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Show CARGO VESSELS IN LIVERPOOL Port Congested With Merchant Mer-chant Ships From Various Ports of World More Arriving. (Correspondence of the Associated Press) Liverpool, Jan. 15. Imports of foodstuffs, food-stuffs, raw materials and other commodities com-modities at Liverpool continue on an unprecedented scale! and the congestion, conges-tion, which was already acute, has been accentuated by th arrival of twenty-one more cargo vessels from various ports of the world. Shipping, dock and railway interests inter-ests in turn assert they are doing! their best to relieve the situation and dear the, cargoes as rapidly as pos slble. With several ports In the United Kingdom closed to ordinary I traffic, tho bulk of the overseas trade is now coming to Liverpool I Some veiself are said to have been lying in the river a fortnight waiting I to be unloaded |