DUTCH SHIPBUILDING.
A Router despatch from Amsterdam sav6: — Xv a, long article tho Nieuwe Kotterdamscho Courant dwells 011 the dangers threatening JJutch shipbuilding. ' It publishes a letter from a Dutch shipbuilder at presont on business in Norway, who says that tho Norwegian firm for which tho steamer was bunt in Holland had to give a bank a guarantee ot 600,000 Uoriiifi that the vessels would first do some journeys for the Dutch Government to America afc low freight rates before it could be handed over to the owners. The paper says that by these requisitions of foreign-owned vessels the prospects of a Dutch shipbuilding industry becoming important and of the export industry thriving is greatly impeded, because foreign buyers would prefer to place their orders in America. The paper finally requests the Government to withdraw these restrictions for Dutch well as foreign-owned vessels being built in Holand.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 10
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147DUTCH SHIPBUILDING. Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 48, 24 February 1917, Page 10
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