THE CAPTURED TONNAGE.

Colonist, Volume LXI, Issue 15075, 19 May 1919, Page 5

THE CAPTURED TONNAGE.

AMERICAN RAPACITY.

RETENTION OF ALL SEIZED : -vessels. :: ■

((s&sffistraliari- &,'%.%.. Cable AGsociatioau^

(Received 'May' 18, 5.5 p.m ) .-,., , Wis, .May 17. It ms been decided that-(500,000 tons of German shipping seized In American harbours shall remain American property. America will pay its -.value into the reparation-pool.- The result has ■t-ast a- temporary c'loikl over AngloAmerican relations..

: The British claimed that'the icoh-for-■ton and elass-for-class formula should govern the decision, particularly an the vessels were driven -to shelter ;in America by the1. British fleet.

Jft is pointed put that America gets 258,488 tons more £han she lost vraerens Britain lost 7^638,020 -tons in Avartime, and holds..only 4So,oootons oi enemy tonnage.