GERMAN SHIPPING LOSSES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 10867, 4 June 1918, Page 5

GERMAN SHIPPING LOSSES.

NEARLY 3,000.000 TONS.

EFFORTS AT REPLACEMENT. A. and N.Z. LONDON. June 2.

Geiman newrpapers publish statistics shown, that the direct and indirect German 'hipping losses (hiring the war have been approximately tiOO vessels, totalling 2,900,C'0 tons, which is con. c ably moro than half tho total of Germany's pre-war tonnage. It is fluted that German shipbuilding yarcu are at their busiest, constructing many merchantmen; that large shipping companies ha* e 950,000 tons under construction, including seven vessels each over 30,000 tons, av 1 four of the largest freight carriers in the world. British critics recall that when the Reichstag recently di.-cussej a Shipping Bill providing State subsidies for shipping companies Social ; st deputies declared that all mercantile construction ceased early in the war, and had not been resumed, and ih.it tho .-.hippin * yards were exclusively engaged in naval construction. It '■•as also stated that two thirds of the German shipwrights had been called up for military service.

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fitOU \ I'KIXC!-: IiKBUKED. l'r.::ei: Srrv;. -\ LONDON. Jane 2. (;- r m,i!: deserters state tint General L':d. nd :if warned the Crown Prince not t. nt-■!'!••!.■ with the Herman offensive, a , ,1 i,,;, j,;,,, t" amuse himself wh. revet !„. 1:1;,<1. lli-denl-u'-g is suffering a similar < > hp--'.

I TORPEDOED TRANSPORT. TUT.NTY-KOl LIVES LOST. ■ A. ,-ir.il X Z. WASHINGTON. June 2. The Wivy Pepartrnent advises that four officers and 20 men are missing from the transport President Lincoln, which was torpedoed while homeward-bound from France.