BIG AMERICAN NEEDS.

Hokitika Guardian, 25 September 1918, Page 1

BIG AMERICAN NEEDS.

OF FOOD TRANSPORT, fern rnicss association. —copyright.] WASHINGTON, September ‘23. M.r Hoover, in a statomcyU. says j, will hr; necessary to .ship lv,ou|U tons of meats, fats, breadstuff, and feed trains to Europe IVotn tlu; United States by July. 1919. to make possiblo the sending of an American Army of 3.r, 00,00 to France by next Summer and adequately provision the. Allied nations. Mr Hoover points out that to obtain tlie necessary tonnage for the transportation of food and troops it will he neeessarv to withdraw Allied ships from the Australian and South American trade, transferring them tor service between Kurope and Nortii America. . The Shipping Board constructed m Vu-Mist, 301,039 tons of shipping, as com pared with a total Allied loss for that period amounting to 259,40(1 tons. The United States ways now double the total shipways of the rest «1 the world. It is officially announced that 350 ships, aggregaing more than two million toils deadweight, have been completed in yards under supervision of the Emergency lHeet Corporation. IT,, to September 14th.. in addition, during the same period. 204 ships were lunched aggregating 12.2.30.090 toils dead-weight.

the shipping shortage. WELLINGTON, September 24. Referring, to Mr Hoover. American Food Controller’s statement regarding shipping, Hon. Mr Guthrie said to-day lie had received no advice of this intention of the imperial authorities to divert any of the ships already prom-, ised to New Zealand elswhere. He arrangement made so far extend only to the end of this year, but nothing has happenord to lead the Government to suppose there will he no ships alter that time. Contrariwise, the indica tions have been that there will then be a reasonable amount of shipping available for New Zealand trade.