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Show BRITISH SAILORS ARE TO BOYCOTT GERMANY Teutons and Their Goods Will Be Under Un-der Ban When -the War Is. Over. By International News Service. LONDON, Feb. 9. Could there be any surprise, asked Lord Beresford. that British Brit-ish merchant sailors had decided to boycott boy-cott Germans and their goods after the war? He proceeded to mention that: ! Ten thousand sailors had been murdered mur-dered by the L'-boats. anil 4000 were prisoners, pris-oners, undergoing cruel privations. Fifty-seven vessels had been sunk without with-out trace. From Hull alone 550 seamen had been assassinated. Lord Bcresford also mentioned that the mercantile marine had transported 15. -000,000 men to the seats of war; 2.0uO,mOO horses and mules: 5u0.000 vehicles: "5.-000. "5.-000. 000 tons, of explosives: 51,000,Oi.0 tons of oil and fuel. The dockers, declared Lord Beresford. : were going to back the seamen in the boycott of Germany after the war. |