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Show I COMMERCIAL USE OF THE DANUBE IS BEING PROMOTED i.. i -uaj. J5K DISCUSSED if BIB 1 FOB THE SLUES the ; Thidmiral Troubridge Gives rs r . an Interview Setting Out n Difficulties Encountered. :i thi ne if f0n ntire Restoration of the '?a Traffiic Depends on Conic-" ditions in Magyar Area. bv'i Ik 5 ABOARD 8.' S. ALEXANDER, ON ,0VHE DANUBE, HUNGARY, Sept. 6. ins, 3y tho Associated Press.) Sir Ernest '!; humas Troubridge, :idmiral command-'.;ln,..g command-'.;ln,..g the Danube, for the interallied com-fjfr com-fjfr ksion, in an interview on his flagship 1 t- xlay, described the success which so . iiir has marked the efforts of the com-' com-' Mission "to promote the commercial l'ei.'.ic of the Danube'7 since juue 1, when J. ; mtrol of the river passed into its vas :wis. tie' The commission, which is temporary, ,lfL responsible to the Supreme Economic mncil at Paris. Its other members are r, ,ie Marquis de Bellow, captain of the Tench marine; Count Dcntici, un ,V2' alian colonel and Henry James, an ?s "uiericun. The prompt and effective Ken anucr in which transport facilities on Mr- "e Danube were restored by the com-at'I com-at'I mission is well known to all observers liJ ' events in the Balkans. How it was pfr complished is another story. yer:Adiniral Troubridge, wiio participated or. : the naval defense of Belgrade in h M: 1.3 and in the yveat Serbian retreat, oc credited with his colleagues wi.h (loin (lo-in c much toward reconstruction m (lis. utheasteru Kurope. tor two years esti was a representative of the British il a: ir cabinet at Satoniki, and came north tb: tli the advancing armies, reaching " sc.ls;radc on the day the Austrians tied. lp0,any Difficulties Met. cpre-" Karly in November of J91S," he my ad, "there was not a single steam-' less r-ip available J'or service on the estkmube. bo we had to begin at the are jry bcRinnini;. It was the aim of thaf.e Ausinans that all shipping should ly fk'apc till 'he river to safety beyond Jepcimn. Hut as the ships raced nurth-lattaard nurth-lattaard they were tired upon from the rifi. ores by the Jugo-Slav revolutionaries. ! a In a result, many of tho crews deserted anJ:d a number of ships were surren-tini surren-tini red or beached. This jjavo us a nucleus ond'r the reorganisation of service, id rc" livery diliiculty confronted us. We ,ppe': d to secure and organize new crews, 50g.pair machinery and landings. The inics hat! tu be moved and an immense 0f liiuie id' traffic awaited handling. Also ne:ere was a great shortage of coal. I) obtained some along the river, and ainU-cr from Sarajevo, bill the great bulk ;tl to be furnished by Ureal Britain. l'e S' .reo thousand tons were supplied regu-suUl. regu-suUl. d.v each mouth. Service had been re-l"a'j re-l"a'j :ned to Semliu, permitting connection -rtl th the railwav terminus to l'anehova 1" '-.A tn Xovi-Sati. 'on.l"As rapidly as possible steamers - 01 ri: put in operation up the Save and ttn the Danube. The Tavitaillement at';" d iucl supply of several countries ' & the movement of armies and refu-iS refu-iS l;s awaited this service. 'Lu nch Traffic Handled. 'cr-trr ' When the steamer service was ct ( lied over to the government at Bel-Mdo Bel-Mdo on July 1,' continued the ad-t ad-t tr.l -al. "we were handling commercial en'1:, ight at Belgrade at the rate of eon uu.( n it ions a year, and there was viii:' lilahle passenger and commercial :15 1 vice from Belgrade for an average rasf'ly distance of UiUO miles." oni!fl 'K. juiisdict ion of the commission bl,,; l'le'u Snlina, at the mouth of the . ' ev, ,'o 'oy ITm, in Bavaria. Steam-eiu Steam-eiu ply on various sections of the -river vcr in Suliuu tL) Paya. Navigation is Iota" lusMlile between Bayn, lit) miles .arin? th nf Budapest, to I'risbourg, a like mil Mance to the north. This section of ins'l stream controlled by the Magyar i br. "'u'-"'..hs, and is heavily mined. ;evi'f-i 'he Motion of the river from l'ris-, l'ris-, tl11' u'k to I'assaw in Bavaria is open, I the commission is now actively en-. en-. led in restoring traffic from Passaw Jvlll. Vim. The restoration of through fen' c "". great river highway there-..,,tiT there-..,,tiT ? awaits only the restoration of nor-.,t nor-.,t pi ''"'"i.'tii'iis in the Magyar area. H,ri'i'"" "'I'btioii to his controi of cominer- .7,111 ""n'l'ic Admiral Troubridge is in ", I ro"1" command of the allied naval Ijl,,,,; -'0 en the Danube, which embraces ".. tal of approximately thirty craft l.'.i't '''reach, Serbian. Jngo-Slav and ..i naniaTi, This force is almost a new ""iiiitii ''ion. the crews representing a dozen ,. iiins and the ships coming from manv f lioi'' r01"'S' Sl""c 11 '' 'Daem being prizes of id sr' ' |