Show RATE CUTTING WAR STARTED IN EAST NEW Y YORK RK M May 14 Ko No agreement agreement agree agree- ment was reached at a a. meeting of the tho I import rate committee of the tho trunk line lino association held here yesterday afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- I noon to attempt a settlement of the tho rate war that has grown out of tho cuts made by the Boston Maine on on import traffic and the cuts made by the Philadelphia Baltimore and other lines to meet these new rates The Tho Philadelphia and Baltimore lines contended that they would maintain the thc differential that previously existed between tho the Baltimore rato rate and the tho Boston rate and that the cuts that these lines have made have had the maintenance of this differential rate as its object ct The challenge of the tho Boston Boston Boston Bos Bos- ton Maine to Baltimore's Baltimore 8 right to a differential differentia as compared with Boston led to the tho conference yesterday and was the cause causo of the rate rata war It is expected that another conference confer confer- once ence will ho bo held in a few weeks The Tho rate war has affected the entire west weston on the transportation of imports |