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PRODUCTION OF SHIPS IN U.S.A. STATEMENT BY ADMIRAL VICKERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 5. Rear-Admiral Vickers, Vice-Chair-man of the Maritime Commission, disclosed that the Government had outlined .instructions for the scuttling of merchantmen quickly and effectively in order to withhold valuable cargoes from enemy seizure. He added that the number of ships turned out from American shipyards was still unsatisfactory. “’Unless we bring new life into the shipyards,” he said, “I cannot see where we are going to get the necessary ships.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 March 1942, Page 4
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