Mr. C. A. Whitlock, genera) agent in Vancouver "for the Cunard, Anchor and Anchor-Donaldson lines, has expressed the view that the trans-Pacific passenger service out of Vancouver of the Cunard Steamship Line, to be operated in conjunction with the Canadian National Railways, would not be begun this year.
The reason that there is little hope that Cunzrd boats will be running out of Vancouver for some months yet, following the announcement of the arrangement between the line and the Govern ment railways, is that the company is barely able to keep up with the tremendous business developed on the Atlantic since the war. The company expected to have 13 new steamers in commission in 1920, but the programme had not worked out as expected, owing to the shortage of material and industrial troubles in the United Kingdom.
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