PIRATES' TOLL SINCE BEGINNING OF WAR.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED NON-COMBATANTS MURDERED.
TWO HUNDRED VESSELS OF ALL CLASSES SUNK.
London, May 11.
Dr MacXamara, Secretary to the Admiralty, announced in the House "of Commons that 201 merchantmen, yachts, trawlers, and drifters had been sunk, and 1556 passengers and members of crews drowned since the beginning of the war.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15916, 13 May 1915, Page 7
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