GERMAN SHIPPING

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3096, 29 May 1917, Page 6

GERMAN SHIPPING

2,100,000 TONS BLOCKADED. A Biisle telegram to the Palis "Temps" gives the tonnage of German ships blockaded iu the various neutral countries as stated-in a German technical journal Tho list is as follows:— , ' r ° ns - Tons. Sweden 3,751 X. America Norway 28,850 '' (VY. Coast) 78,177 Denmark .... BC7 'Mexico 8 716 Holland 111,750 Cuba 23*733 Belgium S-t,832 S. America Spain n<1.928 (W. Coast) 336,000 I'arEast 58,515 Argentino „ ai.flfiS Dutch Indies 125,138 Las Palmas 69,796 AVest Africa 770 Brazil 208 387 N. America Others 35 813 (B. Coast) 536,006 Tho total is put at 553 ships representing i!,100,fll)0 tons. The "Temps" points out that at the outbreak of war the German marine counted 1549 ships of 5,073,000 tonnage, and that during the war she has lost, apart from ships blockaded in neutral ports, 1,500,000 tons of shipping. If, as is likely iu the event of a German defeat, ships in foreign ports are held as guarantees to compensate ships sunk, German shipping would at the end of the war be reduced by 70 per cent. IS YOUR COAL-BIN EMPTY? AVhen you 81l it get SAA'EO-'The National Coal Saver." A sixpenny packet makes four cwt. coal last as long as six. Stocked by D.I.'C, Brandon Street; W.K.U.A., Lainbtou Quay; George AVinder, Cuba Street: Wardell's, AVillis. Street; Cooper Hardware, Nowtown. Special quotations to works and factories. AVholesale only. Siiveo Proprietary, Box 399, AVellington.—Advt