SHIPPING PROBLEMS
DURING THE WAR HOW BRITISH TRADE SUFFERED. (UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION.—COPtWOHI.) (ADI AND K.Z. CABLE ASSN. AMD REUTER.) (Received December 9, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Bth December. The Press Bureau states that the .Shipping Controller, on being interviewed, said that 60 per cent., of the American : troops had been carried in and escorted by British ships. To do this every passenger steamer was .removed from South Africa, with which country trade had practically been killed. All the faat passenger steamers were removed from India and Australia. Our consequent loss of essential imports exceeded one million tons. The Dominions bore the hardships of their isolation uncomplainingly.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 7
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105SHIPPING PROBLEMS Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 7
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