§ 18. Mr. EVELYN CECILasked the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, seeing that the German Government is reported as stating in its recent note to the United States Government that the German naval forces receive orders that merchant vessels, both within and without the area declared as a naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives unless the ship attempts to escape or offer resistance, His Majesty's Government has any objection to publishing a list of British and neutral ships torpedoed without warning and without their attempting to escape or offer resistance between 7th May, 1915, when the "Lusitania" was sunk, and the present time; and whether such particulars have been communicated to the British Embassy at Washington?
§ Dr. MACNAMARAThe number of unarmed British merchant vessels which have been torpedoed without warning between the 7th May, 1915, and the 10th May, 1916, is thirty-seven. The number of neutral merchant vessels torpedoed without warning between the same dates is, according to the evidence available, twenty-two. I understand that these particulars are known to the United States Government. I will, with my hon. Friend's permission, issue lists, giving the names of the vessels, with the OFFICIAL REPORT.—[See Written Answers.]