The Independent . particularly work is being pushed to capacity gouy, estimates that they have many of these have been engagedin the German war zone during Febru-ary and how many have been lost arequestions upon which the public is inabsolute ignorance. We are not much better informed asto the extent of the injury done toBritish shipping. Admiral Lord Beres-ford stated to Parliament that wehave lost since the beginning of thewar four million tons of million tons which have beenlost have been more or less adequatelyfilled. But the Glasgow Herald statesthat shipbuilding in
The Independent . particularly work is being pushed to capacity gouy, estimates that they have many of these have been engagedin the German war zone during Febru-ary and how many have been lost arequestions upon which the public is inabsolute ignorance. We are not much better informed asto the extent of the injury done toBritish shipping. Admiral Lord Beres-ford stated to Parliament that wehave lost since the beginning of thewar four million tons of million tons which have beenlost have been more or less adequatelyfilled. But the Glasgow Herald statesthat shipbuilding in the United King-dom amounted to 650,000 tons in 1915and 582,000 tons in 1916. The total ton-nage of English shipping is twelve orfifteen million. The Sinkingof the Law An American four-mast-ed schooner, the LymanW. Law, was over-hauled by a submarine in the Mediter-ranean on February 12 and set fire bya bomb. The crew of nine went off intwo boats and landed safely at Cagliari,Sardinia. The schooner was chartered. s
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