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Show MORE LIFEBOATS ORDERED. All American Ships Must Provide Accommodations Ac-commodations for All on Board. Washington. To further reduce submarine sub-marine risk drastic changes were ordered or-dered on May 12, in the present lifeboat life-boat regulations. The modifications' were made by the department of commerce com-merce on reports showing that only two Americans aboard torpedoed ships have lost their lives by gunfire or torpedo tor-pedo explosions, nnd that all others were drowned or died of exposure. Hereafter nil American steam vessels ves-sels entering the war zone-must carry enough lifeboats to accommodate every person aboard and in addition must have enough life rafts for 25 per cent. |