Excerpt from The Review of Reviews: August, 1910 They would take another route to that followed generally by vessels on the homeward journey. And would go through the. Straits of Magellan until the completion of the Panama route, which would then be used, and would call at two American ports, two Canadian ports one Welsh port, and two or three English ports, and then complete the trip in at least ten days less than the present schedule time. As a reason for support, the agency points out that the project merits Government assistance because of its national character, and suggests that the leading rival of Australia - the Argentine Republic - subs1 dises steamship services heavily Seeing that it is probable that in a few \ears the Argentine will be competing with Australia in most of hei products, and that that country is only half the distance from England that Australia is, the agency arrives at the conclusion that the establishment of a service such as this would turn the balance of trade in Aus tralia's favour The form in which the help is to be given is put under three different suggestions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.