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10th July

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SEABORNE TRADE IN THE ignoring economic laws

GREAT WAR.

THE ECONOMIC DUEL

BY ARCHIBALD HURD IN THE

"DAILY TELEURSTIL"}

For

But the occasion was exceptional. To argue from such au experience that shipping was nationalised, in Box real scrise, is la iniuge inn misu-cof langan All that lasted was that thes ane shipowners who had built, mangeıl and controlled their feets in penco pooled their resources, certain civil servants laring employed

yel to ste than ellect was given to their The Great War fills a canvas so large policy, and all considerations of profit and

Lus were ignored. that we cannot comprehend its signitie

struggled on, and at the ance, and the picture is rendered

low of 1916, when the war was on the fused by individui experiences

threshold of its last and most lest erata generalisations which. inevitaldy,

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it is in

is in this manner that Mr. Payle drawn which in accurate. For these reasons the writing by summarises our position: The recal for And energy and four 1918 bore ample witness to the of the four contemporaries

will lear

14፡ ነገ ጊ with which the operations of batt

Year of coalfiet

Bat British shipping has been adapted to the con- difficult. the test of time is extremely that task is, nesertheless te, & bayle has

ditions being attempts in which British and neutral shipping

+f, war, and the curageous manner under oficial auspices, and jast completed the second volume of bushither to face the greatly increased risks

rs, Hebs with evilent

Cradle For the monent the suburino

Serious

ALDATIN LaseЯ

217

from

wassery

ind

"wis the

fisteaborne Conaterres,) sincerity endeavoured to stand back frin campaign had failed: the crowded canvas and, with the aid of a cumulative effect of the less yest sied mass of aflicial documents and statistics milion, the ratio of Inss when compared with the set down the placysl LY

ILE trath as it emerges, on his cussionstess, Ingages under the cargoes carril.". As that endeavour he has succcell conspin against this, our exchanges were falling, and

very

serious financial ously, as this second volume proves,

insurable distans position was with. Turning they to the effect of our own the eurmy. Mr Payi isde- ensures against cisive but the

gained. Gernuan

It takes up the story in the spring of 1915 when the German Government Retinitely committed itself to an attack on these sixit

by

SELE SATIS

enumerce of the Fafeute Power of just submarines had

withh

a

brief supplies compared restriction of

of submarines, and covers &

for a moment with the under two years.

It ghes

-feet of the Alligi blockade upay the Central anives of the seunani pration of tulipwet Up to Easter, 1915 the available groups of belligerent vers in the winter of 1918. The author.

r is dispassionate; he

efferaselt 1 mwing th

except

supplies had maintained the population but with the impossibility of the artificial fertilisers mon which

of war; and his muter is one of thermay swimằn, the vinys there the extreme sobriety. He igures,

in su ine as his narrative ends otherwise began to fall off and the cheets of a block; reference to the course of un val operations of rule became cumulative, the merchant sauce. He has striven with complete, success to arrange and set out clarly the enormous mass of Burts at his command; me! such conclusions as he riruws are megye deductions from statistics.

WAE ON TRADE BY SEA.

in the spring of 19 the attack upon seaborta Commerce by German surface riders had failed utterly. It had caused no appreciable diminution in the mass of our carrying tonnage: and, save for a tour

porary ફેકેમાંkration in the Bay of Bengal,

it had never affected the flow of trade Simultaneously with this failure, it bud become evident that neither side would pe for a rapid military decision. In this state of afairs the submarine campaign was born. it is clear the German Giovent- To Mr. Phyle it ment's decision was an incident, though n important on in the movement of both groups towards the use of the economic weapons

para-

Great as was the difference between the methods pursued by the belligerent groups, both worn now attempting to lyso commerce, direct or indirect, with the

Overshadowed by enemy countries, the clash of arms, and brought into public notice only by a few exceptional inciilents, the silent progress of economic pressure assumed for both sides an over-increasing importance in the conduct of the war. More

and more atral interests becau Aubservient to the development of the conflict.

The reonomie dusi, now began. It was far more men by both parties towards economic exhaustion time a real conflict. did succe, by agreements with neutral Powers,

wers, by Orders in Council, by bunkering regulations very firman source of sup and by “black lists," in casting

oft

phy they, on the other hand, succeeded in a daugyrous inroad into our vital servies, but at a great sacrifice, as events

ir own proved, of their

and economic pasitical

of either side interests. But the incasa incas

withi the stupendous operations of belligerent nations, and it is with these That this history specifically deals.

The problem facing us was an embar

in. th early put of 1915 an quilibrio had been established in British by the imminution in the volume F trade to be carried, but the balance was

seem punyi contain laws upon

“dangerously mistable. When the year

the sival of trade on the opetal hand, and the diminution in cetivo varry- ing power on the other had promiseel an which was excess of demand over ghts to an reflected in a Tapud rise of altogether a mornal level, and already

Shoul Aegis to enhee us grave concrŢU,"

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we be able to face this situation, and re- medy sulliciently to give our measures against the enemy time to develop their fail effect. !-

AN EMBARRASSING, PROBLEM. The years The and His are filled with our effort do what a good many Pessimists throught might prove impossible. The difficulties were prodigious. In the first place. port congestion was advancing steadily, as, under the influence of the *W* 9: Admiralty measures, shipping

on essential trade routes; in the second, the withdrawal eventail tornage for war purposes-and the demands of the

the War Admiralty and

Office wero in the enormous-rose uninterruptedly third, the recruiting of our armies, and their requiren ents when raised and sent abroad, attacked our shipbuilding i

giniustries and

rafa

our

ans of adjusting the balance of losses of toonige at seu by withdrawing labor from the slipyards d

Allies were making fourtis, our Citizen legs; and in the heavier and heavier calls upon our luances and our maritime 18 urees, for we bud to

plare ships as well as gos dis nt the displ of Pane manneris, End alsa Busin. The

these difliculties were faced

is a wonderful record of national achiev

derrated ment. The State did intervene, and special bodies to deal with the situation but the personnel of the committees and departaunts crental was drawn from the and recaptile classes. Or.sal- vation was

ines and org by men

with a commercial training. the hour must be assigned.

them

It has sometimes been claimed, noe parti. cularly by Socialists, that we did in fact nationalist industry, and especially shipping during the war. What really happened The Government realised that war had economic lawa; the only profit to was victory. So all the leaders

bo

of i

A wero naked to place their know-

Jera

ledge, experience, and organisations at the disposal of the State. With instinctive patriotism they threw themselves into the work. At the Ministry of Shipping, under Sir Joseph-now LordMaclay, the princi pal shipowners co-operated for the one cul, well knowing, all the time, that they were

*Seaborns Trade (Official History of the War) Yol. II., from the opening of the Sub- marina Campaign to the appointment of thin Shipping Controller, John Murray,

ls. net

Mr. Fayle in these volumes, is making a notable contribution to the history of a war which, in the range of its operations and in its implications, was unlike any war which had hitherto been fought. It's hus had to cover entirely new ground; and in his second volume he has presential an im pressive picture of the economic factors which were mobilised for the struggle.

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