Rome, May 28, Mahan steamship companies have been merged into four leading lines, which will be the only ones to be operated in Italy, all smaller ones having been absorbed.
'The new organization wil! enter into force on January 1, 1997, From that date on, the ftalla Steamship Ca. will' ensure the. trans-Atlantic service, the Lloyd Triestino will run, the Aftican, Oriental, Far Eastern and Austration lines, while the Tirrenia and the Adriatica companies will take care of the subventioned fines in the Mediterranean, " the Black Sea and of those between Kaly and Northern Burope—Havas, PROTEST AGAINST JAPANESE,
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