves-terland and Aspen, but the GermanMinister at Stockholm has apologizedfor the action of the submarine in thiscase. Four other steamers also carry-ing supplies from Sweden across theGulf of Bothnia to Russia were cap-tured by a U-boat and taken to aGerman port. The losses reported by the BritishAdmiralty do not include naval vessels,and it was not until twenty days later. I <f Lndertcood JUST OUT OF REACH It must have been a tantalizing bait for the Germans in the first line trenches to see month after month this view of the town they could nottake. This photograph of Soissons was taken thru the peephole of a trench recently captured by the Allies that the world learned that the Britishtransport Transylvania had been tor-pedoed somewhere in the Mediterra-nean on May 4. The Transylvaniawas an Anchor Line steamship of14,315 tons built in 1914. The first tor-pedo which struck her at ten in themorning did not damage the enginesand the ship made a dash for land, afew miles distant, but a second tor-pedo blew up the machinery and thevessel sank half an hour later. Thenurses were first put into the boatsand the soldiers waited their turn ondeck singing Tipperary and otherpopular airs. Most of the men were gotsafely ashore, but 413 were lost includ-ing the captain. It is now announced that the Frenchliner Sontay was torpedoed be
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