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Show HUES ACCEPT PLAN OF SHIPPiMIl Complete Unification of Atlantic At-lantic Commerce Operations Opera-tions Assured. WASHINGTON. Keb. 6. Acceptance by the allies of the plan to turn over the direction of all trans-Atlantic tonnage to a ship eonuol committee recently created was announced tonight by E. N. Hurley, chairman of the shipping board, with the assurance that this promises a complete unification of Atlantic shipping operations. opera-tions. The committee, comprising- P. A. S'. Franklin, K. H. Raymond and Sir Connop Outline, was nam-'fl at a conference of government department heads, shipping interests and representatives of the allies. al-lies. Sir Connop was selected to represent repre-sent on the committee the interallied chartering conference, contingent on the ! allies' acceptance of a plan of ahocutincj tonnaue. Woid has just been received I that the allied governments arc heartily in favor of the profosal. Vi e Chariman Stevens of the shipping boa rd. who i" to go to London, will sit with the chartering conference as the American representative, assisting on the other side in recommendations regarding the distribution of ships from a general pool to Ik- tornied. Actual allocution of ships in the pool will be in th.e hands of the control commit com-mit tee. -.'nation of the committee," said Mr. Hurley tonight, "is one of the practical resu! ts of t lie intei a Hie 1 war council recently re-cently held at Paris. The move wiil increase in-crease tne efficiency of th merchant fleets of America and the allies. If the maximum efficiency can be obtained from every ship available, if cargoes can be loaded and unloaded without delay and ships can be moved promptly, it will he equivalent to the addition of considerable new tonnage. The committee will be left free to coordinate co-ordinate the needs of the various government govern-ment departments, effecting such interchange inter-change o:' tonrage and traffic as may be practicable with the allied governments." |