Hamburg Gets Business Back
Great Harbor Projects Under Way. Ten Years Will See Another German Fleet. February 15 1923 HAROLD NORMAN DENNY
Hamburg Gets Business Back
HAROLD NORMAN DENNY
IN TEN years’ time Germany will have as great a merchant fleet as she had before the war. Though she has been stripped of all the great ships that carried her goods into every corner of the world, Germany is rebuilding her commerce on a sound foundation and with determined hope, because we here realize that world trade is essential tothe life of our country.” This was the utterance of a German shipping official, according to Harold Norman Denny, writing for The New York Times. The observation was made during a discussion of Hamburg’s stupendous harbor and the projects that are already under way to enlarge that port. Commenting on this statement, Mr. Denny remarks:
Canadian Interests Sacrificed
Contract Taken Away From Us and Gicen to German Interests
A WHITER in Canada (London) opens up what it terms a case of “bureaucratic ineptitude” by which Canada lost a promising shipping enterprise. That the contract for refitting a fleet of interned German ships should have been taken away from a Canadian concern and given to German interests provides ample justification for a protest. The story is reprinted as it suggests that the Canadian Government must be prepared to watch and fight for our interests overseas. Canada says :
The apparent sacrifice by the British Ministry of Shipping of the interests of Canada and a Canadian shipping enterprise has been disclosed by the information just made public that the contract for the repair of some forty German vessels interned in South American waters has been granted to German interests.