ALLEGED SHIPPING RING.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14392, 6 January 1911, Page 6

ALLEGED SHIPPING RING.

# AMERICA ATTACKS IT. Press Association—By Tel. —Copyright, j Received 12.40 a.m., Jan. oth. NEW YORK, Jan. 5. Suit,s seeking the dissolutiou of tho Atlantic Conference under tho terms of the Sherman anti-Trust law, have been begsn in the United States Circuit Court of New York. i The companies f-u-:i:i::j; tho Atlanta; Confer-once are tho Allan Steam Ship. International Mercantile Alarir.e, International Navigation. Canadian, Pacific, Cunard, British and North Atlantic,' Hamburg American, Holland American, North German Lloyd, Red Star, White Star, Russian and East Asiatic. The Government charges that these companies entered into an illegal contract in February 1908, in London, arrogating to themselves power to apportion all trans-Atlantic traffic pro rata, and imposing heavy fines on members of the conference if they violated the agreement. It is alleged that the Russian volunteer fleet, in the New "Ybrk-Libau service, was driven out of business, and that the Russian American Compaany was forced to enter the Conference. The penalty, if the Conference is not dissolved, is refusal of the United States Government to allow the companies' vessels to clear at any of the United States ports.