Paris, Mar, 23.
There was nothing to report, said the Tatest French commiumique on the military situation on the western front.
The past 24 hours have been very quiet_on the Western Front, apart st and shel some were unusually ageresive. All were repulse ed without diflicults, it is claimed.—-
Reuter.
London, Mar. 22 Following the loss of the Bothal and the. Vikings, another two Danish steamers wre reported to have been torpedoed by "U-boats, making four Danish ships lost in two days. The Irtest victims ave the 1,654-lon motor= ship Algier, torpedoed and sunk with out warning by a U-boat in the Atlantic, and the 1,229-ton steamer Afinsk, sunk by a U-boat off the northeast coast of Scotland. The Minsie Sank in about three minutes after an explosion. Nine members of her crew were landed at a Scottish port yester~ day bya British warship, which picked them up after they had boon Tu a small boat for 36 hours, Five survivors were taken to hospital Eleven' members of the crew are mission The sinking of the Algier resulted in the loss of four members of the a yom passenger. Twenty ssu inetecn members of the crew and a woman—who had to jump Into the sea, were landed at a north British port yesterday, They were picked up. by" an Aberdeen trawler after spending ten hours in n lifeboat. They were wet through and feeling bitterly cold. The survivors stated that the ship went down within three nutes, Theoe lifeboats and two rats were launched, but all wore smashed, except one lifeboat. The up tal ordered all on board to jump the sea. All did so, except five, who went down with the ship.
Reuter
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