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Show -uu BRITAIN IS NOW London, April 12. Two more ships havo been reported as sunk during the past twenty-four hours. According Accord-ing to the morning newspapers, this makes forty-two British, ten of Groat Britain's allies' and thirty neutral vessels ves-sels lost since March 1, when the new German submarine campaign began. Robert Paverson Houston, Unionist member of parliament from Liverpool, Liver-pool, In an appeal to the nation published pub-lished today declares that the scarcity scar-city of shipping is becoming so serious seri-ous a problem that the present agitation agi-tation regarding the price of food is likely to yield place to the agitation as to whether sufficient food will be available. He estimates that slnco the beginning of the war ocean-going British vessels of 3,000,000 tons have been lost, from all causes., "Between a third and a half of Great Britain's food supplies already is coining in neutral ships," says Mr. Houston. "If Germany, by the persistent per-sistent sinking of every vessel, can frighten neutrals from bringing us cargoes, what then? Already we seo neutrald fighting shy of bringing cargoes car-goes here This is natural, too, inasmuch inas-much as they can find full employment employ-ment for their ships at profitable freights elsewhere." Mr. Houston urges compelling neutrals neu-trals who have not yet made use of Interned German ships to do so. This would be possible by threatening a withdrawal of the allies' tonnage unless un-less tbey comply. Mr. Houston also urged the reassertion by the entente allies of the "ancient right to capture cap-ture an enemy-owned cargo, no matter mat-ter under what flag it Is being carried," car-ried," and suggests an effort to arrange ar-range by diplomacy for the confiscation confisca-tion in neutral waters of a German ship for every entente, allied or neutral neu-tral ship improperly sunk by the Germans. Ger-mans. nn |