GERMAN SHIPPING LINES.

Taihape Daily Times, 3 July 1919, Page 6

GERMAN SHIPPING LINES.

ACTION BY AAIERICA. 7 NEW YORK WHAR-VES BOUGHT. The late Herr Albert Ballin’s dream of his steamship company, the Ham-burg-Amerika Line, -monopolising the trails-Atlantic passenger business, and British vessels thankful for German leavings, writes a New York correspondent, was shattered when British sea—power was exerted at the outbreak of war, and the Vaterland, now Leviathan, and other great German ships went scurrying to New York to seek a place of shelter, or, if already there, refrained from putting to sea. When the American Governmeni‘, took over the German‘ vessels Herr Ballin knew there was no longer any hope of a resumption of tral'i*ie, and the American Government has now made it impossible for any future passenger service to be carried on between German ports and New York by purchasing from the Allan Property Custodian all the piers and wharf property of the Hamburg-Amerika Line in the port of New York. The Hamburg"-r}.nlel*ika Line may have a paper existence, but with no ships and no place to dock them in New York, its business is destroyed, and piers to- replace those now in possession of the Government caninot be ‘obtained, I The North German Lloyd also have lextensive German piers in New York, which are now under the control of

also the Anlcl'ican Government will purchase, thus closing the port uto the two steamship lines on which "Germany rbuilt such great hopes. The pi'c'rs will be used by the Shipping Board for its own commercial vessels.