FREIGHT WAR.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12764, 4 February 1910, Page 2

FREIGHT WAR.

German lines undercutting. competincTfoii south african trade. [Press Association— Copyright.] (Received Feb 3, 10;25 p.m.) London, Feb 3. Four German steamship lines are offering to take cargo for British South Africa from, Southampton, Liverpool, London, and Glasgow at 5s per ton below the British conference lines' rates.. ' The Germans start this as a (retaliation for the Union Casfle line loading steamers, at Antwerp and Hamburg for East Africa. A fierce freight war is threatened..