SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1920;
SHIPPING PROFITS.
THE TRUTH ABOUT THEM.
An article recently appeared in the Daily Hereld from its special corre- spondent in Liverpool referring to an Litended ballot on the part of the
THE UNINTERNED HUN.
A BECRET OF THE WAR.
Probably the best secrets of the war will never be revealed. But to those who were sometimes in the know there were some amazing hap
some queer comedies.
that it W25 a
RADIUM FOR RESEARCH.
£7,500 WJRTE.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
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the Ministry of Munitions, Health Research Department hus In its possession the largest amount“ of this rare substance, of any one authority, for it is computed that half
villlion
pounds sterling per ounce is the market value of radium. Dr. Barlow, who has had charge of the gramme and a half in Hospital, is issuing a report upon the experiments which have been con- ducted there during the last six months, and this will be published by the Medical Research Committee, the fortunate for British hospitais that this is available, as the world stocks are very soft, though in America certain areas of untapped radio-
but in actual element for research there is not an ounce in the world.
From the Ministry of Manitions Sailors' and Firemen's Unian on the Penings in the years. 1914-18, and the Ministry of Health has scquired † his laboratory at the Middlesex |
There was 48 grammes of radium valued at subject of nationalisation of shipping one gentleman of pure German ex-about £72.500. The Disposals Board, and drawing attention to the present traction for whose internment aa Daily Chronicle representative was high rates of freight and the colosse popular weekly paper was roaring informed recently, has another 145 And no doubt the milligrammes for disposal, and the profits made by shipowners as grounds Fincessantly.
The article, for nationalisation. which abounds in mis-statements cf/average man and woman thought remaining quantities may be acquired trusted holders of the supply. It is
great scandal by Interested persons, unless the was Medical Research Committee takes it fact and misleading suggestions, that this particular Hun fostances several cases of vessels allowed to be at large. The real ex- over. How this radium was obtained having been recently sold for sums planation is worth hearing even now. was explained by an official During many times in excess of cost price a when the war assurned its true the war there was an enormous bromide are available for working. few years ago, and apparently argues dimension, and the woeful inade quantity of material like paint for from this fact that shipowners must quacy of our munition supply turned sun sights, dials, and other surfaces be making coormous profits for them all energies into shell-making, the on Instruments that had to be to be willing to pay such prices.
factories promptly Turned their rendered huminous at night.
All this was radio-active, and when
A PARENT'S DUTY. Does the writer seriously argue ploughshares into swords. In plain that shipowners enjoy paying ex-
English they went over to shell- the acted crocuted sufficient to YOUR boy is sirays getting scratch- cessive prices for ships or that making. And then, when Kitchener's extracted it produced sufficient to ed or out be bruised. Because nationalisation will reduce either Army began to grow to monstrous enable the Research Department to the wounds have bealed sil right is no freights or the cost of tornage?
which have been going on at the Chamberlain's Fain Balm and see that Does the writer suggest that British proportions, the Government sudden carry out a series of experiments sign they always will. Grat, a bottle of disastrous shortage of sewing Middlesex Hospital, principally con-every injury is cared for immediately. shipowners are the richer because of ly discovered that there was.
You can get nothing better, and blood poison is too dangerous a disesse to risk. the increased value of tonnage? It
By taking over the remaining For sale by all Chemists and Store- were as reasonable for the British machines, which made the clothing nected with cancer cure.
of our troops impossible. It was a working man to consider himself the serious crisis. Victory depended in quantities of radio-active stock from keepers. richer because the tools of his trade
a measure on a button-certainly on The tools of the suits. And then in their extremity cost him more. trade of the British shipowner are the Government approached this un his ships, and any rise in value of interned ""Hut," who in a marvellous-
cost of his ships increases the
ly short time secured from a relative business.
In Germany, via a neutral county- Dear ships earn no higher freight two shiploads of German sewing than cheap ships, nor is it the rise machines for the British Government. in freights which have led to higher And that's why one "Hun" remained cost of ships, which is solely due to at large in spite of all the journalistic
in price. of increase materiale and labour and the lessened fury of a weekly journal that believes
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output of labour: What advantage
is it to the shipowner to have a ship now worth £200,000 which before
it knows everything.--Ex.
the war cost £100,000? None. It rate for the carriage of these goods, anly means he has to accumulate for if we did not do that the advant
out of his profits sufficient sums to age of carrying at cost would certain- ly not reach those whom we should cover the extra cost.
desire to benefit."
SHIPCWNERS' LOSSES.
What advantage, therefore, have the British public The following instances, which | British seamen have actually occurred, will show to expect from nationalisation of shipping? Experience proves that it. that this is so :-
3. Ship A, built for £420.000, was will neither reduce freights nor lower sunk by submarine; £700,000 paid to prices, and, furthermore, the carry- her owners by the War Risks Insuring on of any business by a Govern ance Club. Apparent profit to the ment Department means inefficiency shipowner, £280,000: cost to replace, and waste, as has been amply proved Inefficiency and £1,300,000: actual loss to the ship-during the war.
waste in the shipping industry means owner. £600,000.
2. Ship B cost £75,900; depreciat-ruin to the country.
Compulsorily The article in the Daily Herald ed value £64,000. acquired by the Government for states further that the high cost of £96,000: apparent profit, £32,000. freight which led to the huge of profits-acted The vessel was replaced in 1917 by a accumulation similar but slightly smaller vessel at precisely in the same way as protec The tive duties, raising the price of an actual cost of £280,000. loss to the wars was, therefore, wheat and other farm produce. This £184,000. The quotation this year kind of statement aught not to be made. It is not only untrue, but its for a similar vessel is £383.000.
Numbers of similar instances can untruth has been exposed time and be given, but it must be obvious that again from authoritative sources. increase in the value of tonnage is a The Right Hon. J. M. Robertson, source of loss and not of profit to who acted as the chairman of the shipowners, who, in order to carry Departmental Committee on Food on their business, have to pay the Prices, said in the House of Com current market price for tonnage mons in July, 1917 -
"A great deal of ignorant outery whether they like it or not. The complaint of the writer of the article was raised in the Press at the begin.
We often read in seems to resolve itself into one that ning of the war. shipowners, in spite of obstacles in the Press and heard in this House the shape of increased cost, still that the high rates of shipping endeavour to carry on a business accounted for the rise in food prices. without which the nation cannot I can say something on that subject from special investigation,, as I hap- curvive,
Those who complain
of high pened to be associated with the freights seem to think that British Committee on Food Prices. The ahipowners control the rates oblivious high rates of freight had nothing of the fact that the tonnage of the whatever to do worth mentioning Urited Kingdom is now only about with the increase in the price of 34 per cent of the world's steam tonnage, and that it is the world's demand for shipping which fixes the world's rates of freight.
food,"
And Mr. Clynes told the House of Commons in October, 1917:
*Shipping rates bad no important bearing on the cost of the principal articles of food."
For a British shipowner or any group of British shipowners to lower
To attribute high prices to shipping freights would only play into the hands of the merchant abroad. The freights is merely to obscure the real price of any given commodity in this causes, which are that there is a country imported at a low rate of world's shortage of supplies, for freight must of necessity be the same which all the nations in the world are as the same commodity imported at bidding in competition, aggravated
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MARKET PRODUCE IN HONGKONG.
Bullock's
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
Butcher Meat.
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May 26th, 1990.
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Poultry.
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Chicken-Kai Taxi ..... kom. Cspone, Small,--Bin Kai.... Lapena, Large,—Bin Kal ....... Dock-Ap.... Dores.-Pan Ka
... lb. 98
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RAL 19
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140
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30
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Eggs, Hen-Kal Tan (cooking) per dos. 23: Eggs, Hen,Kal Tan (fresh).....per dor. 26 Fewis, Canton, Bali.... 35 40 Forla, Haipan-Bol Ram K Gaese,-Ngo
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11
15%
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Boef Strickn-Mei Lazy Falḥ. 20
Prime Cut... Corned,--Eam Ngao Yak. „ Ross-Sila Breast-Ngan Nam Soap,-Tong Yak Steak,-Ngan Yok Pa`.... Steak Striola-Ngas. Las is Sazzages, Ngat Cheung..
Briot-Ngan No per set 10
Tongue, fresh,-galesch 80 Torgue, corned,-Ham Ngan Ld!
esah 60 cent Haad, Ngau Ta... ch 84.00 Heat-Nya. Sam. l. 15 18 Homp, Salt-Nga El... Foot-Ngan Keuk...ach: 10 10 Eldneys-Ngan Yle
18. -Ngan Mel Liver,-Ngan Ko... Ib. 18 Tripe (undressed), Ngau To Ib.. 6
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Calvan Head and Foot-Ngar-teal-
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Eelto-Bol Eau Pak Kap
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tach 25 Tarkeys, Cock,-Fo Kal Keng lb. 70 Turkeys, Bea-Fo Ka Na
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Snipe,-Sha Thulas e in ... och 22. Pheasant,Shan Kab. Quail-On Chin Partridge, Che Ka
39
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Fruits.
Cta.
...lb 45
Almonds,-Hang Yan Apples, (California),-Kam Stan
Ping Ku SC Bananas, (bride's), Macao-Ban !-- Eleung Chin Carambola-Yang To
Matton
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Saddle-Young On Yak Chilligs,-Chu Chang
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Labo, Chu Hau Ton ̈...
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Lai Chi Kon lb. 1.20 Oranges, (Canton),, Sweet-
Shantheng Tim Chang 1b. 24 20 Ozanger, Tim Chang .......... Pears, (Canton), Cooking,-8he LJ 14 * 19 Pazuta,--Fa Shang ....
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MatteoBhang Yeung Yan, 32 Veal,--Ngan Tai Fak..... ... in 20. Saugos,-Ngau Tal Cheng20 No. 1... lb. 28
a high rate of freight, as there cannot by the dislocation of transport 10 8xebal,- Yo... be two prices for the same standard this country, owing partly to the Bream-Pin Yo... commodity, and the profit which the unintelligent way in which the Canton Fresh Water Fish - British shipowner would sacrifice in Ministry of Food has flooded the
a low rate of freight would merely ports with different commodities, but go to the foreign producer or some more largely to the shorter hours foreign speculator in freight space, and reduced efficiency of transport and would certainly not find its way and kindred workers. into the pockets of the consumer in this country.
There is one remedy, and ODC alone," for high prices, and that is increased supplies. Reduced supplies not merely increase cost, but create conditions under which alone pro fiteering can flourish.
cara-Ta Jatfish-Chik Ya todfish-Muu Yu
Vegetables, &o.
Artichokes,-Ah Chi Checkich 10 Ib. 4 Beans, Epropt-Ng Tao
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INSURING MOTHER- IN-LAW.
JUDGE'S COMMENTS ON A SOCIETY.
Strong comments were made in an action at Birmingham County Court by Judge Ruegg on the conduct of an
Mrs." industrial assurance company. Emma Thomas, of Perry Barr, sued Jethro Kent, secretary of the British Workmen's Sick Benefit and Life Assurance Friendly Society, of Bir- mingham, for £8 2s. 34. premiums paid on a life policy on her mother- in-law.
Mr. Stanton, for Mrs. Thomas, said that in 1912 she took out a policy through Mr. Hawkins, a member of the society's executive, in respect of her mother-in-law and one on her father-in-law. In 1915 she took out! another policy on her mother-in-law, In that year the Father-in-law died and the policy was paid, but in 1917, bay ing been told by an employee of the society that she had no insurable in-
Best Root-Hung Toi Taneschterest and could not benefit by the
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Ginger, young-Ban The Keng 10. Ginger, old; Lo Keung
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When Government control was in stituted the Shipping Department was faced with this very difficulty, and Sir: Leo Chlozza Money, who cannot be accused of any great
DECONTROL AND FREIGHT RATES, sympathy with shipowners, speaking
The Daily Herald article then in the House of Commons in Octo- ber, 1917, in defending the increases refers to decontrol having had the in freights imposed by the Ministry effect of raising freight rates from after shipping had come under Gov 42s. 6d to 93s 4d. This is a mis chievous and misleading statement. ernment control, said
I remember in the old days, leng The freights under Government. con- before I was connected with the trol were never 42s 6d, except for Labena-Woog Fa Ya Ministry of Shipping, saying it would goods belonging to Government | Losch, Wa Yo...
Wheat | Lobab m,-Lang Hs ....... be a most unwise thing merely to departments, such as the transfer profit from the shipowner to Commission. This rate continued Mackerel, Cht Ya... the merchant or producer. At a after decontrol, but the benefit of Hook Tub,-Mong Y time when freights were high, what those low freights is entirely illusory Mallah-Tra! Yo was the use of an individual ship as their only effect is to force up the oysters,Shang Ho owner or group of shipowners lower rates on goods carried in foreign Parrob Fish,-Kal Kung Yu ... ing freights merely to make a pre- vessels, which the Government can.
Phe frls Tong co sent to the foreign producer? not control, but which fix the world's Pre-Tan L
applies rates of freight. The real facts are Plaice,-PAD-YP... The same consideration now to Blue Cook rates. If we that freights generally have fallen Pomfret, Black-Hak Chon extend the carrying at-cost to priv as the result of decontrol For Pomfret, White Pak Chon
Frawng-Ming HVA rately-controlled supplies at a time example
Ray,--Pal Pa Bha Rosch Chan Yp: Rock Fah-Shak Kan aki Ya
when, as everybody knows, these In the Indian trade the Govern aupplies are extremely, short, it is ment jute rate for private traders merely taking money out of the was 4007. The rate is now 1458, pockets of the shipowner in order to The Government export rate on Shark-bha Yu -present it, sometimes to the middle- iron to private traders was 903. It Skate Fe Ya
man.at home and sometimes to the is now big every SPAMPER Ya
middleman and producer abroad. In the North Atlantic trade the Therefore, in the case of uncontrol Government rate on cotton to pri-
led supplies we considered to bevate traders was $6.25. The rate bot To Han our daly and I hope the House wilt for stroller grade cotion is now $1.75 Lazice with toto charge the market to $2.05.
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death of her mother-in-law, she claim-
ed repayment of the premiums. She was offered the premiums back, less 25 per cent for office expenses, or a transfer of the policy to her husband, with a forfeiture of the premiums i paid. She refused both offers. The policy described her as "daughter. " though M. Hawkins, knew she was the woman's daughter-in-law.
It was stated that the defence was under the Life Insurance Act, which said that no person without an insur able interest can benefit.
Judge Ruegg I thought the judges of the High Court and the justices had shows the insurance companies that was not so, the gen
Mr. Kent, secretary of the society, admitted thre the proposal forms were destroyed two years ago with a lot of waste paper.
Judge Ruegg: Do you say that proposal forms, on which you gener- ally refuse to pay, are waste paper?
Mr. Williants (for the defence): May I suggest that generally is i very strong word. Will your honour withdraw it? DADA,
Judge Ruegg: No. My experience
Tb 10is that industrial societies will not pay
Onions, Bombay, Young Chung Ten bus up if they find any flaw in the Onions, Green,Bhang Cheng lb. 4 proposal forms.
14 plum, Barghal-Bhaurg-bol
...... Chung Tas jy Parley-un Trot Potato Bwska Ehy in
Japanoset ParShe Ted The Axican-Fa-Ki 55 TI TEU Pompki fung
Radish, Hana
Pak
Rhubarb (Frish), —Tal
Shallots, Kook Chong Ten,
Spinsalin Tal
Tarco's Tan Tarmly, Pastl, Veget ble Mizr Waldr Orez”
Giving judgment for Mrs. Thomas,
10 with coats, Judge Ruegg said she knew nothing about Insurable inter eats, but it was childish to suggest that Mr Hawkins, did not. In the most favourable light, Mr. Hawkins might have forgotten the law or might not have known that Mrs. Thomas was the woman's daughter-in-law and not daughter, If that was, the pro cedure of the society, the less people had to do with If the better. The Society ought to have given back every peary with compound interest and an
ology
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