SHIPPING RATES.
GERMAN COMPETITION. V/
Press Association—Electric Telegraph—Copyright, Received Friday, 10.5 p.m. LONDON, Thursday.
Four German steamship lines are offering to take cargoes to British South Africa fr-om Southampton, Liverpool, London and Glasgow at 5s a ton below the British Conference hines rates. The Germans are taking this actiou in retaliation on the Union Castle line for loading steamers at Antwerp and Hamburg for East Africa. A fierce freight war is threatened.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXII, Issue 9594, 4 February 1910, Page 5
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