Forty-four Americans were killed when the Old Dominion liner Tyler was sunk off the French coast on May 2.
The British liner Oronsa was sunk on April 28. All on board except three members of the crew were saved. The British sloop Cowslip was torpedoed on April 25. Five officers and one man were missing.
The British Admiralty announced on April 24 the cessation of the weekly return of shipping losses and the substitution of a monthly report.
In a statement made in the Chamber of Deputies on May 11, Georges Leygues, the French Minister of Marine, declared that the total of allied tonnage sunk by German submarines in five months was 1,648,622, less than half the amount alleged by Germany to have been destroyed. He announced that the number of submarines sunk by the Allies was greater than Germany's output.
BARON STEPHAN BURIAN
Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister in succession to Czernin