SEA SERVICES.
BRITAIN HAS UTILE TO FEAR. STATEMENT BY LORD INCHCAPE. v Cab!e--Press Association—(Australian and N. 4. Cable Association.) (.Received June 4tli, o.u p-ni.) LONDON, June 2. Addressing the Dundee Chaiubor of Commerce, Lord Inchcapo said the British mercantile marine had not much to fear from the rest of the world, .shipowners always had I eon up against world competition. There was no monopoly on the mm. "~\\e used to henr a good deal about the freedom of the seas," he said. "The American Shipping Board and the Commonwealth of Australia are having a' taste of it, and 1 am not sure they altogether like it-. I think they are finding it an expensive luxury of which the taxpayers in the course of time will get tired.'' Mr Larkin, general manager of the Commonwealth Government Line, commenting on Lord Inchcape's statement, says there is only one thing to say, and that is, whether or not the Commonwealth likes trading, he is quite wire , Lord Inchcapo dislikes it.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17472, 5 June 1922, Page 7
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167SEA SERVICES. Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17472, 5 June 1922, Page 7
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