Berlin, Jan. 14, trust has been founded at Essen with a provisional share-capital of 50,000 marks the partners being the Rhine-Elbe Company, the Thyssen Group and the Phoenix and Rhine Steel Companies. The new concern hich dos not comprise all the works of the four groups, is merely, a provisional measure for the pose of placing production on a profitable basis and minimizing costs of production, A definite fusion de-yonds on the taxes which the State proposes to impose.—Reuter,
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