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Show BRITISH VESSEL -SUNH1Y-SUB By Associated Press Sinking of the 4646-ton British freighter Hazelside off the Irish coast by a submarine Sunday raised to 49 the total of merchant ships lost In sea combat. Since war was declared September Septem-ber 3, thirty British, one French, nine German and nine neutral vessels ves-sels have been destroyed. Twelve of the Hazelside 34 crew member s were reported missing. Survivors said the freighter was sunk without warning. Torpedoing of three neutral craft in two days the other six nonbelligerent merchant vessels lost were blown up by mines-indicated mines-indicated Germany had begun more drastic enforcement of its attempted submarine blockade of the British isles. Like the Finnish freighters Marttl-Ragnar and the Walma, the 1510-ton Swedish cargo carrier car-rier Gertrud Bratt, torpedoed off Norway Sunday, was bound for England with wood pulp, listed by the Germans as contraband. The wood pulp contains cellulose. Important Im-portant In the manufacture of explosives. ex-plosives. Although Finland protested the sinking of Its two freighters a a violation of neutrality, a German official said that if either vessel merely had been ordered to return re-turn to it home port It would have sought some other way to England.. "So there Is nothing left for us to do In such a case except to sink it," he said. Each neutral ship was warned before it was sunk. All crew members apparently reached safety. |