AMERICA'S NEW SHIPS
FINAL CONSTRUCTION PLANS WHAT GENERAL GOETHALS HOPES TO DO New York, July 15. Major-General Goethals's final plane for ship construction provide for <148 wooden and 477 steel vessels,, to total 4,711,000 tons, besides taking over 1,500,000 tons of ships being privately constructed. The total, with the present merchantmen, will give 'Ajnerica nearly nine million tons within two years. The federating of the shipyards will start next week, and the yards will Temain. under the present management, with Government supervision. The president of a shipbuilding company announced that it had contracted to build from forty to a hundred ships for a European ■ ally, costing 18 .to 50 million dollars. He refused to name the contracting Government.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BAN' ON GERMAN MARINE INSURANCE COMPANIES. Washington, July 15. A- proclamation prohibits Germanowned marine insuranco companies operating in the United States, on tho ground that they are able to transmit shipping information to Germany. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3138, 17 July 1917, Page 5
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157AMERICA'S NEW SHIPS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3138, 17 July 1917, Page 5
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