Edinburgh, June 20.
No more luxury ships, no more Lusitanias or Aquitanias to be built. Such is the fiat that has gone forth from the chairman.of the White Star Company, the originators of the mammoth Atlantic steamships. But the statement is merely the reflexion of the unexpressed sentiment prevalent among the great steamship companies.
Does this portend that the building of ships of intermediate class is to. continue on post-war scale? A fear has arisen that here also we have reached the crest of the wave of prosperity in shipbuilding, and are already drifting into the backwash of dullness, with its inseparable accompaniment for the workers of short time and unemployment. This pessimistic view is to Some extent supported by the action of leading shipping companies in regard to the building duplicates of vessels just complet:
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