SHIPPING CLAUSE IN PEACE TREATY
ALLIES' BAN ON GERMAN VESSELS QUID PRO QUO FOR SUNKEN SHIPS Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New York, August 14. Tim "Now York Times" states that shipping officials have been informed that a clause, is to bo inserted in the peace treaty prohibiting German steamships calling at Allied ports for a certain number of years. The prohibition will embrace Australia, New Zealand, and other colonies. It is understood that tho Allies are likely to insist on a quid pro quo for sunken Bhips, and will probably demand that the Vatorland (04,282 tons, HambnrgAmerika line) shall replace the Lusitania (30,396 tons, Cunard line). THE OIL AGE ON THE SEA BIG SCHEME BY SHIPPING SYNDICATE. London, August 14. i The "Manchester Guardian" states that a, British shipping syndicate .will carry out a proposal to purchaso oil interests in California which had been temporarily abandoned owing to financial conditions. The Cunard, Whito Star, Union Castle, Elder Dempster, Atlantic Transport, and Lcyland Lines' are involved. Most of their ships will be fitted for oil fuel when shipbuilding conditions are easier. THE NEW ZEALANDSHIPS RUMOUR QUESTION IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT. London, August 14. In the House of Commons, Mr. Lewis Harcourt stated that the Government did not proposo to follow New Zealand's example in building a Stato.lino of steamships. [Tho above and other -recent rumours have not been substantiated by the New Zealand Government. They are probably founded on tho observation mado by tho Primo Minister (Mr. Massey), in a recent discussion in Parliament that though lie was averso to Socialistic enterprises, lie would be inclined to favour some scheme for State steamers lor oversea trade.]
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2851, 16 August 1916, Page 5
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274SHIPPING CLAUSE IN PEACE TREATY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2851, 16 August 1916, Page 5
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