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TO INVESTIGATE ship TRUST
BRITISH MINISTRY TAKING
STEPS TO MEET SITUATION.
The Combination Evidently Officially
Considered Detrimental to Great
Britain -fsepiies 40 Further Inquiries
In the House of Commons.

| Britain--sepites TO Further Inquiries
| In the House of Commons.
London, April 25-Further questions
| in the House of Commons to-day on the
| subject of the shipping combination
elected information showing that the
| government is taking steps to cope with
the situation, which evidently is Off
cially considered detrimental to Great
Britain.
The secretary of the admiralty, Mr..
Arnold Forster, replying to Henry Nor
man 0iberaD in the House of Commons
to-day, said that the attention of the
admiralty had been called to the form
alton of the Atlantic shipping combina-
900, mostly held in the United States,
and with registered offices in America.
The secretary was informed that tWen-
ty-eight British trans Atlantic steam
ships were controlled by this combina-
ton among them being three subsidized
steamers and five others which We're
held at the admiraltys disposal without
subsidy. The White Star line gave the
admiralty no notice of its intention to
enter the combination.
The president of the board of trade,
Gerald Balfour, said the board of trade
had no official information about the
combination, but plenty of unofficial in
telligence had reached the board. The
effect of such a combination on British
shipping generally would areceive the
careful attention of the board, but any
formal inquiry would be premature No
information regarding the arrange
ments made by the American syndicate
to control the Atlantic traffic, including
passenger, freight and other charges,
and the movements of the vessels
largely belonging to British companies,
had been submitted to the board before
the arrangements were made AS to
steps to secure the commercial and po-
litical interests of the United Kingdom
and to prevent foreign interference
with British shipping, conflicting with
engagements made with the admiralty,
he said that the matter had occupied
and is occupying the governments ae-
tention.
Shipping circles express satisfaction
with the announcement of Mr.. Arnold
Forster in the House Of Commons yes
terday Of the appointment of a commit
tee to inquire into the Whole subject, as
the admiralty, Much Is made
of the fact that tha lnman line steam
ers City of Paris, now the American
line steamer Philada phia, and the City
of New York, now the American line
steamer New York, after receiving
6 &c, 800 in subsidies, were transferred to
the American flag, and it is commended
that there is nothing to prevent repe-
tition of such action.
j Pierpont Morgan. jr., said to rep
resentative of the Associated Press hi s |
There has not been sin /
gle development in the shipping trust /
since the announcement Of the Associ- /
ated Press of April 10, All this aGita-
ton in England is quite unbiased. We I
cannot transfer ships from The British |
to the American flag, and what is more, /
we have not contemplated ii. Some of /
the serious papers here are certainly 4
making great fuss, but it all appears !
to us to be very sensational Journal I
ism. We know of no opposition to the /
and neither know nor partic-
llarly care at the present moment what I
The Cunard and other outsiders plans
nay be. In course of time the agree
nent on which the trust is based will be
submitted to the shareholders of the in
1ividual companies concerned But Il
good deal has got to be done before that
happens"