SHIPPING OF THE FUTURE
1 Britain's Tonnage Scarcity j JAPAN REAPING A HARVEST. I LONDON, October 5' ! Lord Incthape calculates that the British Empire has lost eight millions of merchant tonnage • 'by enemy action. We are unaible to rapidly replace the losses. Meanwhile Japan Ihas gone ahead with, enormous strides, and is reaping the harvest of the high freigihte. America is building at a great rate. He is afraid of what the position will be after the war. It will take many years before British shipping wall recover its pre-war place, but IT the industry is unhampered by Government control, it would carry on and recover its supremacy.—lA and N.Z. Calble. ' ' '
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Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 1
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