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APPEAL TO SEAMEN OF THE WORLD.

ROTORUA, April 18. Mr. Havelock Wilson, General Secretary of the National Sailors' and Firemen's Union of Great Britain and Ireland has sent the following cable to the secretary of the Union in London — "I appeal to the seamen of the world to give two days' pay each to the relatives of the sailors, firemen, coks, and stewards of the Titanic. I give ,£lO, and will ask the seamen of New Zealand and" Australia. This appeal will be sent to every maritime nation in the world as the English Union is federated to the National Union."

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