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AIR OR SEA ?
The Vital Part Played by Our Ships
SPEED AND COST
A
The everlastingly vital part played by ships, in competition with air transport, WAR point dwelt
Commander upon by Sir Dennistoun Burney, Bart., C.M.G., R.N. (retired), in a lecture to the Royal Empire Society on "Empire Communications."
concern of the Air Force rather than of the Navy, and we should, therefore, reorganise our system to meet this change.
defence
At present the two Services over- lap considerably in their functions. with a consequent waste of money and material. I suggest that con- siderable saving could be made on the Admiralty Voto if the Services were amalgamated and the Admiral- ky and Air Ministry were recon- stituted as a single department. Such an arrangement would save us, I think, at least £10,000,000 a year without in any way weakening our naval efficiency, and this sum could be devoted to a scheme of air de- velopment for the Empire.
It goes without saying that the establishing of a complete system of Empire air communications will be
a lengthy and difficult business. Accordingly, any polley which is
Mr. Frederick Montague, M.P., Under-Secretary of State for Air, finally adopted by the British and was in the chair,
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Commander Burney, inter alia,, to go practically the whole way by suid:-The transport of freight | sea.
Dominion Governments should be given full time to mature. 1 sug- gast, therefore, that a scheme should be laid down to cover a period of ten years, with the idea of estab- lishing within that time a daily mail and passenger service between Great Britain and every Dominion.
has reached a point beyond which Even if the Dominions had al-
For this purpose I do not hesitate no great improvement can be ex-ready reached an advanced stage of to advocato an annual expenditure pected. So far as we can see, the economic development, and had built by the British Government of great volume of freight will al-up a great system of trunk railways £10,000,000. The Impetus that such waya be transported by sea vessels, after the manner of the United and these would seem to have very States, this would not help towards Industries of the Empire will more a scheme will give to the trade and
nearly reached their limit as regards & solution of our Empire, com- than repay US for the outlay. speed. The 20 year old Mauretania, munications problem; all it would Besides, the schema itself, if pro- for example, was the fastest ocean do would be to emphasise more than perly organised and administered, liner until last year, when she was ever the necessity of finding A would soon be able to pay its way
speedier means of inter-State inter-as a commercial enterprise. I would here point out, however, course than that provided by the
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• CHICHIBU MARU
Wednesday, Friday,
* Maiden Voyage from Yokohama, TATSUTA MARU
Monday,
SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.
MISHIMA MARU
SIDERIA MARU
Friday, Saturday,
2nd April 4th April.
14th Aprli.
4th April. 10th April.
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.
KATORI MARU
ATSUTA MARU
TANGO MARU
AKI MARU
5th April.
Saturday, Saturday, 19th April.
Wednesday, 25th March. Wednesday, 23rd April.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
MANILA
TENYO MARU
BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
†TOTTORI MARU
Question of British Contract
that as regards the transport of comparatively slow method of sea HULUTAO HARBOUR freights, apced is relatively unim-transport. Now this fact that, in portant compared with cost, as the regard to Empire distances, air- only loss incurred in a cargo of non-craft have to compete not with rela- perishable goods taking, say, two tively quick land travel, but with, montha in transit instead of two the slower sea travel, greatly adds days is the loss of interest on the to their speed value; and this is value of the cargo during the time one of the chief facts that makes air of transit.
development of such importance to the British Empire.
:
It is far otherwise with persons and mail. Here the question of time is all-important, and there is an urgent and continuous desire for thair transport speed to be increased to an almost unlimited degree. I were asked to fix an economic
If
limit to this increase of speed I Wednesday, 26th March at 4 p.should suggest about a 1,000 miles an hour, as at that speed It would Thursday, 27th March.
be possible to reach any portion of the earth's surface during the 12 hours rest and recreation period in each day.
SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,
Mexico & Panama. GINYO MARU
Saturday, 5th April. SOUTH AMERICA (East Coast) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,
KANAGAWA MARU
NEW YORK. BOSTON via Panama.
↑ KAKO MARU
TOBA MARU
Saturday,
5th April.
Friday.
28th March. Thursday, 3rd April. Wednesday, 16th April.
Monday, 14th April.
Tucaday,
Monday,
29th March.
31st March.
Thursday.
27th March.
+ LISBON MARU
LIVERPOOL. via Port Said, Constantinople. Genoa.
CALCUTTA vin Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.
SHANGHAI KORE & YOKOHAMA.
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† AKITA MARU
HAKONE MARU
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HAMBURG. ROTTERDAM & ANTWERP Via Singapore Colombo, Suez and Port Bald. ALASKA MARU
Monday, 21st April,
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Vla Saigon. Slagapore,
Colombo. Durban & Cape Town. BUENOS AIRES MARU ........... HOMBAY-Via Singapore & Colombo.
MEIGEN MARU
SHUNKO MARU
Friday, 26th April.
Saturday, 22nd March, Thursday, 3rd April, DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM,
BAR & HOMBABA-Via Singapore & Colombo.
.... Monday, 31st March.
CANADA MARU
CALCUTTA Via Singapore, Penang & Bangoen.
TACOMA MARU
Friday, 4th April
Nanking, Yesterday. The work for the construction of the Hulutao Harbour will begin on April 1, the date according to the contract with the Netherlands Har- If the air communications of the bour Works Company of Amster- Empire were to be developed, then dam. The question regarding the
A Government Subsidy
a Government subsidy
was neces-Chinese-British contract will be set- sary, argued Commander Burney,tled as soon as the British Minister
WARSHIPS IN PORT
British warships in port this morn.
of R.N. Dockyard:
Herold.
and he added:-This involves two arrives at Nanking.-Canton News auch a subsidy justified? main questions. The first is: Is Agency.
The seccond, which is a three-fold ques- tion, is, If the subsidy is justified, what amount should it be, how should it be raised, and how spent? Lng were The first question
In Basin I have already The Immediate Future
tried to answer.
I have tried to Tamar, Bridgewater, Seamen, Iroquois, This is a speed, however, 230 establish three points: That the miles per hour greater thap the speeding up of our Empire com-
North Arm: Sepoy, Sandwich. West Wall: Suffolk. velocity of sound, and though recent munications is of the utmost im-
In Dock: Moth. experiments seem to indicate that portance to all the member States there is a possibility of achieving of the British Commonwealth; that it in the far distant future, the day this can only be done by means of when such a speed may become pos-air transport; and that aircraft are sible is so remote that it is not worth technically capable of achieving it. considering at the present time. If those points accepted, there can be no question, I think, but that public money spant in the endeavour to put civil aviation on its feet is money well spent,
It
concern our-
is more profiable to selves with what is likely to be at tained in the immediate future.
Now a glance at the means of locomotion at our disposal to-day makes it quite clear that the only method of speeding up communica- tlon les in aviation. Excluding aviation, there are three main forms of transport and travel in use to day: railways and motor transport over land, and the steamship on the
No. 7 Buoy: Serapis No. 13 Buoy: Somme. Foreign men-o'-war in port werai- U.S. gunboat Mindanao.
French Gunboat Argus Chirese Training Ship Tung Chi Chinese Gunboat Klen Yu Portuguese Cruiser Adamastor. French Destroyer Vessel Marne,
MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS
As regards our second three-fold question: What amount should the
The Ben Line 8.8. "Bennevis". Government subsidy be, how should
from Middlesbro', Immingham, it be raised, and how spent? The London, Straits and Manila is due setting up of an Empire air scheme to arrive here on March 25. of the kind we have been соп
The Ben Line B.s. Bengloe" from templating will involve · a
large Middlesbro',
Antwerp, the burden la London and Straits left Singapore Dunkirk, capital outlay, and not one which Great Britain can for this port on March 21, and is bear alone. Nor should she be ex- The system will be an pected to. Imperial one from which the Dominions and the Crown Colonies will derive as much benefit as the It is signicant that the average Mother Country. The burden of speed of express trains In Britain cost should, therefore, fall on the is one mile per hour less to-day Empire as a whole, each member than it was at the turn of the cen-State contributing according to its
water. As I have already pointed out, there does not seem much koi- hood of the steamship being able to increase her present speed to any appreciable extent; and the same re- mark applies to railways.
The inherent speed pos- capacity.
tury. ZANZI-sibilities of motor transport are So far, the Dominions have al- greator, but it will not be possible ways shown a readiness to co-oper- to utilise these speeds for ordinary ate with the Mother Country in any road transport; so that the motor | big scheme which has for its object car is hardly likely to supersede the the consolidation of the Imperial fabric; in fact, of late years the utterances of our Dominions states- men have often shown a boldness of
FICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER~Via Japan Ports from train as the fastest method of land
Shanghai.
ARIZONA MARU (from S'hai)... Tuesday, 15th April. MELBOURNE-Yia Manila, Brisbane & Sydney.
MADRAS MARU ............................................. Monday, 7th April.. GAIPHONG Via Holbow & Pathol
NEW YORK-Via Japan porta, San Francisco & Panama.
HAVRE MARU
JAPAN PORTS.
SEATTLE MARU
INDUS MARU (Via Amoy)
KEELUNG Via Swator & Amoy.
HOZAN MARU
CANTON MARU
TAKAO-Via BWATOW & AMOT.
DELI MARU
TAKAO & KEELUNG.
BATAVIA MARU.
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Clearly then, as compared with the maximum working speeds of all | conception and an understanding of other forms of transport known to
Empire needs which are sadly to
We may be quite sure, therefore, that if Great Britain takes the lead and Invites the Dominions to co- operate with her in establishing a system of Imperial air communica tions, the response will be prompt and generous.
us, aircraft are immeasurably seek among our statesmen at home. faster: Even the sirehip which is the slowest type of aircraft will al- most certainly tain a cruising speed of from 90 miles an hour in the near future: which means that it will be twice as fast as the average speed of the fastest mode of land transport, and three times na fast as the fastest steamship.
Steamships and 'Aircraft
But how, it may be asked, will · Great Britain, with her already ex- cesolve burden of taxation, be able Comparing steamshipa" with air-to find the money to start the craft, the lecturer remarked:-In scheme? My answer is that the estimating the speed value of air sum needed could be saved on the |craft as an aid to Improving our | cetimates of our fighting Services.
Empire communications, we have to At the present time our defence remember that aircraft will be com Budget costs us the huge sum of peting not with rallways and motor | £120,000,000 annually. Out of the transport, but with the very much | £20,000,000 allotted to the Air Vote ́alower steamship. What I mean is, from this sum only a paltry 2600,- that the problem of inter-State com 000 is devoted to the development munications within the Empire has of civil aviation. At the moment, hitherto been a ses problem, not a however, I am not concerned with land problem, and but for the ad- the wasted uses, to which the Air vent of aircraft it would to a very | Vóte is being put under the present great extent always have remained dispensation, but with the possibili Bo If we want to go from Lonty of saving money from the defence don to Canada or the West Indies | roten as a whole.
we must make the entire journey by | We have to remember that
son. -- If a Canadian wishes to go to advant of ainers
South Africa or Australia he must
| do likewise. And though it may be possible. ...ons - day for Pa Briton going 13 India or South Africa or own Australia to save time, by do- ing most of the Zli
and at
venient way of d
due to arrive here on March 26.
Anxious to dodge the cold spell which suddenly descended upon the country, 460 cruise passengers, ceking warmer climes, left South- ampton by the White Star liner gantic on a pleasure cruise to Spain, Northern Africa and the Mediterranean.
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