Immediate and decisive action, I learn, is now likely to be taken to safeguard the British "ati-red" shipping routes in the Pacific, endangered. by foreign subsidised competition. says the correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph."
Subject to the necessary Parliamentary approval, two large, high-speed liners will be built for the Canadian-Australian service.
They will be equal, if not superior, in every way to the crack vessels of the American Matson line, which, for some time past, have been skim-_ ming the cream of this purely British trade.
Difficulties'on the British shipping routes in the Pacific have been the subject of exchanges between the Imperial and Dominion Governments for at least three years. It has remained for the Imperial Conference to reach a provisional decision on ways and means, If the Parliaments concerned—
British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand—endorse the proposals of their representatives at the Con-
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