Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-06
CHAIRMAN HURLEY SAYS
CARGO SHIPPING AMPLE
Fruucc md Britain In No Condition to
Utilizo RAW Materials Mt
This Time.

LONDON, January 4-(SpeclaD.-
There will be no shortage OF cargo
tonnage for supplying world needs
during tho first half of 1919. in the
opinion OF Edward N. Hurley, chairman
OF The United States Shipping Board.
l. Is passenger space for transporting;
troops home :S,t occupying a'tcI-
I'm - the allied shipping Co:..r,.iers
n" na.."H can have as mucE OF that az
II wants now.
Af:cr comforting with indIs,.!a. ana
Shipping heads la England and Er.nce
anu .'" 't =, lar, part Of :: t'a'::-
~ stated TIA II would tade at ic;,:t
BLK m.ni!.s -, .iy more. fo- FIN g.
dma LinEinhd TO 'cn.bilitnte their in
nustries to tho point where large
needed. ''
II is pointed out that il would be
AMI 'e SIS 10 send Industrial machinery
a. - raw materials to France until her
dcsiroEeG factory buildings arc made
'c.GF tc receive them.
.,s n,im"sl the entire British Industrial
ISS.cl now Is a huge munitions pro
uut.iof machine virtually idle. Until IL
-, - tnnsi ofmed to It's prewnr state. raw
,l"terlals would be burden II will
o' necessary to import some machinery
i"r inc transformations but not enough
seriously TO tax cargo spncc for ,In
'S * sever months. Mr.. Hurley believes.
DISHpnUrr
vessels in German ports have been fhn
center OF most of the allied shipnin,,
ui,seusslons on this side for weeks
americans want all OF them tb.v 60
get to send home. roughly I'm oon
men, as soon possible EnVl,, ~
odnst send home to Canada about 3O1
Zc,ln 10 "1s' da. about 100000: To New
EcaIhnd; 1000 or more. and bring tn
r.nelanh thousands from Mcsoputnn,ia
!dies'ihc ana other places ObvIousiy
. ,nu n, y, problem is tho greatest
Inn. . l,... =.
Tor Snips. Americans generally havn in
sisted that tho United States. with less
Ian Two years OF war, is IN a better
position to assimilato its rntirnin,-
troops Than is England, whose in,
disrupted. i'oi
Win The rapid increase in American
HhaEc' u tx expected that more than
I" I,"r cent OF the American forccs Vii
Io hom" In American ships. 1t is tho
.b5n,i 90 american army officers ana
i,'pilnS interests that as many az nos
s!"t. OF the balance be carried home ira
Imam passenger vessels thus reic,s
iarEe number OF British bottoms.
mere; mat the troops he Sent howe NJ,
rapidly as they were brought over hc.
-, ",.oa ihSistent 1t will take more ships
over r tn..i nack than 10 bring them
- ineE were brought over under
'.e stress OF necessity and, in some In
i, sn, ships were loaded TO tho ex-
ca,,scd -, oiiS5oopfniort. Loss Of tonnage
1854 u! iiShter loading. however yyjlI
pai,iaIiy be made up by greater spech
co mr. vessels will not be compelled to
c TIirnHln I" convoy speed and the
cnin,nation OF zig zaEging viii .a wo
much time. VIII save
w ME a great many i.en arc being
co.'s, no'ie no" and the number will
~ increase. 1t il not believed
.ne r.al homcward movement will he
Numaiusuraicd before February l.
nm,'htr then II VIII be on the sug-
scstch basis OF 300, 200 n month denen5.
Almost entirely upon decisions Of The
al!lcd shipping conferences. which be-
gan soon after the ar,niatice was
signed. 60