PROBLEM FOR U.S.A.
HUGE MERCANTILE MARINE
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPIRIGHT.)
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) WASHINGTON, 9th December.
Speaking at Baltimore, Mr, Champ Clark, Speaker of Congress, said that the United States at the end of the war would have a huge mercantile marine. What was .she going to do with it? Before the war Germany was the next best customer of the United States to Britain. If Germany were shut out of raw materials the 1 United States trade would suffer. However, they hoped to find new fields in South and Central America. Mr. Clark emphatically declared that President' Wilson should insist on the freedom of the' seas at the Paris Conference.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 141, 11 December 1918, Page 7
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