HUTCH SHIPPING
taken by the allies. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPYRIGHT.] (Received This Dav at 10.1f>. a.m.) LONDON March 14. It is understood that the 'Allies are arranging to take over the Dutch shipping now lying at Allied ports, The ships will he centured, armed and convoyed, and he returned to the owners after the war. Any sunk in the-danger zone -will be replaced after peace. The Dtutch Government owing to German pressure, has not yet ratified an agreement arrived at with the Dutch Commission in London two months ago, whereby Holland was to be ration ed with fodder and foodstuffs, in return for placing 600,000 tons of Dutch shipping at the disposal of the Allies.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 March 1918, Page 3
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