Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-22 | Page 7 | Plain Cargo Ships Needed by England

i PLAIN CARGO SHIPS "I NEEDED BY ENGLAND I LONDON. Jan. 22, 3:3" a. m. The Times today says it understands instructions instruc-tions have been given to several shipyards ship-yards to cease work- now in progress on high-class liners and divert the labor to the building of plain cargo ships. "If the daily toll of losses teaches one-lesson." one-lesson." says the Times, in approving the decision, "clearly it is that the need of new cargo ships is very great. When the shipbuilding of the country Is properly mobilized, as it Is now being organized, the new production within a few months i should be absolutely irresistible. But this i result will not be achieved wit bout im- I mense effort and some interference with private plans."