BRITISH SEA LOSSES
NEED NOT CAUSE PANIC.
FOOD SUPPLY SAFE IN. DEFINITELY.
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZBALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 31st January..
Sir Arthur Hill (secretary of the Liverpool Steamship Owners' Association), interviewed, said that the continued sinking of vessels need not give cause for panic regarding our food supplies. Our losses in tonnage were not progressive. Britain's food supply was safe for an indefinite period, provided wo made the best use of our remaining ships, and launched as many as possible. " Everything depends on the organisation of labour. The hundreds of thousands of men on home defence are wasting their time, and ought to be sent back to their civil occupations, subject to immediate call in the event of an invasion nf Britain. In 1916 we imported forty million $ons of cargo, of which only fifteen million tons represent food. Our tonnage losses are 6 per cent, yearly. Therefore, if our losses were quadrupled, syo would still bs able lofijring in VseutiaJs.''
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 28, 1 February 1917, Page 7
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