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Show NORWEGIANS SEEK CREDnjNAMEHIGA BANKERS EXPECTED TO ARRANGE FOR PAYMENT OF HUGE SUMS I TO THIS COUNTRY. Material Formerly Supplied by Germany Ger-many to be Purchased by Norway In the American Market. New York. Four Norwegian bankers bank-ers arrived here Sunday on. the Nor wegian liner Dergensfjord to make credit arrangements for the payment bf huge sums for material purchased In the United States. One item alone ts $200,000,000 for steamships con-; atructed in American ship-building i yards. These gentlemen ir. their interviews on arrival very carefully insisted they were not here as a commission, but a individuals. Other passengers, however, declared they did form a commission. William Rose, o Boston banker, who was on the same vessel, returning from a trip to Norway, said: ! "It is up to the American bankers to get busy at once and establish credit banks in Norway, This can't be done too quickly.'' There were also on board the Dergensfjord Der-gensfjord seven Norwegian captains. They are here to take over n large number of big freight steamships that have been 'built In America'! yards for Norwegian concerns Captain lijalman T Bryde oC the Stolt Neilson company of Christiania is on his way to Seattle to take over seven 9,000-ton steamers built there and two 7,000-ton steamers built in San Francisco for his company. He said the vessels would probably be put in the Pacific freight trade. |