RUSH FOR SHIPS
BRITAIN VERY BUSY. EFFECT OF NAVAL PROGRAMME ALL SHIPYARDS WILL SOON BE OCCUPIED. (U.P.A. by A’iec Tel. Copyright!. (Received July 16, 1.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 15. Mr Bywater, in the “Daily Telegraph,” commenting on Lloyd’s shipbuilding returns, which show that 848,732 tons of new merchant shipping were under construction as at June 30, points out it is not only the highest since 1930 but exceeds the aggregate tonnage now building in the four leading countries abroad. British shipyard capable of naval construction will, he says, bo fully occupied at the end of the year. In addition, on. the sister ship to the Queen Mary, the Cunard Co. is spending £10,000,000 and is constructing eight liners of from 14,000 to 30,000 tons. The situation in Britain he contrasts with that of France, where the strike of 10,000 workers at St. Nazaire is still holding un the French naval programme.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXXV, Issue 12914, 16 July 1936, Page 5
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