SHIPPING PEOPLE NOT DISTURBED BY THREATS.
(Received February 6, 9.20 a.m.) SYDNEY Feb. 6. Shipping circles regard the German threat of attack on unarmed'merchantmen with equanimity, The general opinion is that this is another instance of German bluster, and that the British Navy ib capable of protecting" the merchant service. This sort of thing is always expected. The wonder is that we have had so little of it.
Passenger vessels are filling as usual. The general manager of the Orient line thinks the Germans capable of any action after the attack on the hospital ship Asturias. Possibly the war rates will be raised, but it is inconceivable in view of, other German threats that the public ate going to be intimidated. Colonel. Burns, of the Burns.t Philip line, says surely the greatest sea power in the world is capable of undertaking everything necessary for the safety of vessels in the Channel, That threat is a kind of desperate appeal to try to frighten people following their usual business.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13602, 6 February 1915, Page 3
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