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GERMANY'S LAID-UP

SHIPPING.

STORIES OF LARGE NEW CONSTRUCTION.

Perhaps the most accurate estimate of the present state of German mercantile shipping that has yet been published in Germany was that given in Berlin by Captain C. Schroter, of Hamborg, before the Institute of Neutical Science. His lecture seems to have been based on a great vaass of statistical information which has certainly not besh forthcoming in any Ger- man publication or periodical. He stated

that since the war 162 ships with a tonnage of 482,000 had been destroyed

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taus make good the losses, they had suffered. (FORD'S (FORTUNE FOR The Reichstag also expressed the desire that effective steps should be taken to rehabilitate the German mercantile fleet as rapidly as possible. That was in May, last.

BIGNIFICANT COMPLAINTS,"

But

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And the Ford fortune, if lent, to the Government, will be leat on the same

APRIL 6TH. 1917.

INDIGESTION.

WHY TOLERATE IT

Why suffer from indigestion, from pains after eating,

fasulence, acidity headaches, biliousness, dizziness, or con- stipation 1 Why?

16 16 a remarkable fact that women especially seem prose të make light of digestive troubles, forgetful of the greater evils which may and do arise therefrom. From the many letters we receive, it is clear that in hundreds of cases, women, yes, and men, too, bave en- dared much deedless suffering and well-

because migh made shipwreck of their lives, hot that would relieve or banish their hil the warnings of their trouble ments, but simply because they neglected Now Mother Seigel's Syrup has been proved by thousand of former sufferers to be the surest means of eradicating In- and Stomach, and Liver.

they did not know of a remedy

sut

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Mr. Henry Ford's spare money and For some time the Press talked vaguely he certainly has a lot of it too much, of a boom in shipbuilding, the result of he has sometimes remarked, "for any

Government's intervention, the gradually it died away, and in September one man to try to keep all to himself Herr Ballin was saying in an interview will be at the disposa, of the United that as sour as war began work on all large

well as the 46,000 as all hands were States Government, as liners was suspended, required for navy work. All that was employés and the wonderful Detroit being done at the moment was to make ! arrangements for a prompt resumption of factory he has already offered, in the work on the mercantile marina directly the event of the United States untering the war came to an end. Soon significant plaints began to appear in the Fresa of the European war, way in which German shipping was bei treated by the Government. It was that the German companies were receiving greater them by the enforced idleness of the payment for tho ships which were own time-No propt requisitioned by the Government was by no means so generous as in England and France. Indeed there can be no doubt that the prospects of German shipping area by no means as brilliant as the typical with a total tannage of 2,341,000, were lying Press article tries to make out. fair have when it requires it And the loan thorough working order can you escape interued, condemned to inactivity, and 490 Proof, may be taken from the attitude of will be without any interest. There will the pains and penalties of indigestion and

neutral investors to German steamship

fodicinal extracts steamers, of altogether 2,410,000 tons, were shares. In August last, for instance, the bono percenage. No profit. I don't obtain proper nourishment from your

following

advertisements appeared in a want to make anything. I wouldn't take stili at home. Captain Schroter bum-Danish paper dated the 6th and 8th re- cent of profit from the Government gredients in Mother Seigel's Syrup act, mariced these figures as follows:7.1 perspectively:

Shares in Humburg-Amerika Lino under.. cent of the total tonnage of the German (the world's biggest steamship company) $1,000 marks share

no compensation for the loss entailed on principle that he has already enunciated Troubles. It therefore you are suffering

either by mines or torpedoes; 297 ships portion of their fleets, and that even the as to his factory, his employés and his Mother. Seigel's Syrup, and put your

with a total cargo room of 807,000 tons had been retained by the enemy, who had aside the most complete use of them In neutral harboars 621 merchant vessels,

to day, net at once by taking a course of stomach, liver and bowels into proper "Whatever part the Government needs working order for upon the healthful to digest food thoroughly and the Government may maintain good health Only when your of what I've got," Mr. Ford said to action of those organs depends your Horld reporter,

stomach and liver have been restared to

any circumstances:"

PACIFISTS MAKE FIGHTERS." You can't tell about us pacifists,

•The

and other in-

upon the organs of digestion. toning up and strengthening the stomach, gently stimulating the action of the liver, and

the bowels. In regulating whole system benefits in a remarkable matinere twenty years o

mercantile marine (5,300,000 tons) finally to be sold for 750 kronen for CACH Mr. Ford laughed, "Sometimes I think this voy 1. Indigestion, is banished and the

and irremediably lost, 14.1 per cent, in the hands of the enemy, and 43 per cent, in

mentral harbours;

These facts sound far more cheerful than they really dre, even side by side with the comparatively sovere losses of British ship ping.

9-A big lot of 1,000-mark shares in the world's greatest steamship company, the Hamburg-Amurika Line, to at 725 kronen the share!

Thus the price per share dropped 25 kronen in two days, and, moreover, the price in Denmark before, the war was 1,300 kronen per share The Dutch Press,

port

a pacifist is like a cat. It may seem a gentle creature that you can fondle in

"To see me years ago and to- inoffensive, harmless sort of thing But back a cat up in a comer or a pacifist day, you would not think that I am the and you're gut the worst kind of a same woman, enjoying, as I do now, such splendid health. At that time I suffered fighter you've ever seeit.

most severely from Indigestion, which the form of severe pains in the chest, through to my back, between the

Now, I don't believe in offensive fighting, either for an individual or &

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For, apart from the actual 100, recently recorded the fact that a nation, but if anybody attacks me or 716ter blades. My cure from the weak deterioration of those bottoms laid up in attempt to create a market in German attacks the United States, believe me tato I got into was solely through the

shipping share, ou the Amsterdam Ex-Fm going to fight and fight hard. And use of your Mother Beigol's Syrup." pentrat ports, the fact remains that the change met with no success sometimes the best thing a pacifist can do Mrs. E. Brain, West Town, Bristol, 14th

is to help get a fight over my quickly EsJuly, 1016. shipbuilding industry in Germany, og far If the yards were silent, however.

the dock sides deserted the council Las the mercantile marine is concerned, has bers were busy Day by day the possible, y Quick been practically at a standstill since the ance attached to the developme wer began. A first there may have been mercantile marine grew in

that it might be ready on considerable activity in the German ship yards, for the leaders of German shipping had always realised what dangers a war with Britain would bring to their ship ping. So the resy pictures of a boom in the shipbuilding industries which have appeared from time to time in certain periodicals should be taken as the wish which, being father to the thought, cannot coal and iron magnate at West or shovels, or khaki, about those bask

•help having a distinctly "tendencious" character

of the

Mr Ford didn't dwell upon his idea many, so of lending his fortune to the Govern conclusionment. His simply stated it in a quiet, of pesce to step back in old position matter-of-fact way. Indeed, his mention in the carrying trade the world. Ship of it came out ensually, SWELLINGS DISAPPEAR

The other day I was on my way when you rub in LITTLE'S ORIENTAL ping and industry to approneb such other with a vie to a close cooperation across New York to take a train for to this end. The first significant step was Washington," he said, and I noticed BALM the appointment to the Board of Directors of the Harburg-Amerion Line of Herr von Gwinner, the managing director of the Deutsche Bank Un Salomonson, director of the Diskontogesellschaft; and Herr Huge Stinnes, the

Lloyd followed suit by electing

von

"The pain goes right away and the swel a lot of flags flying A good many of ling itself disappears with a few applica them seemed to be from link buildings. tions. It is utterly useless, to suffer f They all seemed patriotic for profit is useless to pay big doctor'à bille and For 1 But I didn't see any signs of picks then to find yourself no better b buildings, indicating that they serede. you can buy a bile of Norddeutsche

LITTLE'S ORIENTAL BALM fering any practical help to the nation and cure yourself Bale and certain.

la burdreds. of Cases LITTLE'S AVAILABLE ASSETS, 3100,000,000 ORIENTAL BATM has relieved and Boleshausen Degener, one of the except what they could profit from. directors of Krupps of Essen, to its Board

The talk turned to Mr. Ford's offer oured the so-called incurable swellings." SHIPBUILDING BARBOUR WORK IN HAND.

BLING AND HARD cen, of Directors. Herr Heineken, the man to the President and Secretary Daniels to for sellings of the joints, or limbe, for instance reviewing the shipbuilding ing director of the Norddeutscher Lloyd, Activity and harbour construction in Ger a director of the Deutsche Banks whilst turn over his factory his men and his brain or contusions, sprains, mony, states that the municipality of Paul Mankiewitz of the Deutsche Bank own time, without gain to make motor pains and aches,

Agents for Hongkong:- Besora S. WATSON & CO., LTD. Bremen is constructing at present the has joined the Board of the Norddeutscher boats or baby submarines far the fold to 15. 4d. per bottle.

Lloyd. As for Krupps and the Lloyd Government, and then be usually ne Westhafen, with two basins, capable of there has been a close association between marked accommodating sinually 1,000,000 tons.

ime. Both concerns took" And the can have my for some build- them Stettin, busy ing, and Hamburg, is completing the new pary in the foundation of the Deutsche money, took Government

harren begun in peace-time. The lanenrine Gesellschaft which owns the The extent of Mr. Ford's fortune is

∙new.

sum

that he would, and then turned his at-

For instanco, he could manufacture 3,000 motorcars a day, each equipped with bodies that would carry perhaps

ten men and could travel twenty-foutr hours a day; if necessary, at a fairly high speed,

merchant ship. Deutschland, not known. It is a low estimate, how- Steam Shipping Co. of Bremen, has taken built in Krupps' Germania wharf at Kiel, ever, for the interviewer whe has talked over during the war, six steamers that were Two ather steps have since been taken by to him many times to place his im being buile when war broke out and two the Hamburg Amerika Line to prepare for mediately available assets, cash bonds

ordering six now ones this year, besides. more new ones. The Kasmos Line, for the future; the one is the complete under and the like, at $100,000,000, and his which ten ships are being built, the Bremer standing as to the common working arrived Roland Line, and the Kontinental Reederei At with the Norddeutscher Lloyd, wld the total resources at perhaps five times that other is the extensive programme o of ship:

He did not continue on the topic of in Hamburg have increased their capital huilding, necessitating the creation of a for new shipbuilding The article. goes on new Hamburg shipbuilding yard, in which lending his money. He simply stated to say that the Hamburg-America Line is

is the great "Allgemeine Elektricitats Gestention to what he could do in a manu extraordinarily active, with regard to new sellschaft" has participated to a large shipbuilding. It has completed its largest American iner, the Bimarok, and is extent. There rannins no doubt that these facuring way for the President, and the building besides a new turbine ship, the steps point not only to a financial strength country

ening of the companies, but to Tirpis, of 32,000 gross registered tonnage. There are also in construction for the same policy for the fature and a systematic Company three 32,000 ton ships, nine cargo attempt to overcome or mitigate the very

five

serious consequences of the war. steamers, two or them 18,000 tons,

POSITION OF THE GREAT COMPANIES. sweller

passenger steamers, and, apart

Aut excellent comment on the situation from these, two commodious and elegant steamers of 17,000 tons for the Panama appears in the Frankfurter Seitung This Think what they could transport, 10 Canal traffic are being built by the Teck paper points out that as the two great the way of troops," he said,

in Grestemunde. shipping

the Homburg- Werft

companies, Jonburger Altogether the Hamburg-Amerika Line has Amerika and the Norddeutscher Lloyd He could also make a tremendons now 350,000 tons building, as against have now issued no report, for the third number of baby submarines little 260,000 tons at the end of 1913. The Nord year in succession, the public is in absolute undersea craft to be manned by a single deutscher Lloyd, too, shows strong buildingguorence as to their financial position Still individual, which would carry at their enterprise with the two fast steamers it is certain that after paying interest on the noses pills on poles," the pills to be Columbus and Hindenburg, of 35.000 tons share capital, placing money to the share high explosives, and the poles" to be each, built at Danzig

and the 10,000 ton share capital, placing money to the share long, protruding arrangements which steamers fuschen and Zeppelin and twelve sinking fund, writing off a proper amount would guarantee, safely to the operator other ships of 10,000 tons each a total of for depreciation, and mesting the expendi These, Mr Ford says, could destroy th ure on the ships and crews laid up Also the

p. In most powerful bate'cssip and, naturally, 240,000 tons of new shipping Hamburg-Sudamerikanische Dampfschiff-neutral, harbours, the finnuces of the ccm could wipe out any troopships by which fahrts Gesellschaft, the Levante Gesells panies will have suffered heavily by the an enemy night endeavour to land i

placed

end of the war; and though their position. chaft, and the Afrika Line have

easily and simply and at little more cost numerous and important orders for new may be assured during the war by the vaders. They could be turned out very ships The German shipbuilding yards support of the Government, they will want than an automobile, me have heen employed during the war with strengthening for the period immediately a tonnage of more than three quarters of after the war. It is interesting to find the million for the German mercantile marine, Frankfurter maintaining that the real

Herr Ballin too, has spoken emphati-

HIS BABY SUBMARINE PROJECT.

"I'll stake my reputation as a manu facturer on those little submarines, Mr. motive for the understanding between Ford said. And he admitted that con to siderable experimentation had been done scient with them in the last few years—

altogether successfully

re

cally several times about the great pre-shipping and industry is the parations of German shipping for the assure to the shipping companies future, and there is probably a consider-Freight not only for the period immediate able amount of truth at the bottom of the ly following the war but for the hard article quoted above, but it is impossibio years to come. Germany will need new that all these things could have been imports more than exports after the war; brought to pass as described. A very no great amount of tonnage will be

story is told moreover, by the quired for exports, except for petach and rrespondent of the Berliner Tageblatt, other mineral products. Most of her who gave a series of his impressions of exports are manufacured goods made from German cities in wartime. In the cource raw materials imported from abroad, and vivid account of the stagnation reign it is very questionable whether Germany ing in the two great ports of Hamburg will be in a positim to import rapidly ion enough large quantities of raw materials Bremen he described of decolation corded by the impression of Garima grey leviathan Imperator lying useless in will necessitate slow and cautious action

of

of

SOME WIRELESS SPEED RECORDS. Although the service of the Marcosi Wireless Telegraph Company of America between the United States and Japan was inaugurated only a short time ago, several speed records in sending and receiving messages have already boen made by

tors in the trans-Pacific stations.

-opera--

its dock, and then continued After for years to come, and the strictest economy An operator of Honolulu, recently sent wards one remembers that this is only one will have to be observed for the sake of the to the Marconi receiving station in Cali-

of 52,000 tona, forming but a very rate of oxchange. Besides, there will be forata, a distance of 2,372 miles, sixty- small

of new competition to be faced by German seven messages in one hour nud twenty 1,400,000 tons of shipping which is doomed

Naturally certain

bad

Proportion of the total aggregate of shipping after the war. So the shipping minutes. None of the messages was to similar idleness.

leness companies will have to depend on their shorter than fifteen words, and song of own capital resources for a long time, them contained forty words. The operator adopted to meet the deprsation, A War and therefore they have combined with, at the receiving station, copied the

the Marcont office Operators in of Gentan chipowners was both financial and industrial interests in messages without break on the the formed which embraced the whole German order to strengthen those resources also heart of the business section of Honoiulu

Hamburg-Ameriks Line has 360 shipping trade. I consisted of twelve The strolling interests in the Levant are now with the aid of repeaters, trans members, Herr Ballin being among them, obtained

Committee

while Dr. Greve, a director of the North line the Hamburg South America Line, mithing direct to both the United States rman Lloyd, was president Business the Kostube Gesellschaft the German East and Japan. Automatic transmission and woke up to the alarming shortage Africa Line, and in the Woermann Line reception of messages at a soœed of from essential raw materials. The In the last two ventures it has joined hands 80 to 100 words a minute will be brought roused, and in order to with Herr Huge Stinnes, ius instituting into use in the near future. Duplex trans

establishment of their new policy of industry and shipping mission equipment has been provided, the. telf ready to make working together, of which the election of tests made, and, when conditions warrant companies to Herr Stinnes to the board of the Ham the step, transmission at that speed in two new ships and burg-Amerika Line is only a consolidation directions simultaneously will be employed.

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