the ruins accumulated by the German "In reference, not to all purchases-as "We will exact from Germany the restitution of such part of the material taken away from us as can be recovered. But besides that restitution we must bear in mind that speed is a primary condition in the reconstruction of France, and that America, on account of her immense capacities for production, ought to give us the first help. We need ships, chartered ships as well as ships transferred to our flag; the speedy reconstruction of the country is strictly depending on the revival of our mercantile fleet.' DROPS IN COMMODITY PRICES With the readjustments that set in at once when the war ended, commodity prices began to change-in general, to decline slightly. 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AS TO SHIPPING RESOURCES AFTER THE "U"-BOAT DESTRUCTION Now that the world-war is over, a writer in The Financial World has found it is interesting "to cast up accounts of losses as the result of the U-boat sinkings and the prospects in the peace era." U-boats destroyed, he finds, nearly 15,000,000 tons of shipping, or, to quote the British Admiralty's trustworthy figures, 14,825,635 tons gross down to September 30, 1918. This loss was almost exactly one-third of the steam tonnage in existence when the war broke out in 1914. The toll of destruction was greater than the combined fleets in the merchant-marine service of the United States, Norway, France, Japan, Italy, Sweden, and Austria in 1914. The world, however, "did not stand gaping at this destruction and do nothing to offset it." Since the war began the shipyards of the world have been the busiest kinds of places, night and day, and hence shipbuilders "can now contemplate their work with something like pride as they have by herculean efforts reduced the net loss to something like 6,000,000 tons, and for the five months just past have delivered more tonnage than has been destroyed in that time." The writer adds: "There will in that period be a greater supply of available labor to do the work than during the war, as the fighting armies will be able to furnish hundreds of thousands of men as ship-workers. That year and a half will be a precious period, however, and it ought to be a boom period in the trade, with high ocean rates, because the governments at war will not be able to return to peace routes of trade all the ships they have commandeered for war as there are armies to send home from distant points, such as France to India, the Holy Land to England, France to England, France to Australia and Canada, and France to the United States. "It is this great scarcity of shipping which has made the astute English shipping interests long to get back their vessels which are controlled now by the International Mercantile Marine Corporation, and for which the English have made a very tempting offer which is now before the American company. Our shipyards are turning out perhaps as great, if not greater, tonnage than England, and many considerations may make it wise to accept the English offer. 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