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Show II8ILITV TO GET CARS nil UP .8000SI1HII OTTAWA, March 19 Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of mercnan-disc mercnan-disc consigned for export to tho Unit-edKlate3 Unit-edKlate3 is being held up here owing to a shortage of foreign" railroad cars I in wnich to ship the goods. Tho sit-juaVon sit-juaVon has been rendered moie so-, ItIous, it is slated, by an em cargo placed by the New York Central last Monday against shipments, from Canada Can-ada east of Buffalo. Canadian roads are to be unwilling to let cars go' across the border as there are already 00,000 Canadian tars jon Uniled States railroads and nearly 140,000 foreign cars on Canadian lines. Railroad officials state- that the ts!ort-age ts!ort-age will continue at least ten days jvn increase of $103.02G,S32 in Canadian Cana-dian trade, both imports and exports, was made in the eloven months ending February 29 over the same period a yeai ago, according to statistics an-noounced an-noounced today by the customs depart-men! depart-men! The total for the past eleven months was $2,110.5 18.50-1 as compared compar-ed with $2,006,621,072 for the same month a year ago. nn |