Show I 1 BOARD W WILL SELL GERMAN VESSELS I I I I I Thirty Ships Former Fornier Pride of Fleet to toBe toBe toBe Be Disposed Of or orBy Ity Uy Preme Washington Jan 2 Thirty Thirty former forme German passenger er ships seized when the United States entered the tho war var in including In- In eluding the Leviathan the largest ves see vessel ad sel afloat the Agamemnon A George c Washington and others which were the pride of oC the tho German merchant marine ma ma- rine rifle were sere offered for or sale Bale today b by bythe bythe the shipping boar board Prop b. b 0 C tho vessels h may mity be flied filed up to Jannary January January Jan Jan- uary nary 20 will bo be r received col only from American buyers and must include a pledge e to use the ships on lines designated designated by the board hoard U Ved tI An Transport Decision of or tho the board to otter offer tho the former Cormer German liners for tor or sale was sas determined de tc- principally by hy the tho cost of oC re reconditioning reconditioning reconditioning re- re conditioning them for or passenger er servIce service ice Chairman Payne Pane said Many Ian of oC the vessels were used b by tho the war de department do- do as transports both before and anil Jn after atler the armistice ant and the cost costor of or refitting them thorn for Cor passenger service has hos been estimated b by shipping board officials at approximately By Dy restricting tho the sale sule of oC the ships to interests and to permanent perma porma- neat nent service on designated lines linos the board expects to accomplish establishment establish establish- ment mont of ot a n proposed passenger service program to all parts of or the tho world along the same lines line that would have o been een followed had the board boar Itself put the liners into the time service High The Thc vessels of the tho first class passenger passenger pas pas- cr type offered for lor or sale salo are aro Lev Los Agamemnon Mount lount V Vernon Von Steuben Geor George c Washington Martha Washington Austrian America Amer mtr iner- iner lea ica Aeolus Huron Princess Matolka Pocahontas Callao Moccasin Mecca Mocca sin Black Arrow an and Otsego Fourteen Fourteen Four lour teen others of or the tIme Intermediate typo type adapted for lor or steerage and car cargo o In Including including in- in eluding tho the President Grant An- An Mercury and Amphion also are arc offered to buyers The Time ships are arc to be turned over o to tho the successful bidder on payment lament of ot 2 23 per cent of oC the lie purchase price and satisfactory fulfillment o of other terms of ot sale tale Such Huch vessels an nt arc not sold oitI soldat at this time will be bo used by the board In passenger e until the tho whole holo of ot the government fleet Cleel has passed into private hands r I I |