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Show GERMANS CLAIM FOUR PERCENT OF BRITISH MERCHANT8 8HIPS SUNK Berlin, Feb. 12 Among the statements state-ments given out for publication today to-day by tho Ovorscas News Agency, were tho following Items: Contrary to British roports that since tho beginning of tho war only 1 per cent of tho British merchant ships have been sunk, Hamburg shipowners ship-owners state that 113 ships, of 303,-000 303,-000 tons or about 4 per .cent, of the British commercial navy, have been dostroyed. "The Prussian mlnlstor of agriculture agricul-ture stated to a newspaper correspondent corres-pondent that Germany was assured of a supply of food und would bo able to contlnuo tho war longer than France or Russia." |