STATEMENT BY ADMIRAL LACAZE.
I&LQS WILL NOT, BE STARVED. Received May 27, 6j6 p.m. / Paris, May 26. , 'Admiral Lacaze (Minister for Marine) stated in the Chamber that 2J million toafc of Alßed shipping had been sunk lb' four months, adding that, taking into account the new construction, and if the submarine warfare continues at the same intensity, 4% million tons may be -sunk in Ml 7 out of a total tonnage \>t 40,000,000, bat this decrease in tonnage is Hot going to result in the starvation bf tie -Allies. By October all French ship* -will fo armed with two 4.7 guns. JVAR RISKS LARGELY DECREASED. Australian Cable Association. Received Hay 27, 5.5 p.m. New York, May 20. The" war risk insurance of merchantmen Ijonnd to Britain has been reduced thirty-three and a third per cent, as the outcome of favorable reports as/to the submarine zone. In some instances the redaction -was fifty per cent; upon the London market for ships to New York. - IBENCH SHTPPINQ RETCKNS. • ' Paris, May 25. bifieial.—The week's shipping returns nhow Arrivals Wl, sailings 1016, sinkings < above WOO tone one, below 1600 tons .*Wo, imjroecesfully, attacked three.
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Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1917, Page 5
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190STATEMENT BY ADMIRAL LACAZE. Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1917, Page 5
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