CONTROL OF SHIPPING
NECESSARY FOR DEMOBILISATION WORK.
(HI TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) (AUSTRALUN-NEIV ZEALAND CABLE,ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 19th May (delayed). ; In a debate on the Ministry of Shipping vote, Mr, Leslie Wilson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, said that some control of shipping was necessary for the work of demobilisation and repatriation. The Ministry had handed over the building.contracts for 159 ships to British owners who had suffered losses during the war, and had sold 68 vesselG to British owners and 57 to foreigners. Altogether it had received 19-£ millions for ships which had cost 16.1- millions. The British ships of over 500 tons beiore the war had aggregated 18,500,000 tons. This total was reduced to 15,300,000 tons by the beginning 'of 1910. The pre-war* tonnage of the United States was 1,700,000; it was now 6,400,000. Britain had constructed 551,629 tons of new ships since the armistice.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 2 June 1919, Page 7
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146CONTROL OF SHIPPING Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 2 June 1919, Page 7
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