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Show CRUISERS COMBING SEAS FOR GERMANS ALLIES REDOUBLE THEIR EFFORTS EF-FORTS TO ROUND UP VESSELS PREYING UPON COMMERCE. Seventy British, French, Russian, Japanese Jap-anese and Australian Cruisers Searching for German Cruisers in Atlantic and Pacific London. The admiralty on Friday Issued a statement outlining the steps that are being taken to round up the eight or nine German cruisers at large in the Atlantic, Pacific and Im dian oceans. These cruisers include the Emden, which has sunk or cap tured twenty British vessels to date in the Indian ocean, and the Karlsruhe, Karls-ruhe, which has taken thirteen British Brit-ish ships in the Atlantic. The statement state-ment says: "Searching for these vessels and working in concert under various commanders in chief are upwards of seventy British, Australian, Japanese, French and Russian cruisers, not including in-cluding auxiliary cruisers. Among these are a number of the fastest British cruisers. "The vast expanse of seas and oceans and the many thousands oi islands offer almost infinite choice ol movement to the enemy's ships. It. spite of every effort to cut off theii coal supply it has hitherto been maintained main-tained by cne means or another. Ir. the face of increasing difficulty the discovery and destruction of these few enemy cruisers therefore is largely large-ly a matter of time, patience and good luck. The public should have confidence that the commanders in chief and the experienced captains serving under them are doing all that is possible and taking the best steps to bring the enemy to action. ' Our commanders so far have been occupied in very serious and important import-ant convoy duty, but this work has somewhat lessened and the number of searching cruisers is being continually contin-ually augmented. "The percentage of loss is much less than was reckoned on before the war. Between 8,000 and 9,000 foreign for-eign voyages have been undertaken to and from United Kingdom ports, less than five per thousand of which have been interfered with, and ol these losses a large number have been caused by merchant vessels taking everything for granted and proceeding proceed-ing without precautions, as if there were no war." |