6 JULY 1918, Page 9

The magnitude of America's effort to build ships for transporting

and feeding her armies is becoming apparent. In June the American yards produced 180,000 tons of new shipping. Our own yards in June turned out only 134,000 tons of shipping, as compared with 197,000 tons in May. To celebrate Independence Day, the American yards were to launch on Thursday no fewer than a hundred merchant- men, fourteen warships, and a dozen submarine chasers. Now that the vast steel industry of America is being organized for the pro- duction of standard ships, there is no limit to the amount of shipping that America can build. All doubt as to America's power to main- tain a great Army in Europe is thus removed, for the ' U '-boats have failed to stop the troopships.