The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORTED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916. THE SUEZ CANAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 7, 7 August 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORTED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1916. THE SUEZ CANAL.

In connection with the recent messages stating that the Suez Canal rates are to be advanced from October next, it is interesting to note that the report of the Suez Canal Company for 1915 .states' that the net tonnago which passed through the waterway during the year was 15,260,200, as compared with 19,409,500 in 101 I. The decline is accounted for by the disappearance of German, Austrian, and Turkish vessels, whose tonnage in 1913__the last normal shipping year —amount to 4,239,800. A good deal of commercial traffic was displaced, hut much of it was made up for by the voyages of warships, which represented 3,379,000 ions, as compared with only 301,100 tons in L 913. The British proportion of the total tonnage using the canal in 1913 was 60 per cent" in 1914 it was 06 per cent.. .Hid last vear it was 70 per cent. Total receipts were C 3,929,123, or a do-

fi-easo on tin previous your <>'■ (•| ,075 725. It is estimated that the increase of revenue that will result f,. o m the rise in dues recently annqftn,.P,l will amount to C 300,000 on the 1015 tonnage basis.