4 DECEMBER 1926, Page 3

The very interesting announcement that the Royal Mail Company has

bought back the White Stir Line from the Morgan Shipping combine is discussed elsewhere by our City Editor. The old association between the White Star line and the famous Belfast shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Harland and Wolff is to be maintained. Lord Kylsant is chairman of both Harland and Wolff and the Royal Mail, so he is now a kind of liaison officer in excelsis. It is well known that his persistence and skill have carried the day in dealing with the American company. As the whole British nation is proud of its Mercantile Marine it gives him very hearty congratulations and he thoroughly deserves them. * *