NORTH GERMAN LLOYD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5, 4 September 1915, Page 7

NORTH GERMAN LLOYD.

YEAR-BOOK BOASTING.

Some interesting figures, which enable one the better to realise the huge

extent of Germany's loss in the disappearance of her shipping from the high seas, are given in the North German Lloyd Year Book, which, in spite of the war, the company has brought out as usual.

According to the statistics given, in the year 1914 although the German lines were only able to work for seven months in the North Atlantic, they had higher figures to their credit than the corresponding English lines for that period, and then the lines of all other nations for the. whole year. At the outbreak of the war the North German Lloyd had a working capital of 200,000,000 marks (£lO,-

40 different lines, traversing all the seas of the world, and number altogether 409 vessels, with a total capacity of almost a million tons gross. A large part of the book is occupied with the v adventures of the many company's steamers which were overtaken by" the outbreak of war in all : part s of the globe. The greatest prominence is naturally given to those which were employed | as armed cruisers, or as tenders either; 1 jto these or to regular warships of the I. I German navy. - » It is .stated that up to the middle of May 44 employees of the company had given their lives for the Fatherland, while no fewer than 61 had been awarded the almost inevitable Iron, Cross. , i