REDUCED SHIPPING AFTER WAR
BRITAIN AT DISADVANTAGE Reed 8.30 p.m. London, April 20. Britain, after the war, will have only half her pre-war merchant shipping tonnage, whereas America will be threefold her pre-war tonnage," said Mr. W. O. Warwick, director of 40 kindred companies, in a speech al. Warwick. Up estimated that the respective Britisn and American postwar gross registers would be 10,000 000 and 30,000,000. Up added that Britain had suffered huge losses from enemy action and had also coiv'cnlrated on building battleship.- and cruisers. Only rest rirled facilities had been available for building merchant tonnage,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 94, 21 April 1944, Page 5
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