BRITISH SHIPBUILDING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16494, 23 July 1919, Page 3

BRITISH SHIPBUILDING.

NEED FOR GREAT EFFORTS. TO RECOVER THE LEAD. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. LONDON, July 22. Archibald Hurd, writing in the Daily Telegraph, says 2.524,050 tons of shipping is now being built in Britain,' a gratifying increase of 2(50.000 tons on the March quarter. Shipowners are showing line enterprise, hut it is regrettable that the coal strikes arc crippling their attempts to recover the losses of the war. Ships are Britain’s greatest need. America secured ilie cream of Germany's passenger liners, and now possesses four million tons more than in 191.1. Japan also has increased her merchant fleet by 25 per cent. Both of these countries are still building at a maximum rate of output. British national effort is imperative because we have lost supremacy since 1914. America is now building 994 vessels of a tonnage of 3.874,143; Britain 782 vessels of a. tonnage of 2,524,050; the British Dominions 209 vessels of a tonnage of 016,453; Japan 63 vessels of a tonnage of 282,060. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.