AMERICAN SHIPPING PROFITS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14008, 12 March 1920, Page 4

AMERICAN SHIPPING PROFITS.

''Aus- arid N.Z. Cable»Assn.) Received March 12, at 9.20 a.m. NEW YORK, March 11. The Shipping Board ahnounces -that the profits on the Government operation of shipping business up to June 20,1919, totalled more than 166.000,000 dollars. EGYPTIAN SEPARATISTS. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 12, at 9.20 a.m CAIRO. March 10. J< The Legislative Assembly met unoffi- ; cially and adopted a fesofution declaring'the protectorate illegal; also'that Egypt and the Soudan were inseparably independent. AMERICAN GAME OF SHUFFLE.. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 12. at 9.30 a.m. WASHINGTON,-March 10. x Admiral Sims, testifying before the . Senate Naval Investigation Committee. J said that the failure of the Navy Department to act quickly upon Jus recommendation, and place the United States' entire naval resourcfes at the disposal of the Allies within six months i after America entered the conflict,,had , prolonged the war by at least four months. Admiral Sims declared that lie was sorely embarrassed by the lack of confidence and co-operation of the Navy Department during the most trying days of the war, and he repeatedly asked to be relieved of his command if . he had lost the Navy Department's confidence. Admiral Sims further / stated that the United States kept its main fleet in home waters, partly through fear of invasion and partly because it wished to possess the fleet, intact after the war had ended, while at the same time the Navy Department kept assuring the Allies of its intention to co-operate in European waters to the fullest extent.