GERMAN PIRATES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 193, 4 May 1918, Page 7

GERMAN PIRATES

15,000 BRITISH SEAMEN MURDERED SAILORS' BOYCOTT PLEDGE London, May 2. Mr. Havelock Wilson (secretary of tho Seamen and Firemen's Union), in an interview, said that rieai'ly 15,000 British seamen had been murdered by the Garman pirates in the war period, and yet there were more men than ever at sea. The sailors were in deadly earnest with regard to applying a punitivo boycott to, Germany, for at least two years after tho ivar. . Ten thousand men had joined the league, and pledged, themselves to tho boycott.—Aus.-N.Z' Gable .Assn. SUBMARINES"I&SS EFFECTSVE REDUCTION IN' WAR-RISK - HATES. Washington, May 9.. Mr. W. Delaney, chairman of tho WarEislc Insurance Bureau, says that in spite Oi'lseveral reductions in, the, rates tlie profits of the Bureau to 17,000,000 dollars -(,£3,400,000).' The sub- ■ marines are becoming less effective owing to the excellent convoys, and the rate will shortly be farther reduced to less than 3 per cent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ITALIAN SHIPPING-LOSSES 1 ; (Rec. May 3, 5.5 p.m.)' London, May 2. •The Italian sbmping. .'eturns for tho veek show:—Arrivals, 334; depai'nues, 363; sunk, one small-sailing vessel.—Aus.N.Z., Cable As'sn.-Rjuter.