"NEVER GRAVER"
SITUATION OF MERCHANT NAVY
NEED STRESSED
MORE SHIPS AND MEN
(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.)
(Received December 8, 11 a.m.)
LONDON, December 7.
Lord Lloyd, in a speech at a Navy League meeting, said that the situation of the merchant navy was never graver. It had 2000 ships fewer than in 1914, though there were 20 per cent, more people to feed. Britain's strategical position in the Far East and the Mediterranean had been modified to her disadvantage, and there was need, for more ships, more men, and more efficient men.
The shipping editor of the "Daily Telegraph" reports that Italy is building thirty-seven cargo ships and seven passenger liners, to be delivered in 1941. Their construction is being operated with the aid of a Government subsidy, and plans have had the approval of naval authorities
providing for the mounting of 6.1----inch guns. In Tokio last month 119 vessels were under construction, of a total of 83,280 tons.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 138, 8 December 1938, Page 9
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