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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 207, 21 May 1918, Page 4

Captain Persiue, naval correspondent of the Berlin Daily Paper, statos that, owing to prospective shortage of wood, steel, and iron for shipbuilding after the war, loading Gorman and Austrian dockyards are preparing to use ferro-concrete on a large scale. Yards aro now being reconstructed to that oud. Poreiue takes the view that all tho great shipbuilding countries will bo put to the sanio aeces-. sity as Gormany to find substitutes for wood, iron,, and 6teol. Germany, he thinks, will be in a hotter position than any of tho rest for ferro-concreto construction, because "Wo possess the most important cement industry in tho world. We have far outstripped France, the country where tho most •veieatile uses were formerly made of cement, while wo have given tho English, tho inventors of cement, tho fiercest competition in the markets of the world. There 6eems every reason to hope that in future the largest ships flying the German flag will be partiafly of forro-conoreto construction." j