GERMANY'S SEA CRIMES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16848, 13 May 1918, Page 6

GERMANY'S SEA CRIMES

BRITISH SAILORS' BOYCOTT.

FIVE YEARS AFTER WAR.

LONDON, April 80. Mr. Havhock Wilson, president of the British Seamen and Firemen's Union, in a statement regarding the sacrifices of the mercantile marine, said that 15,000 British seamen had been murdered by German pirates during the war. Sea murders were growing, despite the decline in the number of ships attacked.

The German was more determined than ever but on the other hand sailors were in deadly earnest in their determination to apply a punitive boycott to Germany after the war. Masters, officers and seamen were in hearty unanimity in their determination after the war not to handle stuff in any way connected with Germany A year ago the limit for the boycott was ZUFtfi. ? OW i °Y ir i ? *° the crimes, it had extended to five and a-half years. " Mr. Wilson emphasised in the strongest manner that the boycott would be enforced to the uttermost. r, He had proofs that commercial folk in Germany were very unTJ n-Pf* r^ ard ' becauM th «y 'knew that British sailors possessed the TO ww and influence to make good their threap and because opinion was hardening rapidly Mr, Wdson added that the SeamenV tFmnm? *"?*"* AlreaTy it had 100,000 members. Candidates for>arliamenE at the-next elections who did not favour the leagues policy would have a Poor chance. Branches of the league were being organised in , every constituency They would run candidates against thole who did not satisfy their objects .. . /