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Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3041, 5 April 1923, Page 6

The statistics of the Suck passenger traffic for 1922 illustrate the war’s effect ou German shipping. There were only 501) passengers on German ships, compared with 25,000 in ,1913. A large, proportion of the traffic has go,ne- to Dutch lines; the British carried 93,000 or 59 per cent of the total. It is noteworthy that, the British had 94 per cent of the Indian, and 94 per cent of the Australian, traffic. German traffic to Australia, and Austrian traffic to India has completely disappeared. German traffic to China and. Japan, which was 35 per cent in 1913, shrunk to one per cent.