ENORMOUS SHIPPING ACTIVITY.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 16 June 1919, Page 5

ENORMOUS SHIPPING ACTIVITY.

CLAIMS FOE MMAGES AGAINST

SUBMARINING

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

NEW YORK, June 8. The New York Times' Washington correspondent reports that Mr Hurley, in a statement, said that the United States Shipping Board completed, or had under construction, a total of 2434 vessels, aggregating 13,885,106 deadweight tons, at an average cost of 180 dollars per ton. The Times' Washington correspondent states that the State Department has announced that the claims of American citizens against Germany arising from submarine warfare and the seizure of American property in Germany amount to a billion dollars.