Show B LOSE L U i i European steamship companies taking note of ot the constantly in increasing Increasing increasing creasing Importance of ot South America are adding to the Ule number of ot vessels they thO now have In that trade fade with all aU possible po A company leas has just ju t been formed Jr Ir Hamburg Germany called the and Hamburg Platt Plate r I I ne to to t conduct a frt I Lightly ld i e n Hamburg and ther ether western European ports and Buenos S AU Aires It is buying I to start with arid and i hiring having j i others built t to t U b ih used uSI d as frel though first art ari I a i second class cl s passengers ers will also be betaken taken The Pacific Steam Navigation com company pany one of ot the most powerful British steamship enterprises in South America Amerl a has In T tenders for tor two newt neN soh t feet teet long and with for or 1200 pass passengers engers engere for tor this now express Liver Liverpool pool to Buenos Aires service to ac no accommodate accommodate the increased Inor d passenger traffic resulting from the opening of ot the railway The Royal Dutch Lloyd has haa recent recently ly lit several fast tast steamers on the Buenos Buena Bt Os Aires route and the leading Swedish Sw line Une will shortly add two more ships to its present fleet leet in or order tier der to accommodate the Increased trade tr o between the Scandinavian countries co and the Argentine Republic W Jle the Europeans are harvest hane t Ing the South American trade by b in Int t their shipping facilities the th a ve of ot the United States at Buenos ue Aires i informs us that during tho thov first t the live months of or 1910 not a aio v io single merc vessel v Ss 1 flying the CJ lag has entered r the Ule port of or Aires V We T are 9 obliged to tb t ship our products to Argentina under foreign flags Other Othor shipping Inter Interests eels ests e ts have improved ed the opportunity of ot turning the tha greater Interest of the United States in Latin America to i strengthen their fleets and md to tu reap the fruits of ot what we have sown The Th great weakness of ot the United States at the present time is the lack of a merchant marine W Ye We a are spending half halt a billion dollars to fin finish finIsh finish ish the Panama canal can 1 only to t help the trade of ot other nations unless steps are taken to reestablish the primacy of ot the American flat fIll Oft on o i the high seas i r Is la time Ume some s me attention te Is given Ien to this matt matter r |