The Archive · 1938

President Liners To Call Here

Shanghai Conditions Must First Improve; Local Request Noted

Washington, Nov. 14.

Mr. T. M. Woodward, acting chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, on being informed today that American business organizations in Shanghai had cabled the Commission a request that American President Line steamers include Shanghai in their itinerary, and the Line's steamers would call at Shanghai as soon as it was commercially and econo-tically feasible to do so.

At present, the acting chairman told the United Press, the cost of war risk insurance on steamers call-

Welfare Work to Be

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