American lines announce the completion of arrangements to conduct joint passenger and cargo service between Hamburg and New York embracing Southampton, Cherbourg and Halifax.
Tt is not explained whether the arrangements are in any way connected with the severe cutting of rates by the leading German lines, especially in connexion with the immigrant trade to South America, which in the case of Germany alone increased from 36,000 to 115,000 in the past year—Reuter.
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