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Show FEARFUL LOSS TO SHIPPING. Lord Beresford Admits 225 Vessels Have Been Sunk in a Month. London. Losses of merchant vessels ves-sels amounting to more than 420,000 tons thus far in March have resulted from war measures of the central powers, pow-ers, Lord Charles Beresford announced announc-ed in the house of lords on March 27. In a debate on the British blockade block-ade Lord Beresford said that wtih longer days and calmer weather the Josses, would increase and that the public ought to have the facts brought home to it. The number of vessels destroyed thus far this month was given by him as 255. |