London, Nov. 14.
It is authoritatively stated that U-boats claimed only one victim last week, the 960-tons Carmarthe Coast.
To date 32 neutral ships, aggregate ing 88461 tons, have been sunk by German action.
The British. Contraband Control, it is understood, is now working much more smoothly, and ships are hardly ever delayed more than two days in examination, During the first fortnight of the war, it is stated, more British ships were seized carrying contraband than the ships of all other nations put together. This was due to the vessels loading before the war started, and to ships similarly loaded in the Far East arriving in British waters with contraband aboard.—
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