SALVAGE SQUABBLE

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 August 1946, Page 7

SALVAGE SQUABBLE

COMMENT BY AMERICAN PRESS “LONDON CHATTERING" . LONDON, August. 6. The New York Times in a leading article says: “Probably the summer heat or perhaps a sense of outraged national dignity has set the London press chattering about the squabble regarding the salvage of the freighter American Farmer. Whatever is the result of the squabble, the British people undoubtedly will; welcome the ship’s safe arrival in port ■ with grain aboard. Her cargo and I not' the salvage award .undoubtedly is the main point of interest to the bread hungry British.” I “Shades of Morgan, shades of Kidd., But it isn’t like 1812. There won’t bet war this time. There will merely be a lulu of a lawsuit. Meanwhile British minds have been taken off bread rationing and Americans temporarily have forgotten ■ the high cost of living which is a sort of salvage itself.’’ The New York Daily Mirror, in a leading article entitled l “Is That Cricket; Kidd?” says that, pitching up like a storm-tossed derelict among all the other news is a stirring, salty tale of the sea. Peace, politics, and Palestine have given way for the moment to the saga of the American Farmer. “Hot in pursuit of a possible 4,500,000-dollar salvage prize, the little freighter Elizabeth came splashing up and sent a crew aboard, taking the 8000-tbnner in tow,” says the paper. “The Elizabeth for 16 hours wrestled and worried -with the big ship like a porpoise tugging at a sperm whale. When the American Ranger came up she signalled ‘Hands off,’ but the Yanks swarmed.”