FIRST WEEK WITH NO LOSS
An Associated Press dispatch of July 22 from London remarked:
So far as British vessels were concerned, the German submarines drew a blank during the week ended yesterday. Not a single British merchant ship or fishing craft was sunk.
It was the first week since the war began that some loss to British shipping had not been occasioned by German cruisers, mines, or submarines.
During the week 1,326 vessels of more than 300 tons each arrived at or departed from ports of the United Kingdom.
The German war-zone decree went into effect on February 18. Since then the weekly losses of ships and lives from torpedoes have been as follows:
| Week Ending | Vessels. | Lives. |
| February 25 | 11 | 9 |
| March 4 | 1 | 0 |
| March 11 | 7 | 38 |
| March 18 | 6 | 13 |
| March 25 | 7 | 2 |
| April 1 | 13 | 165 |
| April 8 | 8 | 13 |
| April 15 | 4 | 0 |
| April 22 | 3 | 10 |
| April 29 | 3 | 0 |
| May 6 | 24 | 5 |
| May 13 | 2 | 1,260 |
| May 20 | 7 | 13 |
| May 27 | 7 | 7 |
| June 3 | 19 | 32 |
| June 10 | 36 | 21 |
| June 17 | 19 | 19 |
| June 24 | 3 | 1 |
| July 1 | 9 | 29 |
| July 8 | 15 | 2 |
| July 15 | 12 | 13 |
| July 22 | 2 | 0 |
| —— | —— | |
| Total | 218 | 1,652 |
Of the two vessels torpedoed in the week of July 22, the Russian steamer Balwa was attacked on July 16. On the following day another Russian steamer, the General Radetzky, was torpedoed. Both hailed from Riga, and the crews of both were saved.
WARFARE MODIFIED?
A record reported to have been compiled chiefly from British Admiralty sources since the sinking of the Lusitania was published by The New York American on July 13, showing that out of 122 ships sunk by German submarines in the war zone, every passenger or sailor was saved on all but 14. Following is The American's summary: