Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association, has taken the opportunity to bear testimony to the heroism of the officers and men of the British Merchant Service. Perhaps we should have heard nothing of it had not Sir Arthur quoted figures to show that the enemy's submarine warfare has not affected our carrying trade in so far as the number using British ports is con-This is often the case with the merchant sailor: he does his work conscientiously and bravely, seldom coming into the limelight. This war, however, has shown of what motile he is: so great was the response to the general call to arms that the Government deemed it necessary to intimate thit a man might serve his country just as well in a merchant vessel as in a man-of-war or on the battlefield. Many men from the merchant service have won honours, in the air, on land and sea, and beneath the waves. Sir Arthur Hill's tribute reminds us of how much Britons owe to their sailors, not indeed that we need much jogging of the memory these days.
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