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Show HMPM I MARINE PLANS M Rapid Work Being Done in Arranging for Ship 1 Inspections. RULE TO BE STRICT Station Off South Atlantic to Be Established to Accommodate Accom-modate That Section. I Washington, Feb. 16. Details of th arrangement for examining east-bound j I trans-Atlantic shipping at Halifax, N. ' S., instead of Kirkwall, are being workout work-out rapidly through exchanges between 111 the British admiralty, the Canadian authorities and the British embassay 1 here. I Robert Spc-ar Hudson, third secretary secre-tary of the embassy now Is In New J York consulting with the British con- Jl ; sul general and with representatives of shipping interests, preparatory to going to Halifax, where he will act as the agent for the embassy In arranging ar-ranging for the examination of ship- ,Pine. ... .... ;i lH More Inspectors Needed. j The comparatively small forces of Inspectors In-spectors already assembling at Hall- fax to search the passengers and cargo 1 of the Danish liner Frederick VIII, upon which Count von Bernstorff and his party are traveling, is said at the embassy here to be inadequate for ox- aminatlon of the total volume of shipping ship-ping expected to pass by way of Halifax Hali-fax and It will be necessary praotlc- j ally to duplicate tho elaborate machinery machin-ery at Kirkwall. Ship Masters to Co-operate. In consideration of conducting the examinations on the western sldo of the Atlantic, which British officials here declare is entlroly In deforence to the needs of American commerce, I American ship masters are expootcd ! to co-operate and avoid any attempt j to make their way across the Atlantic without inspection. Instead of abandoning the praotlce ' of issuing "letters of assurance" to ! American exporters to facilitate the . handling of their goods in transit, the j British authorities now state that this , practice will be made general and i all exporters will be required to pro-j pro-j cure such letters of assurance." Rule to Be Strict, Fairure in that respect or attempt of shipmasters to avoid the Inspection either at Halifax or Kirkwall, it Is declared de-clared will result in taking goods and snips to the British prize courts. Extension of the Halifax extension to west-bound traffic now Is under consideration con-sideration by the British authorities and it was said at the embassy today that some announcement on that ub-ject ub-ject soon will be made. Of particular interest to cotton shipping ship-ping points and all South Atlantic and Gulf port cities is the fact that there is under consideration a proposition to open a station off the South AtlanCe , coasW and adjacent to tho principal Shipping ports to serve as a place of examination for American cargoes, thereby relieving some vessels from the necessity of making the long detour de-tour to Halifax. 1 |