BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE.
SUPREMACY THREATENED
AMERICA’S' DETERMINATION. [INDEPENDENT PRESS CABLE.] LONDON, July 29. The “Morning Post” declares that tho opening of the Panama Canal will signalise a. attack by the United States upon the- supremacy, of the British mercantile marine, and the endowment of American trade to anv. from British markets with an immense advantage. •■The prosperity that is due to our control of the sea-carrying trade,” adds the paper, “will bo challenged bv -a strong, 'enterprising nation, inexorably determined to recover an industry lost in the Avar of 1812-” J.t is stated that in vieAV of the situation provision is being made by the Admiralty for stationing an adequate cruiser squadron in the West Indies.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3598, 10 August 1912, Page 8
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116BRITISH MERCANTILE MARINE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3598, 10 August 1912, Page 8
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