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BORNEO MARU
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Wednesday, 23rd February.
Friday, 25th February.
Saturday, 6th February.
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Thursday, 24th February.
NEW YORK-Vila Japon porta, San Francisco, and Panama.
HAVRE MARU...(From Shanghai) Thursday, 10th February. JAPAN PORT
BATAVIA MARU
ALASKA MARU
KEELUNG Vin, SWATOW & AMOY.
HOZAN MARU
KANO MARU
TAKAO Via SWATOW & AMOY,
KOTSU MARU
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RYUKO MARU
Friday, 28th January.
Saturday, 12th February.
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Thursday, 10th February, 3 a.m:
Saturday, 29th January.
Middle of January.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
SHIPPING SECTION.
THE NEED FOR FASTER SHIPS.
PASSENGER LIST.
DEPARTURE. :
Among the rst-class passengers who sailed from Hong Kong for Manila on the "President Jackson" on Jan. 27 were:----
ATLANTIC RIVALRY,000, would give a total of 26,800,000
for that year. 14
This, he said, in the premium paid Mr. and Mrs; E G. Anderson, to Insure a foreign trade amount- Mrs. BG. Anderson, Miss Vera. ing to 2800,000,000; the premium Burger Mr. W. W. Baer, Miss Bhu rate on this basis being less than Wong-mal Mr. and Mrs. C. W The Benedict. Mr. And Mrs..O.. G. Brown, a quarter of 1 per cent. amount, he added, is less than 26 (Mr. E R. Cutting, Mrs. G. W. Clark, cents per capita and less than one- Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Cox, Mr. H. half of 1 per cent. of cut total taxa-Dickinson, Miss J. G. Dilworth, Mr. The sending, of Shipping J. Ellis, Mr. and Mrs. S. Frieder, tion. Board tonnage to the Gulf during Mise A. Hanagan, Miss D. Hawes, the recent crisis, he said, had, ac- Mr. and Miss E. Iserson, Mr. F. and cording to qualified economists, Miss E. Liongson. Mrs. J. T. Mason, austafbed the market for grain and Miss A. & Maybew, Mr. S. A. Moss,. cotton to an amount of between Mr. O. E. Nelson, Miss F. Purdy, £180,000,000, Miss H: Rietvelt, Mr. R. S. Rogers, $120,000,000 and
UNITED STATES HANDICAP.
Construction of cargo vessels, of modern type and higher speed in order to enable the US Merchant Marlie to meet foreign competition was advocated by Brigadier-General the A, C. Dalton, president of Emergency Fleet Corporation, in his addros before the New York Board of Trade and Transportation, which would have been suffered as Rev. & Mrs, S. G. Ruegg. Mrs. J. L. "The disposition of the people to a loss lad the markete not been Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. A. Z. Syclp, regard the presunt fect as adequate properly supported by ocean trans-Mr. J. W. Todd Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Thompson, Mr. G Trowartha, 'Mr. is a handicap in the development of portation.
Ships Diverted:
H. Uyeda, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. our Merchant Marine," he said.
"Our constwise and intercoastal Walters, Mr. M. W. Vaughn, Mr. E. " regard the" present fleet as
Mr. Philbin added Cathomas, Corp. A. L. Hendrickson, merely an emergency creation... service," such as the army encampments and naturally form a reserve which Mr. and Mrs. V. H. Loewenthal, Mr. should be available to carry peak. Pala Singh, Mrs. L. W. Holden, Dr. other war-time developments.
"We have at present 327 ships leads in other trades. If this were J. F. Watson, Dr. D. B. Macqueen, operating in 25 services against: true, the coastwise and intercoastal Rov. and Mrs. R. T. Schaefer, Mrs. foreign competition.
services to-day might have stopped D. W. J. and Miss M. Sutton, Mrs. Vessels with a speed of only nine into the picture to relieve the situa N. and Miss C. Becman, Mrs. M. tion in the Gulf. However, the Farley, Mrs. P. P. Winnt, Mias E. or ten knots, whereas their com
owners naturally are going to place Cooper.. Mise L. Ankeny, Miss H, S. petitors have Diesel-engined ves- sela with a peed of 15 or 10 knots. their tonnage into the trades that Perkins, Miss M. Baucher, Mr. and are profitable, and we find, as a Mrs. R. H. Steininger, Dr. T. H. The result is that, the foreign ves-
result of this, that. 17 operators Coole, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lacey sels get the high-grade freight and
have withdrawn 35 ships from the and family, Mr. W. Hing Taylor, we get the leavings. One might as well try to compete against a rail Intercoastal and constwise services Mr. Y. Iida, Mr. Lee C. Chuan, Miss road with an team service. and placed them in the United King-3. E. Budd, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. de However, we are gradually building dom, Mediterranean, and other re-Villier, Mr. M. Marcetto, Mise S. FL. up a sense ameng.our foreign coregions due to the British coal strike. de Villers, Mr. Al M. Amend, Mr. petitors that America is coming into her own on the seas.
OX
Thego àre
What Competing Nations Have
.. Learnt.
Thus we see that if the Shipping Wee Ah-yu, Mrs. Mak S-hong, Mr. Board did not bear a hand in the E. Fernandez, Mr. G. Evans, Father Gulf cotton and grala movement J. 3. Toomey, Mr. Ong Kong-Buy, under present conditions this move- Mr. Uy Foon,, Mr. A. Gutierrez, Mr.. could be practical yparalysed. W. Clement
SINGAPORE BASE.
VIEWS OF A RETIRED
ADMIRAL..
"The older nations of Europe and also our younger competitors in. the Orient Australia and South America have learned that the only sure means of their exports reach, ing a favourable market and their imports being carried with regu-
On December 11, the Spectator Jarity at "reasonable rates, is the control of their own shipping. We published an article on the Singa- have now reached that stage of pore naval base. In the following our industrial development in which week's issue, Admiral G. A. Ballard (retired) makes the following. "ob- we are faced with the necessity of Anding foreign markets for our Bur-servations on this question: plus products and of establishing
trade' relations.
"It fell to my lot, as Assistant- Director of Naval Intelligence at the Admiralty during the Russo- Japanese, War, to prepare the Ad miralty report on the lessons re- garding sea fortresses to be learnt from the story of Port. Arthur: This report was approved by the Government and-formed the basis of the instructions under which the specially appointed Owen Commit tee revised the scale of sea defence works at all fortified' ports and an-
The necessity for creating a fire department is never impressed upon a community until there has been some disastrous. fre. No mer- chant marine crisia has faced our people since the world war until the far-reaching effects of the present British coal strike deprived our shippers at a crucial period of the service of foreign flag shipping, for the moying of their seasonal pro-chorages in the United Kingdom ducts. This crisis has clearly de- and Crown Colonies. I may claim, monstrated to what extent we may therefore," dome acquaintance with
this particular subject. depend upon foreign shipping in emergency, and to what degree we are dependent upon an American fing merchant marine."
Part of National Defence. Profita derived from the move-1 ment of cotton and grain from Gulf ports. by Shipping. Board vessels during the recent emergency have been etsimated by a representative of the Gulf shipping interests. General Dalton said. at from £2,000,000 to £3,000,000. He added that many telegrame" had been re- ceived from Southern Senators and Representatives commending the. action of the board, and promising legislative support for the Ameri- can merchant marine.
An Imperial Question.. "For myself I entirely agree with your view that this is emphatically An Imperial question, in which, some at least of the oversea Dominions are vitally interested, and I am glad to see the prominence accorded to it by the Spectator." But I differ altogether from the contention that the problem of Singapore offers any prospective parallel to the case of Port Arthur, or that we may: anticipate the necessity of sending many divisions of troops to hold Singapore in war.
"The Japanese were able to in- vest Port, Arthur in overwhelming force only because they had first driven the Russian Fleet complete Referring ton recent statement ly off the sea, and held it under to the effect that it did not matter close watch. That meant that their whether the merchant ships were own sea route to Port Arhtur was operated under the American flag absolutely safe for the conveyance or not, General Dalton said the of attacking troops in any numbers American merchant marine must be they pleased, while their enemy was considered part of the national cut off from sending any reinforce- defence. "During the war emer-ments whatever to the defenders. gency, he said, the "Leviathan" had Moverover, the Japanese line of sea communication was short enough made a contribution of service un-
for a limited volume of transport to equalled by any other vessel, as she
compete with the traffic. And carried a total of 12,000 troops on
lastly, the troopships. were voyage after voyage.
threatened by the danger of sub- marines, which in those days did
not exist.
In conclusion, General Dalton pointed to the importance of deve loping tidewater terminals as the connecting link between land and sea transportation systems, and said there was great need for the establishment of three or four free ports such as have been established in Europe. "We are looking for ward," he added. "to the adoption of a building programme that will Kive Americs the right kind of ships to meet foreign competition on theed that stage, the safety of Singa
high seas."
"All this would be different in the case of Singapore. It would be a mad enterprise for the Japanese to send a huge army aergas the 8,000 miles of sea separating Japan from the Straits of Malacca unless the British Navy had first been destroyed or reduced to impotence, battlefleets, submarinos, and all. But it matters had already reach-i
port would have dwindled to a mere side issue in a general catas- trophe overtaking the whole Em- pire.
Fleet Value. Mr. J. Harry Philbin, vice-prest dont of the Fleet Corporation, who followed General Dalton, said the Right Position Absolutely
Essential, maintenance of an American mer-
"You raise the question of sub chant marine is in effect an in- surance to American shippers of stituting a base in Australia for reasonable rates for ocean trans-Singapore. But may I point out portation. "A fair estimate of the that the whole object of creating a value of the fleet actively employed first-class naval base on the east in 1925, he said, would be £15,000,- side of the Indian Ocean is to meet
the requirements of a fleet statial 000. Interest and depreciation on
ed to protect the Imperial lines of this valuation at 10 per cent., he
communication in that ocean said, would make an annual capital against an attack from the Pacific charge of 41,500,000, which, added
which must necessarily be deliver
to the operating deficit of 24,800,-ed through the Malay Archipelago?
And the frat absolute essential for a naval base is that it must be in
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MOVEMENT OF STEAMER.
The .v. "Delh!" (Swedish East Asiatic Co, Ltd.) left Antwerp on Jan. 25, and is due here on or about March 2.
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