ANOTHER BILL FOR THE HUNS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 177, 26 May 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

ANOTHER BILL FOR THE HUNS.

PAY FOR THEIR IMTEBNED VESSELS.

When peace is declared the Huns will have to pay off some huge bills on their ships now in neutral ports. And the longer the war lasts the '.• ;;ger will be the bills the German shipping lines will have to pay. Whenever a ship arrives in port it has to pay various dues, such as tonnage dues, which go towards the upkeep of the port and the lighthouses that warn ships of danger in different parts of tho world.

In Xew York Harbour and other American harbours there arc many Gorman ships interned, and the laying up expenses in connection with thcni ain now so enormous tbat many of the ships will have to do .sold in order to pay tli.' dues on tliein. The dues already on soino of the I»i HamburgAnverika liners are so great that the liners will bo forced to run at ■.. ln-s for many a long month after the war. ii will give sonic idea of wlial German ,'diippfng lines are losing when it ■: staled that the Hambnrg-Amon'tai line alone is losing IMO,U'.MI a day. Tim company is subsidised by the German (!ovorum in, or, of cour.-e, it would at oin e go smash.