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Show U-BOATS KILL 775 ! AMERICAN CITIZENS WASHINGTON. Nov. K. roos of j 164 American paasenger and merchant! vessels of H.44f tons and T?a lives through acts of the enemy during the period from the beginning of the world wsr ta the eeesation of hostilities November No-vember II Is shown by figures made publle bv lha department of Commerce's Com-merce's bureau of navigation The report re-port does not Include several vessels the loss of which has not been established estab-lished as due to acta of the enemy. Nineteen vessels and sixty-seven lives were loot through use of torpedoes, tor-pedoes, mines and gunfire prior lo the entrance of the L'nitetf Plates Into the war. |