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Archibald Fund writes in the Daily Telegraph as follows-
Inder the Peace Treaty Ger- many and Austria-Hungary wurrender all their sea-going tonnage to the Allies, and it is natural that some curiosity, if not anxiety, should be felt in this country as to the disposal of these vessels, amounting in the aggregate to about 5,000,000 tons The people of these islanda are particularly interested in this question, first, because they live] by ships, and, secondly, because in order to promote the Allied cause. they exposed, without reserva tion, the whole of their mercan tile tonnage to attack during the submarine campaign, and lost over 7,000,000 tons as a result of enemy action. The losses far exceeded those of all the other Allies" combined.
In these circumstances we are particularly concerned in the dis- position of the German shipping surrendered under the Peace Treaty. It is not a shipowners question, but a national question. These owners who had their ships sunk have already received com- pensation--if inadequate compen- Bation-under the War Insurance scheme, and consequently it is a mistake to regard the matter as one of importance only to the shipping industry. It is a matter which touches the pocket of every taxpayer especially as merchant shipping has now risen to a phenomenal price. Owing to
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abricus that if they had not the shortening of hours in ship-taken refuge in American ports yards, the raising of the wages of the workers, and the reduction of output per working hour, the tendency is for the cost of con- struction to continue to rise. It is in these circumstances matter of vital importance to the British people that they should be able to secure at least their fair share of enemy tonnage.
TON FOR TON POLICY.
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It is understood that agreement has been reached as to the basis of distribution," the following principles having been accepted:
1. Each of the Allies will retain the enemy tonnage in its possession, that is, the ships captured or interned during the
WPT.
2. The remainder of the enemy tonnage will be shared by the Allies on the ton for ton principle, each country receiving com- pensation in proportion to the losses which it sustained owing to enemy action.
3. The ships retained by each Ally in accordance with (1) will be offset against the losses, and if the interned vessels exceed the losses, as in the case of the United States and Brazil, for in stance, the excess will be paid for in cash into the Allied pool.
the majority of them would have been captured by British Cruisers and brought into British porta sa prizes. On the contrary, these German vessels were protected by American neutrality down to the period-in April, 1916-when the United States entered the wan The Senate then passed a resolu- tion, the legality of which in international law it is unneces- sary to panse to discuss, declaring that all these vessels had become American-
In property, cordance with this resolution, the
ac-
ships hoisted the American flag, were manned by American officers and men, and from that time forward, though regarded American ships, were employed very largely in the common interests of the Allies.
LABOUR AND BRITISH
As
General Sir H 8 Horne, open- fing an ex-Service Man's Club and Institute of which he is the President at Northampton, said #that he wanted to take that opportunity of expressing bis appreciation of the character of the British soldier. As he watch. ed the triumphal march of the troops through London earlier in the day he said to himself, “I know, now, why we won the war.” (Cheers.) The reason was apparent in the British character, in the men's faces, in their eyes, Fin their jaws, and it was that character that never knew when it was beaten, that pulled, us through the critical days which came at the end of March and the beginning of April last year. Only the dogged determination of the British character saved the Empire then. Sir Douglas Haig's blunt statement to his Army that they were fighting with their backa to the wall," and that it was their business to stick fit out would have created des
pondency in troops of a different type, but in the men under his command it had exactly the opposite effect (cheers), and the moral of the British Army was never higher than in the really bad time experienced in March 1918. That was an extraordinary thing. (Cheers.)
Any soldier was well aware of the value of such institutes as the one he was opening in enabling] those who had served together to keep up the friendship, and in Preserving the sense of comrade- ship they formed during the war, He warned them not to let the institute be turned into a political organisation (cheers), but to pre- serve it as an ex-Service men's
institution. There was only one matter on which they were justified in combining, a matter on which it was impossible for them to think differently, and that was in seeing that those who had fought for England were fairly ang justly treated. (Cheers.) Sir Douglas Haig was championing the cause of the ex-officer and ex- soldier, and was doing a great
deal for them (cheers), and they all knew Sir Douglas was e man who was not influenced in any consideration. (Cheers) Bute onc way by any special political
anything in the nature of party politics was allowed to creep in at the front door of the club, comradeship and good fellowship would go (Cheers).
out at the back.
Mons men who had served under General Horne formed a
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guard of honour, and, he was Photograhed with them. institute has already 1,600 mem-: bers.
Circuit next week. He will be succeeded in the Attorney. Generalship by Mr. Denis Heary. M.P., Solicitor-General, whose present office will be filled by Mr. D. M. Wilson, K.C., M.P,
When the armistice was signed, public opinion in the United States expressed itself as strongly opposed to relinquishing the major portion of these ships in accordance with the ton-for-ton policy, particularly as most of them would then have passed automatically under the British flag. As it is, the Americans will retain shipping far in excess of the small losses which they incurred by sea-roughly, one-
NEW IRISH JUDGE twentieth of this country's losses.
The Irish Attorney-General. This settlement is in some but, to the extent to which the
Mr. A. W. Samuels, K.C., M.P respects unfavourable to this interned ships exceed the losses,
for Dublin University, has been country, whose services in plac- compensation will be paid in cash ing its merchant shipping at the to the common pool. The same
appointed a Judge in the High. service of the Allies bare never principle will of course, be appli-Court, and will go on Assize been adequately appreciated.ed to Brazil. Only those connected with the shipping industry, who realise
SHIPPING. that without British ships" the
Nothing is to be gained by Allied armies could not have been maintained and the Allied distorting this matter or by im- populations preserved from porting into it considerations starvation, can form a correct which rest upon no solil found- to ation. Keen competition by sea extent conception of the
with the United States must be which British merchant ships, minned by officers and.men of regarded as one of the inevitable incomparable courage and tea results of the war. But, ist acity, contributed to the victory us keep to facts. Messages froma the other side of the. which has now been consummat ed. A peace treaty, as well as Atlantic recently published have the settlements flowing from it, is tended to hide the essentials of necessarily a matter of com- the present situation. We have promise, since many Powers are emerged from the war with almost 15,000,000 tons of shipping. involved, and the instrument which has been fashioned in whereas five years ago we had Paris is no exception to this upwards of 18,000,000 tons for general rule. But in gaining we have replaced a good deal of acceptance of the ton per too tonnage. The United States at policy, some measure of "justice the opening of the European war has been secured for British possessed about 2,000,000 tons of maritime interests.
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691-going shipping, apart, that is, from vessels on the Great Lakes; the Americans now have, about 5,033,000, tons.
other day a ship arriving from America had to carry back its cargo, And then, thirdly delays of the most sericas character are occurring in bunkering ships.
The result of the interferences with the normal flow of shipping is to throw an increasing-pro- portion of the world's carrying trade into the hands of the Norwegians, Americana, the Scandinavian, and the Japanese. The shipping interesta are natur- ally, taking the fallest possible advantage of our war embarrass ments and of the handicap which British labour, without realising the consequences, is imposing upon the great and tial industry of the country. The mercantile position, upon which every British interest depends, was indeed never more serious than it is to-day. The Americans and the Japanese are turning out a great volume of tonnage, and the ships are being well designed and well, built, There is no greater mistake than to this competition as ephemera
the cont It is on factor which will here taken into seriou good many, tlig, ware will be folly caditional, 2 thir
SHIPS IN THE UNITED STATES. It is desirable that the mis- apprehension which apparently A larger propor ion of American exists with, reference to the than of British tonnage is necess attitude of the United States to sarily at sea at this moment, wards enemy, ships interned in engaged in commerce carrying, American por s should be re- because we are still preoccupied moved. The sequence of events with the urgent problem of demo on the other side of the Atlantic bilising Brillah, and particularly goes, some way to explain the Dominion poops and supplying decision which has now been the army ofpccupation. Further reached. In the early days of more, the amount of British the war, owing to the activity of tonnage now being employed is the British
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