FORTY-NINE SEA FIGHTS
WITH THE GERMAN SUBMARINE PIRATES '. ' ~ -<■ .9 ' , i London, April 8. Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade, in an interview with a representative of thee' 'Petit Parisian," said it could not .be denied that the losses of merchantmen are serious, but it was no exaggeration to say that they were considerably below what the Germans anticipated. It ought not to be forgotten that while we talked . mlich about the victims of the Teuton piracy, wei-said nothing about the pirates' .losses. 'The Admiralty had authorised him to.say .that between February 21 and April. 1-there had been forty-nine fights between British vessels and tlio German pirates.—Au 6,N.Z. Cable Assn. " .
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3049, 10 April 1917, Page 5
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109FORTY-NINE SEA FIGHTS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3049, 10 April 1917, Page 5
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