[CG]
The great ship-yards have developed a capacity for building steamships
of the largest class. The tonnage since 1881, when it had fallen to
914,000 tons, had increased only to 1,052,193 tons in 1900. By 1910-11,
it had reached 1,882,280 tons.[CH] The total mail subsidies average, in
round numbers, five million dollars a year, while the construction and
navigation bounties amount to three and a half million dollars
additional.
Practically every French vessel floating the French flag and engaged in
foreign trade either receives or has received subsidies, or bounties,
from the Government.[CI]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote BD: Meeker.]
[Footnote BE: Lindsay, vol. III.]
[Footnote BF: Rear-Admiral Alfred T. Mahan, "The Influence of Sea Power
upon History," pp. 105-107.]
[Footnote BG: Mahan, p. 73.]
[Footnote BH: Lindsay, vol. III.]
[Footnote BI: Prof. Achille Viallates, "How France Protects Her Merchant
Marine," in North American Review, vol. 184, 1907.]
[Footnote BJ: Lindsay, vol. III.]
[Footnote BK: Lindsay, vol. III, also Viallates.]
[Footnote BL: Viallates.]
[Footnote BM: Lindsay, vol. III, pp. 457-458.]
[Footnote BN: Viallates.]
[Footnote BO: Meeker. Also Wells, pp.
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