THE SHIPPING SHORTAGE.
In the House of Commons‘Dr Macnamara stated that the total new tonnage of Britain, her Allies, and neutrals to the end of 1917 was 8.806,275. Senator Harding, in the course of a speech, said that the losses of the world’s shipping up to January by submarines totalled 4,000,000 tons. If the present rate of production in the British and American shipyards was kept up. the losses would he replaced and the normal balance restored by the middle of 1919,- provided the present average rate of sinkings was not increased. Mr Lansing, Secretary of State, has issued a statement replying to the Dutch Government’s disapproval of the seizure of Dutch ships in American ports. Mr Lansing declares that shortages of shipping threatened to postpone at frightful cost the Allies’ ultimate victory over militarism. This groat emergency justified the temporary seizure, which, he says, “ leaves available for the Netherlands the greater part of their merchant tonnage.” _Mr Lansing adds that the friendly relations between both Governments remain unchanged.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3344, 17 April 1918, Page 17
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