Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 4 | British Reports on Sinkings at Fault

BRITISH REPORTS OH SINKINGS AT FAULT William Denman Calls Loss cf 6,000,000 Tons in 1918 "Hopeful Estimate." i WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. William Denman. Den-man. former chairman of the shipping board, gave 6.000.000 tons as a "hopeful 1 estimate" of allied shipping losses this i year in testifying today before the senate 1 commerce committee. lie said an cstl-' cstl-' mate of 7,0t'0,000 tons production during i the year was a "scientific dream." j Mr. Denman said that nothing could : be learned from British official reports of i shipping sunk, because they included only I British vessels and only a part of the ! lOSS tO Shipping Was due tO Sllbncirln.. or mines. Joseph A. Sloane, president and majority major-ity stockholder of the Anacovtes Shipbuilding Ship-building company, told the committee that clumges In plant. Indecision of government gov-ernment inspectors and lumber shorta-o were seriously delaying woorlon ship construction con-struction at his yard and in other Pacific coast plants. A letter was put in evidence showing that the shipping board some time mo took over the contracts of the Slo-ine Shipbuilding corporation, which sublet the contracts on which the Vnacort w yard i working, and that thr honnV representative has informed Sloane n,V the Anacortes company has been inct ",'l with the Sloane company and th,i "hil services no longer are needed. Sloan,, s 1 1,1 he had acquiesced In the tilling tempo lt-lly rather than stop work on the I vc. 4