SHIPBUILDING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 160, 4 July 1918, Page 5

SHIPBUILDING

BRITISH OUTPUT INCREASING

ENCOURAGING COMMENTS BY CONTROLLER.

{Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

(Rec. Julv 3, 10.10 a.m.)' LONDON, July 3. Tlie Admiralty announces that 134.159 tons of merchantmen "were completed in th» United Kingdom in June, compared with 197,274 tons in May. T'he total for the vear ending 30th June is 1,431,150.

The -Controller of Merchant Shipbuilding comments that it is encouraging to note that the tonnage of merchantm n completed in the United Kingdom for the quarter ending 30th June shows an increase of 78 per cent over the corresponding- quarter of 1917.

HOSPITAL SHIP OUTRAGE

GREAT OUTBURST OF INDIGNATION AGAINST THE HUNS SPEECH BY MR BONAR LAW 'LONDON, July 2. The Llandovery Castle out rase ite causing a violent outburst of indignation, a-companied in some quarters by demands for the most vigorous air reprisals on German towns, and whole sale internment of alien enemies. •In response to the latter demand, Mt Bonar Law. in the House of Common? promised that an _ opportunity would be given for discussing Government control of aliens next week. 'Mr Havelock Wilson (General Secretary-; of the (Seamen's a,nd Firemen' i? Asociation), in an interview, said that in consequence of the latest crime the British seamen's boycott of Germany after the war would be extended to six years. Mr Bonar Law, addressing the_ Intei*naifci'onal Parliamentary Conference, said, that we might have thought that there wag nothing new in Germany's' horrible war methods, but the sinking of the .Llandovery Castle was contrary to the principles the enemy professed, and constituted another unspeakable outrage. All the- evidence showed that the attempt to sink the vessel was in •acordancfe with the famous tele-gram that a .ship must disappear without leaving a race. But nothing was to be gained, by talking. The wild beast was at; large, and it was no use arguing or attempting to reason: We must destroy it,, . We must set our teeth until the f-nd; was achieved:

NO FURTHER SURVIVORS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable .Association and Reuter.) LONDON, July B. The Admiralty reports that the area between the spot where the Llandovery Castle was sunk and the southwestern coast of Ireland has been thoroughly searched by two groups of warships. Only a little wreckage' and one empty boat were found. It is therefore assumed , that there are no more survivors.

GENERAL INTERIM NT OF ALIENS DEM-'-NDEO '

GOVERNMENT CONSIDERING ACTION.

ROUNDING UP IN NORTH OF IRELAND.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

LONDON, July 2.

The rising tide again';* the Germans is since the outbreak following the Lusitania outrage, when mobs wrecked the alien quarters. It is suggested that Sir George Cave's recal from The Hague is in connection with far-rfeching internment measure? A Government committee of five member.t, of the House of Commons is examining the subject, and will be ready to report in a few days. Several municipal and other councils have passed -resolutions calling on the Government to strip honours from aliens bora in Germany, and intern them all.

Meanwhile the round-up has begun.' at Belfast and in the north of Ireland, alien enemies being foi-bidden to n • prohibited areas or within ten miles of the coast. Six hundred members of -the Liverpool iSailoi's' Union passed a resolution demanding that Mr HSavelock Wilson add a further five years to the boycott of Germany in coneequenre of the diabolical murders of those on the Llanddbvery Castle. * AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN'S INDIG--3S T ;ATT<>N. (Press Association Copyright.) /SYDNEY, July 3. The seamen express the greatest indignation at the Germans' : outrages, and maintain that every enemy alien, naturalised or not, should ,-be interned. The seamen's latest motto is, '-'Remember our torpedoed brothers."

A'R RAIDS

GERMAN WORKS BOMBED:

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and 'Reuter.i

(Rec. July 4, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON-, July 3.

The Independent Air Force, in an official report, states: —Oil the night of Ist July we successfully- attacked am aerodrome at Boulay. Bursts were observed, in the aerodrome and hutmentts.

We bombed with good effect at the ! Oppau works of Sbdafabrik, and also : the railway, line at Mannheim and the ; railway works at Thioiuville. We- bombed a railway .station at Treves on the 2nd and also bombed-: railway sidings and shed at Cobleuz wiifa good results. All our machines returned. | DEPORTED GREEKS. (Australian and -NiZ. Cable Association.) ! (Rec. July 4, 10.10. a.m.) LONDON'. July 3. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent reports that .M. Venizelos has decided to ask the Allied Governments : to hand over Colonel Mitaxeth, General ! Dousmanis and other deportees to the ; Greek Army for. court-martial punish- '. ment. ■ THE WAR~~ANNIV£RSARY. ' THE KING'S DESIRE. NATIONAL DAY IOF PRAYER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.) \ LONDON, July 2. The Press Bureau states that the King has expressed a desire that August 4th, being the fourth anniversary of the war, should be observed with special solemnity as a national day of prayer. a The King and Queen and both Houses of Parliament will attend a special in-tercessoi-y service on behalf of the nation and the Empire. _