END OF THE DRESDEN.
EFFECT OY VF,W ZEALAND SHIPPING.
(Special to Herald.)
WELLINGTON, this day. The escape of the Dresden from th<: British squadron commanded by Admiral Sturdee left one remaining risk to pur shipping m. tho i'acific. Now that is removed, the commerce of New Zealand with the Old Country can g( on with much grdater freedom. "It if a splendid thing from the Imperial point of view, and particularly from the point df view of New Zealand," re marked the Prime Minister to your cor respondent. . . . *
"For some time there has been a feol ing of uneasiness on the part of merchants and shipping people because this raider, the Dresden, -was at large m the Pacific, and what has happened this week will be a relief to all cpneerned. So far as we know the Dresden was the only obstacle to our commerce right through to the waters of the Atlantic."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13636, 17 March 1915, Page 6
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