Show GERMAN AND BRITISH SEA RIVALRY The rivalry between the German and the English shipping interests is m most st intense The Germans have just reduced the rates between New Net York and Southampton and Hamburg to first cabin passengers 2250 and the Cunard agent in Nel New Ne NewYork l' l York ork says he will twill meet the cu cut and intimates that he ma may go the Germans one better Judge Botkin when here said he saw German st steamers amers loading scrap iron above Cape Town freight that the British ships would would- not carry or which rather the they charged so BO much for carrying afford it The Germans Germans Ger Ger- that the owners could not to ship mans maD had Iad orders to leave 6 no freight behind to get all they Hie- could and if the freight is s not enough the I German Government makes up the difference to the ships The rhe Kaiser means before he lie d dies es to have a I merchant marine and a na navy that will be he superior to that of f his uncle in the th tight little isle Up Lp to I had had her few ships built in iii foreign ship yards She does not an any more and aud until the thc Lusitania Lusitania Lusitania Lusi- Lusi tania shall prove pro her supremacy the Germans will hold the blue ribbon as the builders of the finest and fleetest ships that ever sailed the thc seas sens And our I own country with its unapproachable ocean carry ing freight has no no flag in ninety out ont o gf f every one onehundred onehundred hundred ports of the thc world 1 |