Paris, Jane 25.
Mev Stresemarn's speech in the! Reichstag yesterday (rei; peech by AI. Poincaré stances of alleged Germany) leaves the majority Political opinion unconvinced and the I gulf between the French and the German intertations of Locarno remains. unged. France holds thst Lo-
Ab dramatic wary of the wasting acilvtion of a Noewopian ahipbull by the above decision "The the cums a Flat in the feat nett" us fellow From obscurity to mill and] fron million te banque ts the record of Chyler "Monte, imbe came to the United Statee 1 earn was a free contract involvinx no obligation (o modify the Treaty of Versailles, any softening which remains, inher opinion, the xiit of the Allies, only be conceded to Germany for a zounmercial Agreement Lapsing Berlin, June 24, 1015, Gaim st eoonercnim, fr riv, shines planta, contracts prot His foatare'in the storys an Row sheds setlons ette of is Mra in the Intereats of the ba Tupt and sous ie recover through The. channels' of International dey lih Customs Tariff before the fend of tie year ead Germany re-
Tuses to prolong the existing ayree-Jomney some of the millions from] west the United States Shipping Board. rite the A bring review of the vare la] that Hannevig foresaw ihe great] need of ships required (0 replace the tonnage destroyed by the submarine warfare, He yeulixed also that the United States was the hive to establish yards for the construetion of tonnage, already. beyinni to outstrip the snuply. saw} Ne that a serious shortage of tonnage would soon become acute, A shortage which the wa tions themselves could not make up. The building of " ships! by the neutrals, among which ati that time was the United—States, must, he decided, be pushed to the the date of the ensetme: wh Customs Tavitt, Te is emphasized here that there Wil Lo no trade war. The Franco:
German steel Jot affected hi, June 28.—The Chamber of Deputies towtay, by 379 votes to 145, passed the Army Reorganization Bill, enabling, infer eria, a veduction in the pes il The Initial Venture for placing orcers for two shiba with the Baltimore Drydock Com pany he continued to reinvest the profits he made in further shipbuild-ug, beside inducing other Norwefinn capital to do the same, Soon six contracts were placed with the American Shipbuilding Company, Detroit, Followed by a number with the Chester Shipbuilding Company, enabling. this concern to extend its) yards at a time when Ameri eupital was not obtainable for Hamnevig, with his wu mean as well as other Norwegian capital entrusted to him, continued pla contracts with the American Ship building Company, Bethlehem Steer Company, Baltimore Drydock and Shipbuilding Company,—Manitowoe:
Scott Iron Works and' the Great! Lakes Engineering Company. He was the first foreigner who to any; Jorge extent laced contracts for ships with American yards, When the entrance of the United States into the war made ships and yards of the utmost importance, the American Government was, by von of Hannovig's activities, enabled take over ships and yards already! completed, unde" construction—or contracted for, which it would other-wire have had to bub from the nyound up. From the _heginning of the war Hannevig ard his com: panies are said to have Fendiness to ce-operate ith the Amer ernment in the emerge. contevl, Compensation for this ommandectingg wax to be teri ined and paid at a later date.
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