The Washington herald., 1918-01-31
ALLIED BOARD
WILLCONTROL
ALLSHIPPING
New Committee to Have Su.
preme Power as Inter-
, allied Marine Council.

Absolute control OF all shipping and
shipping facilities. both here and in
the allied ports. was yesterday vested
In a committee of three, constituting
what will be an interallied marine
council
The committee VIII consist OF p. A.
S. Franklin. president of the Interna-
tional Mercantile Marine. chairman;
II. II. Raymond. head of the Clyde
and Mallory lines. and Sir Connop
Guthrie. who is director Of shipping
in America for Great Britain
Broad Powers.
The power of this committee on ship
control. organized at a meeting of rep
reseutatives of the Shipping Board.
army, navy. British Embassy, Bureau
OF Navigation and director general Of
railroads, extends TO the following:
ALLEGATION of all shipping: both cargo
and passenger, and allied and neutral.
as to port Of entry or departure.
Pooling of all shipping facilities.
Distribution OF all shipping. both to
navigating companies and allotment
OF shipping to allied nations.
Assembling Of all vessels for con-
voy, thus obviadng what has been
heretofore a source Of delay.
Designation OF new transatlantic
port terminals and appointment OF
shipping controllers for each port.
Direction OF diversion Of war sup
plies and other export material to
mitigate rail congestion, facilitate
short hauls and expedite loading
and unloading.
Adjustment Of freight rates.
The British director will operate
from New York, where his head
quarters have been, as will. also,
MI. Raymond. Mr.. Franklin will
direct affairs from Washington.
The conference naming the commit
tee comprised: Edward N. Hurley,
chairman OF the United States Ship
ping Board and president of the Emer-
gency Fleet Corporation; Joseph T.
Lilly. Of Gen. GoethaPs office, re-
Gently appointed director OF shipping
for the War Department: Sir Richard
Crawford. commercial sttaohe Of the
British Embassy: E. Manifold Rae
burn. OF the British Mission; E. c.
Chamberlain, United States Commits
sioner of Navigation; Edward w.
Chambers, traffic adviser to Director
General Of Railroads McAdoo; EDWARD
SdAOys uAELAtOE IOE
the Shipping Board; Commander Belk-
nap. OF the navy; Mai. J. A. Coates,
OF the War Department; Dean Edward
Gay, OF the Shipping Board. and
Messrs. Franklin, Gutnrie and Ray
mond.
Co-Ordlnation Planned.
Although neither the army or
navy has a representative on the
committee, all departments of the
government will coordinate with
it through representatives, and CO.
operate with its decisions. 1t was
deemed advisable to concentrate
final power in as few men as pos
sible. The conference indicated q
complete cohesion OF all the forces
affected in winning the war.
One of the first acts of the COM
mittee will be to establish more
transatlantic ports in the South by
allocating shipping there. This will
be done particularly in cotton ship
ments. Instead OF hauling cotton
for shipment from New York, it will
be short-hauled from cotton terri
tory to cotton territory ports,
mainly Savannah, Brunswick and
Charleston.
This same principle will be followed
in other territories with other COM
modities wherever feasible.
The emergency ports, however. will
acquire no permanent overseas i'm
portance, in general, as Baltimore,
Boston, Philadelphia and New York
will handle the bulk of the shipping
when freight congestion is cleared,
especially as they afford a shorter
haul to Europe.
AS soon as formal approval comes
from Great Britain. representatives
of the committee will he sent to Eng
land and France. With these, and
with Sir Connop Guthrie. acting as
the representative of France and
Italy, as is expected, there will be
established a supreme interallied con-
troll of virtually every ship that plies
the sea-