THE MERCANTILE MARINE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 133, 5 June 1914, Page 5

THE MERCANTILE MARINE.

GERMANY'S BID FOR SUFftEMACY. BACKED BY GOVERNMENT. RATE. WAR POSSIBILITIES. LONDON, June 4. One English shipowner declares that the move made by Germany with regard to the New Zealand trade "is only an incident in a world-wide state of affairs. He complains that whereas the German nation backs (German shipping. British shipping is not backed similarly. The British public has too long been hypnotised by the Germany Navy. Really, it is the German commercial voracity that has created her navy.

Mr. Potter, manager of the Shaw. Savill, and Albion Company, states that the British lines trading to New Zealand are acting in complete concert. He hoped that the delicate negotiations would soon make a conference with the Germans possible, thereby averting a rate war. THE BOATS FOR NEW ZEALAND BLUFF FIRST PORT OF CALL. I Received 9.20 aJn.'i SYDNEY, this day. Tbe new (ierman line runs from Bremen, Antwerp, and Hamburg via the Cape making the Bluff the first port of call. The steamers will work north to Auckland, calling at all the principal ports. The steamers will be 10,000-tonners. fitted with cold storage and wireless, and will have a speed of 12 to 13 knots. FRENCTH ACTIVITY. MM. LINE TO RESUME RUNNING l Received 5.50 a.m.l SYDNEY, this day. Tbe Messageries Maritime* has decided -to open a new route to Australia with monthly sailings from Marseilles via I port Said. Colombo. Batavia, Torres ! Straits. Noumea, and Brisbane to Sydney. The ships will carry passengers and cargo, and the service will he inauguI rated early in 1915.