Show wy IN 1914 toffa AND TOD 11 with the reappearance of lloyd s register of shipping free from the a restraints of censorship after lite KW lapse of five ears the aw ual world receives a number of distine surprises one of these Is that A in spite of the war and of the vw f rine and W notwithstanding i the tem horary a and amyy partial interruption w ev of a in some countries alff tae tonnage hayw in jane 2 1919 was 2 2 gross tons greater 7 than it was in 7 june 1914 2 in other words not only was jt abst ax possible st w for the ff afy ship yards of the world abw to replace awn durl nIi w the war losses of le 7 tons but lyv they were if able to increase the pre war fleet by 2 iway tons of course f this Is not to say that the world tw a tonnage today Is as large abw as it wy would y have been had ff there w been ef no f war isay lloyd s es dimate is that under normal y bondt eions aye the worlds steam tonnage fea to day would Vt Say have been jaw 55 7 gross or 7 tons greater than it Is another v cw most significant af feature yh of the lloyd y summary Is that f V which y shows the jaff present rank of the pria cipal Ay shipping wy nations and the ga ins and alwy losses in their 7 respective fleets r during ff the war the tonnage a aw under the law american a flag at the wy time these statistics wv were compiled june w 1919 twya did not mf threaten the aradi dional british af supremacy ag yg the fig ures waw do show however that the pre sent day british tonnage of ag ay gross iy tons forms but ja per cent v of the f awa s a tonnage as against adf more than 42 per cent five S years aw ago great britain a suffered net losses during the bwy war of ff 2 W gross tons aw on the other hand the present american tonnage of 9 gross tons aw makes zw iy ay up for 24 per cent of the worlds carrying affia cabael ty as against approximately per before w the w war aw the enormous increase in the am 2 shipping overshadows all oth bwy developments rwei rw yi in the fw world a ship W the mcw 9 wy gross tons of 7 going vessels a credited iw to the states wy in june yz 1919 aas 7 7 7 tont greater WW than in june raw this increase Is efy per cent five 7 years and 7 aw has afy never iw been ap aves in the history of ff fV modern ay mw even this increase af yaw will dwarfed wa however avny it the present wf which wy calls iv for 16 W 7 tons of steam owr vessels by wy tl e g of ff 1920 in completed lf |