NORWAY'S LOSSES
AN ATTACK, IN THE SAFETY : zone: ;, •
ITRBDfBII'B TELEGRAM.) .'. AMSTERDAM, 21st April. The Norwegian relief ship Kongsli, bound from Rotterdam- with eight thousand tons of wheat, has been sunk in the So-called safety zone. The second mate is missing, but the remainder, including nineteen Americans, were rescued. It is not known whether the vessel was mined or torpedoed.
(Received April 23, 9.20 a.m.)
v AMSTERDAM, 22nd April. 1 Later reports show that/ the Kohgsli was towed into harbour;.
CHRISTIANIA, 20th April. The ' torpedoings have cost Norway since the war began a third of her mercantile fleet, and the lives of three hundred sailors. The losses are now averaging two ships and five liv6^ a 4ayThe arming of merchantmen is the only .preventive, but this means war with Germany.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 96, 23 April 1917, Page 7
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