THE U-BOAT BILL.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1919, Page 7

THE U-BOAT BILL.

GERMANY'S BUILDING POWER. Captain Peraius, writing in the Berliner Tageblalt with reference to the shipping construction problem, says: By the Pcaeo Treaty we agreed to hand over all our merchant ships of HMO tons and over. As regards the 200,000 tons to be constructed vearlv, our Government; has proposed to hand over durinthe first year only 100.000 tons, and after that to increase the amount each year up to 300,000 tons in the last year No reply to this offer has yet been received hut in any case we shall have no diflieulty m building 200,000 tons yearly for foreign account, provided our'dockyards are given a fair chance of working,, During 1913 over half a million tons were built in German dockyards, and many m nv dockyards have, ot course, been established during the war and the old ones enlarged, Even if we lose Flensbwg „jid Dantx.lg, we can still easily produce half a million tons per annum, particularly in view of the fact that the abolition of conscription will place a much larger number of workmen at our disposal.