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Show BRITAIN URGED TO DRASTIC ACTION London, Nov. 21, 4:57 a. m. Robert P. Houston, member of parliament from Liverpool and head of the Houston Hous-ton Line of steamers, writes to the Times, urging that tho British mercantile mer-cantile marine take sea law into its own hands and arm ships against submarines sub-marines regardless of government restrictions. re-strictions. Mr. Houston offers the British master of any British merchant mer-chant ship 2000 for each German submarine he probably sinks up to a total of fifty, between now and May 31. Last April Mr. Houston issued a warning to the nation in regard to tho scarcity of shipping and urged that neutrals be compelled to use interned German ships. |