A HUGE SHIPBUILDING SCHEME.
TO OVERCOME SUBMARINE
MENACE
(Received May 10, 12.30 p.m.)
NEW YORK, May 9,
The "Times" Washington correspondent states that Congress will be asked to appropriate one billion dollars for the construction of a merchant fleet to overcome submarines. •»
The Shipping Board's whole programme contemplates a tonnage of 6,000,000. Every steel mill is to be utilised, and Government and.private contracts are to be cancelled.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4054, 10 May 1917, Page 5
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