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Show RAILWAY BLOCKADE WEST OF PITTSBURG President of Lehigh Valley Says His Road Is in Position Posi-tion to Handle Traffic. NEW YORK. Feb. 16. Transportation conditions in the section west of Buffalo and Pittsburg, extending to the Mississippi Missis-sippi river, are chiefly responsible for the freight congestion throughout the country and not partial paralysis of shipping ship-ping resulting from Germany's submarine subma-rine activities, E. B. Thomas, president of the Lehigh Valley railroad, asserted today. He said that road now is in better bet-ter condition to handle freight than at any time last winter. "Were it not for the embargoes placed by lines west of Buffalo," Mr. Thomas declare, "we would be able to handle promptly all carload freight for destination destina-tion beyond our lines. Because of the inability in-ability of our western connections to accept ac-cept business from us in a normal way," he added, "we are holding a great mans' cars for them in our Buffalo territory. We are handling less than carload freight for the west currently, although the placing plac-ing of embargoes on this class of freight by other eastern lines may divert such a quantity of this business to our line as to compel us also to embargo it for the time being." |