New-York tribune., 1920-10-07
director of
Hamburg Line
For Ship Trust
Pooling Building Facilities
Would Restore Germany
TO Pre-War Sea Power. He
Is Quoted as Asserting
Saws Means Are at Hand
..Eutente Has No Interest i'm
Preventing Growth of the
Teuton Marine" HE States

A colossal trust to restore Germany
- hsr old maritime power is the plan
.svanced by "director Of the Ham
hvrv-American Liz in an interview
,ublished in the A d. c. OF Madrid.
The director, who is not named, is
described as "a pupil Of Ballin, who
artered the Office of the company
uben scarcely eighteen. He is
voung man with the whole of his
head shaven down to the nape of his
neck-all except his eyebrows, which
therefore stand out blacker and more
in evidence.
"You want TO know our plans and
how we look at the future" he is
quoted as saying. 1T is true that
Germany has lost all her seagoing
SHIPS through the peace treaty and
that the traffic IS passing into Ameri-
can and English hands, more to the
arst than to the second. Our indus
,ry is dependent uron foreign ton
mage"
But this, the director indicates, is
only very temporary condition. 81
an convinced he says, that it will
last a very short time-five years at
least, ten years at most. 1t is neces-
sary to find the means of returning
to the situation, and, being. neces-
ssry, the means VIII be found. Better
said: We have the means already.
There is only wanting the opportu-
nifty tc place them in action"
Trust to Restore Sea Power
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''ii@ '"s " Coi'cetC OF al the inter
sn,er;csr trns- ~'hicb ;s So 9a'sU u tlte
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essse ther IN nerfect ao,.oo,,,n,,t o,'0' ~,
arnears bur ~ the C.er,,,a,, So1.o
Which consists in that a1 foroos .'re a,s
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b,,s;ress and ~ tbo i,dne+~,. - ~
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orires ,or it's develnnnent Tba oo,-
eer, o. III The German Sbinbni1Gors
,onif re-,,'. f, rl,o io.ri,.e, ,oi.l+ba- as
an .1e different can,4als in one onlv
for the racon.truc+icn of What bas
aeen ros-
"F.r tha- arf vo fnd that ,yo b.ra
&c e''.' ''i'u el@' we nave
a. ps pus also
,....... ma pecn eA-
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= ~ . l ma 0'oi,
"~"- ''v"" 40 CON meEcldi
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,..9-i ,...''.' 60 D'''i o. .ne pc ol One
'".7i '~-'~ 80 ey..' III ue1eu IN lh3ee
.,. O.'s 'u'.i '''S I"@I' /. IS not
-o'i ',''9i" 10 mimi tnau 'he tiiNe
cou.' De fea-ecH one-ha1 ior cargo
uo'er1nent iaros IN iian
"The concert Of shipbuilders would
acquire from the state ownership OF
all building establishments which, to-
eether with tine private enterprises.
would serve for the construction Of
.niee of 'o1s lz ,es OF sn'PS' ADoNe an
Is Aeeess''' 10 1"'.lSh d ne" J.! pc
u Sn.-' "Nleh coelo De buil' III d series
o' pieces man ac'0rcd III "otNSnop9
wa % ierMef-N h.aoe caililoh7 ana
oomns. hrugus could mani /, "c, Lure Orl
bnes OF specal model and plates 1or
the hui.s he clterent pieces "ould
be assembled and put together IN the
shlpyards.'
Although the ma aNimum output OF the
German yards has been figured at 'oV,-
900 gross tons year for the present,
lhe hamburg director thlnNS