BRITAIN'S SEA LOSSES.
GERMAN SLAUGHTER OF DEFENCELESS PEOPLE.
LONDON, August 14
In the House of Commons Mr Roberts stated that 3828 passengers and 5920 officers and seamen have lost their lives in British merchant vessels owing to enemy action since the beginning of the war.
[The president of the British Seamen's and Firemen's Union recently said: —Thousands of British and neutral seamen have been butchered' and done to death in the most coldblooded manner, and when Ramsay Mac Donald and his crowd say "Let us wipe that all off and have peace with no annexation or indemnity," I ask: Is there one man or woman who could justify it? When I read how this crowd sneered and jeered at our delegates who got up to speak at Leeds for the unfortunate sailors and firemen who had gone down my blood boiled like coffee.]
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17063, 16 August 1917, Page 2
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