USE OF NEUTRAL FLAGS.
THE TRIC7K DEFENDED. (By Electric Telegraph — Copyright). LONDON, February 11. Refering to the use of Neutral flags. Shipowners declared that if one had cap tains who failed to save lives and prop- j erty on the high seas when there was i the simple device of hoisting the flag j on another nation and could have done j the trick they would have, no further 1 use for his services. Tho superintendent of a fleet of merchant ships declared that he would run up a Siamese elephant if it meant escaping trouble. The only flag he would not use was the German because, knowing that there was not one afloat on the high seas any German navalman would' sink such immediately if. he had any i commonsense.
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Grey River Argus, 13 February 1915, Page 7
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