BRITISH SHIPPING TO BE NATIONALISED.
BONAR LAW'S CONFIDENCE IN MARITIME SITUATION. LONDON, February 8. Speaking in the House of Commons to-day, Mr. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said the Government was requisitioning more and more merchantmen. Some arrangement for nationalisation, similar to the nationalisation of the railways, had been decided on, and details would be announced shortly. The Minister in Charge of Shipping Control had already done valuable work in providing new ships. Whatever the submarine ravages, Britain was doing something to replace them by the many ships which were being constructed with the utmost rapidity. Submarines were one of the greatest dangers. Although he was only speculating, he could not help feeling that Germany was already doing her maximum, and had absolutely no chance of starving Britain or defeating her that way. The best brains of the Navy were concentrated on the submarine problem, and everything possible was being done.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 35, 9 February 1917, Page 5
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