As a result, during the first nine months of the war a large number of neutral ships were sunk with considerable loss of life.
32.
Over the weekend of 18 21 November six other neutral ships were sunk off the English coast, including a 12, 000 ton Japanese liner.
33.
It was suggested that she-as a civilian, neutral ship-should be the place where a truce could be negotiated, but the North Koreans rejected the idea.
34.
Blockade runners would typically export cotton to Nassau where it would be stored, then transferred to a neutral ship and sent to England, usually Liverpool.
35.
The biggest supporter of the merchant men was Allied and neutral ships worldwide, including those manned by the Merchant Marine, and the following year was even worse.
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Due to these failures, on 4 February 1915, the Germans initiated unrestricted submarine warfare, in which, in addition to enemy ships, all neutral ships could be attacked.
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Merchant ships and neutral ships and hospital ships were sunk on the seas and all on board left to their fate, or killed as they swam . ..
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"The combination of state-of-the-art navigational and initialization information technology allows the missile's active radar seeker to better discriminate the desired targets from islands, other obstructions or neutral ships,"
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Germany considered the allied blockade illegal, and to counter it embarked upon a system of unrestricted submarine warfare whereby enemy and neutral ships could be attacked without warning.
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Even in that epic struggle, all of the combatant powers saw to it that enemy envoys within their ranks remained unharmed before they were safely exchanged on neutral ships.
