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Show NORWAY'S LOSSES. Since" the w ar began -Norway, a neutral neu-tral country, has lost 842 vessels by reason of Germany's submarine warfare; war-fare; 1747 lives have been sacrificed and the total tonnage destroyed amounts to 1,154,143. This is a tremendous tremen-dous loss for the Norwegians)- for their prosperity depends upon their shipping to a very great extent. The June sinkings sink-ings of Norwegian ships show an increase, in-crease, and the hardships imposed are very great. The Germans have been in the habit of sinking merchantmen indiscriminately indis-criminately from the beginning, but of late Norway appears to have become an object of especial hatred upon the part of th,e Hun government, and an effort ef-fort is now being made to prevent food sent from the United States from reach-, ing the people of the northern neutral nation. There does not appear to be any chance -of preventing such losses in the future unless the allied fleets are successful in destroying tho German Ger-man I'-boats. which is slow work, although al-though it is said they are now being sent down faster than the Germans can build them. Some day these sneaking sea sharks will cease their murderous work, and the ships of all nations will be free to engage in the ocean-carrying trade without running any risks other than accidents. When that time comes the central powers will not have a friend in any corner of the earth, and apologies for malicious destruction of neutral vessels will not be accepted, least of all by Norway, which is just now in desperate straits owing to the loss of her merchantmen. |