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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14874, 24 September 1918, Page 6

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Mr Hoover, in.■ a'statement, says.it will be necessary to ship 17,550,000 tons of- meat, fats. .brendstuiF.Sj sugar, and feed 'grains, to Europe .from the United States by July 19th/1919, to make possible the sending of an American array of 3.500.000 men to France 'by next summer, :im! adoqiiatelq provision the All'e.cl nations. ......

Mr Hoover points out that 'to obtain the necessary tonnage for tlie transportation of food and troops it will be necessary, to withdraw ships from the Axi&traiian and South Americin ts-ade, transEevring. them to the service be-

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'Trie Shipping Board constructed in •August 26!,039 tons of nhipping, as Compared v>i!;]i total Allied . losses in that pericd amounting to 2-30,40() tons.

The United States' ways are now' double 10 total shipways cf the rest of the -ivcrld. It is officially announced that 350 ships, aggregating- more than iwo million tons dead weight, liad been completed in the yards under the supervision of the .Emergency Fleet Corporation up to S^.pteittboT 14; th.-' In addition, during the same period, 264 ships were launched aggregating ' 1,223,000----%ons dead weight. , "'"""