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Shipping men the world over are keenly interested in the outcome of the International Conference-on Safety of Life at Si which met in London from early in April till the first week of June this year, and included representatives of no fewer than eighteen nations. From a shipping point of view, the field covered by the conference h been immense, and has taken in every conceivable matter that might even remotely reduce the incidence and the tragedy of those shipping disasters the danger of which, it seems, nothing that mankind can do will ever wholly eliminate. At the time the last mail to be received here left London (July 3), the official report of the confer ence had not been released, though it had been promised the public by June 80; but sufficient is known unofficially, though none the' less authentically, to make it certain that while there will be nothing of a revolutionary character, every phase of a vast subject has been tackled in an eminently practical fashion, due regard having obviously been paid to the economic, a8 well as the humanitarian, aspects of the questions involved. The telegrams which we published yesterday regarding the wonderful performance of the Norddeutscher Lloyd str. Bremen, in wresting the Blue Riband of the Atlantic from the famous Cun-order Mauretania after the honour had been Britain's for over two decades, is simply an ind tion of the tremendous strides that are being made in the art of shipbuilding..As construction methods and materials increase in effectiveness, so do size, speed and the general increase in shipping add to a hazard that constitutes a never-ending battle between the forces of nature and the efforts of Man. The conference which has just been concluded may be considered, as one of the necessary and inevitable efforts of Man, in sending his ships to sea, to reduce danger to a minimum and to strive
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