SUBSIDISED SHIPS
LORD BLEDISLOE'S VIEWS
APPEAL TO BRITAIN
(From ''Thi'. Post's" Representative.) LONDON, September 21.
" LOfd Btedisloe, in a letter to "The Times," expresses the opinion that not a moment too soon has; Mr. Alexander Shaw, chairman of the P. and 6. Steam Navigation Company, spoken of the peril'.of British shipping annihilation in the Pacific. "I profoundly trust," he says, "that if the British Government pays heed at long last to his unanswerable arguments for protection against the squeezing out of . British shipping, within "a sphere which territorially is predominantly British, by American Government subsidisation on a wholly unprecedented scale, it may not prove to be too.late. ;"I confess," continues Lord Bledisloe, "that I. ■ have, during my term of office as Governor-General of New Zealand, watched with growing alarm the apparently futile although courageous attempt which the owners of our trans-oceanic liners have made •to.'.' prevent".---.British V' shipping from being driven off... the waters of the Pacific Ocean and the Tasman Sea— "alarm-based otf the' conviction' that, ! unless-siiclu shipping is' available .rt or 'adaptation .to,war requirements in the event-of the,invasion of New Zealand or. Australian/ territory by a foreign Power seeking, territorial expansion, a Very substantial addition to the naval sq'uadroris' andI'establishments :of our two great Airtipidean Dominions will be essentialr*o their security and integrity:. •;; '-;/^ "-■ ..-'_.. ■' ' '• "THese Dominions, while; fully sympathising with the case so clearly stated by;Mr."Alexander Shaw, have held, their hatids in the past so as to save Great, Britain from diplomatic embarrassments, but they urgently need her outspoken co-operation and assistance now. "Without the definite practical sympathy of the Mother Country.it would be difficult/for them; now that a new 'vested'interest' has established itself (albeit under wholly artificial conditions), to take any effect tive action .calculated to save.theposi■tion. ' ■_■■;■ . . ~.'.. -"This.is surely^a.matter"which calls: for Empire solidarity, especially in face of present-day.; world conditions, such as would appear to lend encouragement to unwarranted territorial aggression." .
SUBSIDISED SHIPS
Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 91, 14 October 1935, Page 11
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