YKLINE
N.
REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING FROM £79 TO £120 ON SALE.
SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.
LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via
CHICHIBU MARU
Wednesday,
TATSUTA MARU
Wednesday,
24th June. 8th July.
SEATTLE, VANCOUVER via Shanghai & Japan Ports,
HEIAN MARU
Tuesday,
30th June.
HIKAWA MARU
Tuesday,
28th July.
Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez:
KASHIMA MARU
Saturday,
27th June.
HAKONE MARU
Saturday,
11th July.
YASUKUNI MARU
Saturday,
25th July.
SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.
ATSUTA MARU
Saturday,
27th June.
KAMO-MARU........
Saturday,
25th July.
BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.
↑ HAKODATE MARU
Saturday,
27th June.
TANCO MARU
Saturday,
11th July.
SOUTH
AMERICA (West Coast) via Japaa,
Honolulu,
Tuesday,
30th June.
Monday,
13th July.
† DURBAN MARU
Sunday,
10th July.
• MORIOKA MARU
Monday,
29th June
* GENOA MARU
Tuesday,
7th July.
† AKITA MARU ...
Thursday,"
KAMO MARU' (Nagasaki direct) ... SUWA MARU
Friday,
Saturday,
18th June. 19th June. 27th June.
Carga only.
Los Angeles, Mexico and Panama. GINYO MARU
NEW YORK, BOSTON via Parma.
TATSUNO- MARU-
LIVERPOOL via Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rungoon.
SHANGHAR KOBE & YOKOHAMA:
For further information apply to:-NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 30291. Private exchange to all departments.)
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SAILINGS FROM HỌNG KONG SUBJECT
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS | Montevideo Maru
& BUENOS AIRES via La Platu Mara Saigon, Singapore, Colom bo. Burbun & Capetown.
MOMBASA.
LOURENCO MARQUES, DURBAN,
BETH &
FORT ELIZA-|
&CAPE TOWN,
K.
TO ALTERATION.
26th June
Fri., Mon.,
20th July
ZANZIBAR: Manilla, Maru
Mon.
6th July
DAR-ES-SALAAM, 'BEIRA, İ
THENCE TO RIO DE
JANEIRO & SANTOS via
Singapore & Colombo pod
BRISBANE, SYDNEY, MEL, Brisbane Maru
Mon.
6th July
BOURNE AUCKLAND &
WELLINGTON vis Manila."
JAPAN PORTS (Frequent Mitte Maru
Thurs
Services),
Seattle Maru
Wed.,
LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT- Paris Maru
Tues.,
18th June 24th June.
14th July
TERDAM & ANTWERP
vin Singapore. Colombo,
Suez & Port Said.
NEW YORK via Japan ports, Tokai Maru
Wed.,
9th July
Los Angeles & Panama.
Call Direct nt Boston,
Philadelphia & Baltimore.
BOMBAY vin Singapore, Argun Maru
Fri.,
Belawan Deli & Gulamba.
CALCUTTA via Singapore, Hamburg Maru
Thur.,
Penang & Rangoon.
HAIPHONG a finihow
Menado Maru
Thurs.,
Pakhel #Fortnighly).
via
HEELUNG Swatov & Canton Mary
Sun...
Amoy (a p.m. every Sun- Hozan Mura day).
Sun.,
Thor.
19th June
18th June:
26th Junu.
21st June 28th June
18th June
TAKAO via Swatow & Amoy Del Maru
(Fortnightly).
For further particulars please apply to:
OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA.
Telephone 25061.
THE CHINA MAIL.
AT
ITALIAN SEAMEN.
NEW CHARTER FROM FASCIST CONFEDERATION.
The National Fascist Confedera. tion of Seamen has issued a state- ment explanatory of the new en gagement contract for Italian sen
the Labour men, described as Charter.
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Shipping
Intelligence
•ATEGI ELOS MERAULT
342 DROWNED.
DISASTER TO EXCURSION
* STEAMER.
BRITISH SYMPATHY.
Sun
80 many lives in such tragic cir- cumstances."
WINDJAMMERS' RACE.
Herzogin Cecile Home From
Australia In 92 Days:
IDLE SHIPYARDS.
RECORD DEARTH OF ORDERS...
All the shipyard Trade Uniona were represented at a conference called by the employers to discuss the plight of the industry, In mail week.
for
of the
steel ships. Federation, returns showed that 87 per cent. shipbuilding firms. did not receive a single order in February, and 95 per cent. did not get an order in RET.cen
Rugby, Yesterday, The Prime Minister in a mea
French sage of sympathy to the Prime Minister on the disaster to the 'excursion steamer Saint Phili- bent, which foundered and sank in
Mr. A. L. Ayre, President of the Shipbuilding Employers' Fadern- Ope of the articles in the char- the estuary of the Loire on
"I am deeply grieved to tion, stated that the orders ter lays it down that all collec-day, enys:
hear of your terrible disaster. new ships received in the March tive contracts must contain-tory colleagues-and-1-send you our quarter were lower than in any avoid being null and void-preciso profound sympathy in the loss of similar period since the advent of standards regarding disciplinary relations, the period of probation, of the measure and payment
The latest information states wages. All the matters relating
that 842 excursionists lost their to the principal points of the con-
lives in the disaster. Sixty-nine tract have now been settled in a uniform manner, based on the ton-bodies of victims had been re- covered up to last night.-British
At the end of March 80 per cent. page of the vessels and the traffic
Wireless Service.
of the berths were unoccupied, 3 on which they are usually employ
per cent, were occupied with work ed. Two categories have there.
auspended, and 17 per cent. with fore been established, the first for
work proceeding. A number of vessels under 1,600 gross tone sall-
orders had recently been placed ing within the limits of the Medi-
by the Admiralty, but when this terranean, and the second for all
work had been started, warship otfiers. The reliefs accorded to
The four-masted ship Herzogin work in private yards would be vessels of the second category
of the amount in have only been agreed upon for a Cecile arrived at Falmouth in mail only one-tenth
Ship provisional period of one year. week, being the first home in the hand just before the War.
Was also very The article regarding salaries race for windjammers from Aus-repairing work and payment for extra work has tralia to the United Kingdom. She slack.
Last year, It was also pointed out by Mr. been fully applied, but the special has taken 92 days. features of the maritime industry when the Pommern won, the Herzo-Ayre that although the present have rendered necessary the pro-gin Cecile took 110 days, and her situation, and the outlook for the were most an- vision of a formula to conform previous quickest passage was 96 immediate future,
a mistake to with the text of the article which days in 1923.. It was remains toxious, it would be grants the right of one day's rest be seen if her time can be beaten by lauppose that British shipbuilders or the to correspond with Sunday. By a any of her competitiors In the despaired of better times
ultimate return of prosperity to new provision, seamen will be en contest. titled to annual holidays to the In charge of S. Erickssen, who is their industry. They urged, how- of age and is the lever, that to bring this about it extent of six to eight days yearly. only 27 years The charter also stipulates that. youngest skipper of the fleet, the would be necessary for all partics Cecile left Walleroo interested in the industry to dis- the seaman who has successfully Herzogin
of wheat 1 cargo
on play the same courage and deter- passed his period of probation has with
had enabled them She had falrmination as
a the right to consider himself January 23. bound sine die to the firm with ly good voyagé to Cape Horn to meet periods of difficulty in the which he obtains employment, and of 40 days, as against 32 last past. to receive, in consequence, in case
Then the trade winds were year.
No specific proposals for reduc- of cancellations of the contract favourable to the Azores, where she ing labour costs were laid before ran into a calm and drifted for five the conference, but hints were through no fault of his own, a dis- charge indemnity as well as days. Off the Azores she sighted a given that time workers' wages have notice of discharge.
four-masted barque, believed to be needed revision.. that more inter- Viking, which had had a start of change-ability of workmen in dif- 25 days.
ferent trades was desirable, and that some of the extra 'allowances ought to be reviewed.
ARRIVALS OF SHIPS.
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to
Monday, June 15. Yuan Lee, Chinese str., 1.661 tons, Capt. A. Kraukle, from Swa- tow, buoy No. 818-Yuen Seng Fat.
Tuesday, June 16. Chipshing, British str., 1,199 tons, Capt. D. S. Pethick, from Can- ton. buoy No. B22-J. M. & Co. Japara, Dutch str., 2,361 tons, Capt. E. N. J. Jentink, from Sama- rinda, Yaumat! Anchorage.--- J.C.J.L. Kumsang, British str., 5,227. tons, Captain J. H. Ferguson, from Calcutta, Kowloon Wharf. J. M. & Co.
BRITISH WUCHOW LINE Mentor, British str., 4,772 tons.
SAILING DATES FOR JUNE, 1931 (Subject to Change).'. DEPARTURE HOURS: Hong Kong 5.30 p.m., Wuchow 3 p.m.
S.S. "TAI MING"
(619 Tone-Capt. W. H. Lawton.).
Leaves
Hong Kong THURS. '18th
Arrives Wuchow
Leaves Wachow
Arrives
Hong Kong .
WED.
24th
SAT. FRI.
20th
26th
SUN.. SAT.
21st.
MON. 22nd
27th
SUN.
28th
TUES. 30th
THURS. 2nd
WED.
3rd SAT.
4th
l'orts of Call-Samshui, Shuthing, Takbing &, Doahing,
Fares Return (not including meat) $18.00.
Meals and Wines, are to be obtained on board.
Hong Kong Arrivals & Departures from Tai Hing Wharf..
For information apply to-
20, Connaught Road, West,
Phone 20893.
SANG WOd:
SHIPBUILDERS,
SHIP REPAIRERS, BOILER MAKERS, FORGE MASTERS,
OXY-ACETYLENE, AND
ELECTRIC WELDERS, MECHANICAL, AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS.
Capt. G. H. Salter, from Sin- gapore, Holt's Wharf.-B. & S. Nanchang, British str., 1,488 tons,
.
The Herzogla Cecile în ene day during the voyage did 360 miles in 24 hours, covering 17 miles in one hour. She has won the race six times, and her crew hope that this is her seventh success.
SWEDISH TANKER ON FIRE.
Abandoned In The Atlantic.
Mr. W. Sherwood, of the Gen- eral Workers' Union, for the men, promised that the statement of the employers would receive the care- ful consideration of the Unions,
CROSSING ATLANTIC AT 85.
Sir George Hunter's Call To
Young. Men.
When Sir George Hunter, the well-known shipbuilder, who is eighty-five, left Southampton in the Aquitania for New York, Sir Walter Runciman, who is one year his junior, was present to see him
off.
The Swedish motor tanker Cas- tor (8,713 gross tona) has been abandoned on fire in the Atlantic. The vessel, which carried petro- leum in bulk, was on a voyage from Curacao: for Lisbon.-
Valentia wireless station, states Lloyd's. picked up the following message from the British steam- er Fordsdale, at .9.8 a.m. G.M.T
American steamer Excalibur In an interview, Sir George Capt. H. Settle from Swatow,
proceeding assistance of Swedish said: "I am not going in anticipa buoy No. B14-B. & S.
of bringing back shipbuild- President Johnson American. str., motor vessel Castor, abandoned. tion
The business out- 15,543 tons, Capt. D. C. Austin, Ship's position lat. 39.47 N., long.ing contracts. from San Francisco, Kowloon 21.44 W.
loak. Is not bright and no silver The Castor, built at Malmo in lining Is to be seen so far. Wharf.-Dollar S.S. Line. Ryujin Maru, Japanese str., 9021028, was owned in Trelleborg.
tons, Captain Y. Wakiya, from Canton, Yaumati Anchorage.— Y. Sato & Co..
Santhia, British str., 4,841 tons, Captain Fred L. Bell, from Kobe, buoy No. A1-M. M. & Co.
Tecumseh, British str., 4,247 tons, Capt. C. Johnson, from San Pedro, Laichikok Anchorage Standard Oil Co...
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Unemployment Doubled During
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1931.
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policy of rigid economy is needed to reatere prosperity. As a coun. try and in many cases as indivi- duals we are spending our capital on daily expenses and are in fact living on our capital."
Concerning the young-men of to- Evidence of the depressed state day, Sir George sald: "I think they of shipbuilding on Clydeside is will have to make up their minds found in the fact that the output to work harder than they do at figures for Clyde yards during present, but I believe they will April totals only 8,550 tons, com- adapt themselves if they are not misled in the direction of Social- pared with over 28,000 tons launched in April of last year.am or by too much optimism. In The output for the first four other words, If they live without months of the year shows a drop of hard work they will go wrong.". nearly 90,000 tons when compar-
ed with last year's corresponding period. Few orders have been booked during the month and the percentage of unemployment has almost doubled during the last 12
WARSHIPS IN PORT
The following British warships were in harbour to-day-
Odin-In dock Olympus Kowloon "dock, Otus-In dock Parthian-Kowlook dock.
Senmew-Beuth" Sirdar-Indock."
Sterling
Tam Thrac
Hal Hein
NEW
LARGEST WHALER: LAUNCHED.
The whaling factory tanker Vest- fold, of 22,600 tons the largest in the world was launched from the Furness Shipbuilding Company's yard at Haverton Hill, on the Tees in mall week.
Built for Norwegian owners, the Vestfold will carry a small aero plane for scouting, and will be ac- companied in her Antarctic ex peditions by fleet of small whal ing. "chasers."
STEAMERS MOVEMENTS.
O a Kalyan from ived at London on midnight,
from
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Amoy
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