Ocean Shipping D.B. Ellis M. Bigelow May 15, Dear Doug, and Insurance Browning 1947 Received your telegram of the 14th replying to date. Believe it would be a good idea to wire ment comes in if it has suffered and extensive mine of us when damage. that this Val same shipdoes not sail on the America services of different have much longer or the Cherbourg We may want to in June Europe. He expects 6th. investigate thoroughly steamship companies after this last can be reasonably confident that in this does not frequently occur. Before starting the your suggestions on Will not the investigation the following insurance company, in the dramatic shipping the help of someone in New York, lines servicing Antwerp, then on have all the suggestions shipping close to FN. a port other facts to where we be view its of information. get this whipping very helpful interests, to have give us Believe for the sake or if necessary with appraisal on shipping lines servicing other It may be very difficult and than Antwerp, but at least we assist.us may episode, Believe we annals a mess like it would points: a thorough appraisal of the service lines? of completeness we should with their help, ports reasonably practical to use to | in making obtain this a decision. reliably and Do imshould you detailed have type Since this matter is to bring guns into a to icing in the on the fire, wonder why we find it necessary Canadian port. There is more delay subject winter to be only reason that could the consider time. thancing I ports Canadian Pacific connections seem can see. In other words, the appraisal at this end as the other well as end, Another point brought up by this episode relates of closely following shipments across the ocean. not be possible unless your experience indicates reasonably of | considerable length of time which on to the feasibility It probably would that there is a elapses between depar- ture at Antwerp and arrival in Canada. If the length of the trip is reasonably similar within the matter of a week, or at the most two, we could then immediately request information when arrival is