The importance of utilising any available cargo space in troopships for imports into this country is appreciated, and substantial amounts of cargo are lifted.
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If many troops go to a trouble spot and disembark from a landing craft ortroopship, conditions may not be improved.
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Troopships have, for the last few years, been taken out of service in turn for refitting to post-war standards.
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Some are coming into service, and we hope to have all troopships on this new standard within the next two or three years.
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This delay has been due to mechanical faults which developed in two troopships.
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The mail concerned was restricted to letters from or due for delivery to passengers in troopships.
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Manufacturers are perfectly free to supply pipes for sale on board troopships.
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I am glad to say that all other troopships have been brought up to post-war standards of comfort by extensive internal modification.
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There need be no accumulation of troops until the troopships meet at sea at a pre-arranged point.
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In the course of the last three days, 16,000 men have left and 20 more troopships are loading up.
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I have received many letters about the overcrowded conditions on troopships and the abominable stench which exists in tropical waters.
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It was a first-class passenger ship, and was altered first to atroopshipand then into a cargo ship.
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More troops have to be brought home than are sent outward, so that outward bound troopships cannot all be filled with troops to capacity.
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The shortage of troopships, transport costs and other things probably made it administratively difficult to make the change, but this is not so now.
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I was on a most importanttroopshipwhich was about to sail.
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