PROVISION OF SHIPS
IMMENSE BUILDING OPERATIONS IN AMERICA VESSELS PLACED AT ALLIES' SERVICE (Rec. March 29, 11 p.m.) Now York, March 27. Mr. Hurley, Chairman of the Shipping Board, in a speech, stated that America had 37 steel shipyards when she entered tho war, and had since established an additional 81. We have 5,160,000 tons of shipping under contract, of which 2,121,000 tons- are completed. We also have 3,000,000 tons of requisitioned vessels. We have 1 placed at the Allies. , service 112 German and Austrian vessels, totalling 800,000 tons. We have 730 wooden and steel ways, compared with 219 in England. We have increased the number of shipworkers 'from 45,000 to 236,000. We will have a shipbuilding machine within eight months which will bo able to defeat Germany.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 163, 30 March 1918, Page 8
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130PROVISION OF SHIPS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 163, 30 March 1918, Page 8
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