London, Mar. 22.
Following the loss of the Bothal and the Viking, another two Danish steamers are reported to have been torpedoed by U-boats, making four Danish ships lost in two days. The Ictest victims are the 1,654-ton motorship Algier, torpedoed and sunk without warning by a U-boat in the Atlantic, and the 1,229-ton steamer Minsk, sunk by a U-boat off the northeast coast of Scotland. The Minsk sank in about three minutes after an. explosion. Nine members of her crew were landed at a Scottish port yesterday by a British warship, which picked them up after they had been in a small boat for 36 hours. Five survivors. were taken to hospital Eleven members of the crew are missing.
The sinking of the Algier resulted in the loss of four members of the crew and a woman passenger. Twenty survivors—nineteen 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 a lifeboat. They were wet through and feeling bitterly cold. The survivors stated that the ship went down within three minutes. Three lifeboats and two raíts were launched, but all were smashed, except one lifeboat. The captain ordered all on board to jump into the sea. AW did so, except five, who went down with the ship.—Reuter.
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