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6.

The difficulty of estimating the number of ships

that can yet be taken is enhanced by the uncertainty as to the movements of Allied and mistral tonnage. It is ramoured that Japan proposes to place restrictions upon the use of her tonnage. The Committee are informed that the S. 9. "Prometheus" under the Norwegian flag, on time charter on the coast, has been taken over by the Imperial Authorities. There are some twenty-five vessels running in similar circumstances in local trades, and, if these or any of them are similarly taken, any estimate regarding available British tonnage falls at once to the ground.

The Committee's position is in short that if British and Chinese interests are to be maintained no British ship can be spared although in extreme national urgency every British ship might have to be spared. The Committee are working under the following instructions:- "Decided to requi- -sition all British steamers on Indian and Far Eastern Liner Services in order that they may be employed with utmost possible economy on most essential services" Secretary of State's telegram of the 7th. March: *Unless and until you aîɩ otherwise directed, it is not the desire of the Government to interfere either with the nature of your business or the method of conducting it" letter of 5th. May from the Ministry of Shipping: "All British liners are being requisitoned, but that does not necessarily imply that they would all be divert- -ed from their previous trade routea" Secretary of State's telegram of the 10th. August: "The Home Office want every possible relief" Secretary of State's telegram of the 12th, May.

8.

The last is the key to the whole situation. While

in the opinion of the Committee all British vessels on the

coast are probably required to keep together a nucleus of the

British