A SHIPPING PROBLEM
A SHIPOWNER'S VIEWS. GERMAN VESSELS SHOULD «E a REQUISITIONED. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SEKTICK3..I ■, ; . (Received April 19. 8 a.m.) LONDON, 18th April. -Mr. H. P. Houston, JI.P (headj o£ I tho Houston Line of steamers), writing to the Daily Mail, states: —The shortage of -British tonnage was so great during March that of forty,-nino steamers loading coal ;it Cardiff for Italy only three were British. The GeVmans are undoubtedly desperately attempting a blockade of Britain, and >hat they arc very active is shown by the number of our ports closed. I understand that they have standardised parts of. submarines, and are putting them out rapidly. It behoves the Admiralty to turn out a sufficient number of vessels to deal with these pests. The cost of food is bound to advance, and in view of the losses of British and neutral tonnage and the demands of the Allies for British shipping it is wasteful to use British vessels?" Mr. Houston advocates the requisitioning of ships in neutral countries like Spain, who has seventy German vessels lying in her waters. The proper course wmikl bo for the Government to inform Spain that it is unable to grant the use of our ships while German vessels are idle in her ports.
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 93, 19 April 1916, Page 7
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211A SHIPPING PROBLEM Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 93, 19 April 1916, Page 7
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