Recent telegrams from America have shown the alarm felt by 2|- number of shipping men there lest the Hamburg-Amerika Line, in a resuscitated condition, should be able to play the role of peaceful absorber once American ships have started a service to Germany. But while we have been watching these movements with considerable interest, " good Geal of important though rather silent work has been done by the great British shipping companies, and already they have made great strides in capturing the carrying business of central Europe. The Ellerman and Holt lines are reported to have concluded an agreement with the North-German Lloyd and the Hamburg-Amerika companies for the inauguration of a monthly service between Hamburg and Bremerhaven and the Far East, while the Cunard, P. & O. and British India lines are also establishing other services from Germany. As indicating the enterprise at the back of the Cunard movement, it is stated that the company has purchased a very large hotel at Bremen, to be conducted in connexion with their passenger services. A writer in the "Pall Mall Gazette" draws attention to a very interesting feature of the case, that two of the bitterest competitors of former days are now going to act as agents for British companies in German ports,
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