SWEPT FROM THE SEAS
BY FOREIGN SUBSIDISED FLEETS SHRINKING OF BRITISH TONNAGE OUTLOOK IN THE PACIFIC (Recd This Day, 10 a.m.) LONDON, July 8. During a debate in the House of Commons on the Board of Trade estimates there wks revealed a shrinkage in British tonnage. Excluding tankers there are 2000 fewer British ships than in 1914. They are being swept off the seas by foreign-subsidised fleets. Lieut.-Colonel L. C. M. S. Amery and Lieut.-Commander R. T. H. Fletcher drew attention to the position in the Pacific, and Mr R. H. Cross interposed that discussions regarding the Pacific had been resumed with the Dominions, with the object of ironing out difficulties, and that the outlook seemed reasonably hopeful for the construction of two ships.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 7
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124SWEPT FROM THE SEAS Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 July 1938, Page 7
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