Russian: _Egret_, 3,185 tons. Norwegian: _Britannic_, 2,289 tons; _Older_, 2,256 tons; _Fama_, 2,147 tons; _Esperanca_, 4,428 tons; _Bergenhus_, 3,606 tons; _Jotunfjell_, 2,492 tons; _Myrdal_, 2,631 tons. Dutch: _Salland_, 3,657 tons; _Zeta_, 3,053 tons. Greek: _Evangelos_, 3,773 tons; _Demetrios Goulandris_, 3,744 tons; _Aristotelis C. Ioannow_, 2,868 tons; _Demetrios Inglessis_, 2,088 tons; Tsiropinas, 3,015 tons. Spanish: _Valle_, 2,365 tons; _Manuel_, 2,419 tons; _Parahyba_, 2,537 tons. Toward the end of January, 1917, the severity of submarine warfare was noticeably increased. Day by day the number of vessels sunk grew larger, and some of them were of especially large tonnage. On January 28, 1917, a French transport, carrying 950 soldiers to Saloniki, the _Amiral Magon_, was sunk in the Mediterranean with a loss of about 150 men. Then came on January 29, 1917, the official announcement that the British Government had decided to lay new mine fields in the North Sea in order to cope more successfully with the ever-growing submarine menace. According to this announcement the British Government warned all neutrals that from this date the following area in the North Sea was to be considered dangerous to shipping: The area comprising all the waters, except the Netherlands and Danish territorial waters, lying southwestward and eastward of a line commencing four miles from the coast of Jutland in latitude 56 degrees N., longitude 8 degrees E. As a result of this new policy it was announced by Lloyd's that eleven vessels of about 15,000 tons were sunk on the first day of the blockade. During the first week of the blockade, February 1 to 8, 1917, according to British figures, which, however, were claimed by German officials to be much lower than the actual figures, there were sunk 58 vessels of 112,043 tons, of which 1 was American, 20 belonged to other neutrals, 32 to Great Britain, and 5 to the other belligerents. PART VI--THE UNITED STATES AND THE BELLIGERENTS CHAPTER L THE OLD MENACE A welcome period of quiet in the submarine controversy with Germany followed the settlement of the _Sussex_ case recorded in the previous volume. But neither the Administration nor the country was deluded into resting in any false security. The dragon was not throttled; it merely slumbered by the application of a diplomatic opiate. While the war lasted the menace of its awaking and jeopardizing German peace with the United States was always present.