EX-ENEMY STEAMERS
LORD INOHCAFE'S REPORT ON
THE SALES.
(Cinrn pubs* /ssccfATioN.—comieiT/)
LONDON, 22nd February.
Lord Inchcape, reporting on the sale of ex-enemy steamers, which he" undertook to carry out voluntarily on behalf of the Repatriation Commission, says he dealt with 94 passenger steamers, sailers, and trawlers, and 32^ cargo steamers, aggregating 2,530,016 tons, which .realised a total of twenty millions sterling./ The only vessel he failed to sell was the Prinz August Wilhelm, lying irrecoverable at the bottom of the sea," off Colombia. ' ''I understand she will be left to the Germans," he said. Ths to,tal expenses in connection with the sales amounted to only 31- pence per cent, ore the realisations. ■
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1922, Page 7
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112EX-ENEMY STEAMERS Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1922, Page 7
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