THE BLOCKADE FOR APRIL
A presentation was made at Liverpool recently to the eaptniij, ami crew of the steamer Aquiln, in recognition of their bravery when t]ie vessel was attacked and sunk by a Gorman submarine on 27th March., Sir A. Norman Hill. - -secretary ot. the Liverpool' Steamship Owners Association, sav’d- he. gather: •:! from the ■ newspapers that Berlin was still under the delusion tin t' there was a blockade of this country. It was important that the real, position should he emphasised. til April there were cargoes worth £114,000,000 carried in and out of the ports of the United Kingdom-, ■' The value of the destroyed cargoelrwas-less than .£50,000. or about one shilling i n the ■filOO. The •'.‘blockade” had been a miserable failure.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 7
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123THE BLOCKADE FOR APRIL Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3984, 17 July 1915, Page 7
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