CUNARDERS CUT IN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 545, 24 December 1928, Page 1

CUNARDERS CUT IN

CHALLENGE TO U.S. SHIPS “OPEN WAR” ON HAVANA ROUTE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Saturday. The ‘New York World” says the United States Shipping Board has declared open war on the attempt of the Cunard Line, with its 20,000-ton liner Caronia, to cut into the hitherto unbroken American monopoly of the direct steamship route between New York and Havana. The board has assigned the American liner President Roosevelt, of 14,000 tons, to the Ward Line, to be run in competition with the Caronia this winter. The chairman of the shipping board, Mr. T. U. O’Connor, said the board was prepared to sustain a considerable los in order to drive the Cunard Line out of the trade, which the board considered to be peculiarly American. All the American lines that are now in this trade will also probably suffer somewhat through the addition of two large and fast steamers to the route.