Partial Revival of Old Acti The partial revival of German industry, and, more especially, the increasing shipments of food' to Central Europe by the United' States, have restored to Hamburg a little of its former activity, a "Daily News" correspondent It is no longer the dead and! desolate city it yas 2 year ago.
Ships come and go in slow increasing numbers, but the trad monopolized by American, Brit. Dutch, and Scandinavian companies.
In my tour of the docks and shipyards I saw very few German vessels, except those which are being' built in the faint hope, as one of; the officials expressed it to me, that the tide of shipping prosperity will not have passed entirely before "riy of the new boats are ready.
Last month 2 American ships entered the port. They carried for the most part grain, flour, lard, beans, and certain raw materials, including food stores to be distributed by the American Relief Mission over the whole of'; Central Europe, and considerable quantities of grain and floor purchased by Czecho-Slovakia.
While this food traffic has brought back just a suggestion of 1 burg's former prosperity, it is creasing the financial difficulties of; the country.
The general testimony that imports largely exceed exports is @bundantly confirmed at Hamburg. Whereas 60,000 rail waggons a year were dealt with on the dock piers before the war, the number in recent months has not been at the rate of more than one-sixth of this total.
The food ships return with: very small cargoes of exports, conting chiefly of machinery, glass-are, salt, chemicals, dyes, andi Shipbuilding is reviving, and would be better but for the shortage of coal and! raw materials. 1; was told that most of the firms in the other shipbuilding centres, as
orders—for Holland and Scandiwell as in Hamburg, have plenty of navia, as well as for Germany—but they cannot execute them quickly.
The Hamburg-Amerika is again working in close conjunction with its former American ally, the Har-timon Line, which is sending American coal to Hamburg to hasten the construction and repair of ships in which it is interested.
For tHe Attirs.
Outside the Blohm and Foss yards I passed under the towering
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