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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 12, 1937.
U.S.A. WATCHES PACIFIC
SHIPPING WAR
OBSTACLES TO FLOW OF WORLD TRADE
and
The American State Department on the difference in cost of operat is anxiously watching developments ing American and foreign ships. in a bitter Pacific shipping war Officials also hope to encourage the which threatens to raise new ob- building of new American ships stacles to the flow of world trade. through construction subsidies.
The department has ordered full
Complaints by the Union Steam- reports from London on the curship Company that it was being rent Imperial Conference which is subsidised out of existence," offi- reported devising new strategy in cials said, "prompted the Austra- the battle between British
lian and New Zealand labour gov American shipping interests for the
ernments to pass the restrictive trade between Australia and New legislation and begin a drive for a Zealand and west coast cities.
subsidy of their own to prevent the Officials are particularly concern- beaching of the British-owned ship ed over threats of the Australian crews. and New Zealand governments to *As a matter of fact,” one offi- ban U.S. vessels from the Tasman cial remarked, "they ought to thank Sea trade between the two domi- the American taxayers whose mon- nions in an effort to kill competi-ey makes possible the subsidised tion with British-owned lines.
Hurdles Not Wanted "We do not want any more hurdles in the way of world trade than we already have," one official explained. "Our policy is to try to open the channels of trade and keep them free so far as possible. We hope the proposed restrictions by Australia and New Zealand will not be put into effect.”
operation of the Matson vessels for giving them a swell ferry service between Australia and New Zea- land.
He said the principal government motive for keeping the American ships running to those lands at the bottom of the Pacific is to main- tain a position "against Japanese competition.
"Great Britain and the United States really should gang up in that outside territory," he added, "or soon neither will have anything left."
This official said the American' and British governments were' "dragged by the tail" into the com- mercial row which had caused "a lot of sharp words and sword rat- tling." He blamed "wild labour vessels had captured 80 per cent. He pointed out that Japanese governments" of the dominions
of the trade between India and for precipitating the controversy Japan, which used to be a British against the wishes of London.
monopoly. and Developments came thick fast after the American-owned Mat- son Line gained the upper hand in a long rivalry with the British- owned Union Steamship Company and the
Canadian - Australian Steamship Company.
Route Abandoned
FISH MYSTERY
Thousands Die At Naval Dockyard
Millions of dead and dying fish Blaming competition of the American subsidised
of every sort littered the surface of ships for heavy loses, the Union
the Naval Dockyard Basin at Simon- line last
day of death for year announced abandonment of its stown during Sydney-Wellington-San Francisco
the inhabitant
of the sea. route and the Canadian-Australian Along the water's edge stretched company said, it might have to a solid line of thousands of crabs abandon its Sydney-Auckland-Van- of every variety and colour, which had left the water and clung to the
couver · route.
A report to the imperial shipping masonry of the sea wall. conference forwarded to the State Mackerel, crawfish, " crabs-all. Department points out that the seemed to have been affected by Metson Line's share of the passen- some strange disease. They ap- ger traffic jumped from less than peared to have difficulty in breath- one-fifth before 1930 to three-fifths ing, and in many cases dashed along last year."
the surface with their heads out of
in
on
The Matson Line, based on con- the water, gasping for breath. siderable government subsidies and The view is held that there has on the closed traffic from the been some discharge of sulphur or United States to Hawaii, has ex-similar gas through the bed of the ploited the more distant sources of sea in the basin which has poison- traffic," the British" report said.ed the fish. Coloured labourers have “It has done so by supplying super eaten many of the victims without speeds and luxury. No service on any ill-effects, lower standards of speed and amenity can compete with
This mystery, the like of which anything like equal terms, even for has not been seen within the living traffic of local Pacific origin,”
memory of the oldest fishermen, will The British-conference consider be investigated by the Fisheries ed plans for subsidizing the build-Department, it is understood. ing of two new liners at a cost of $12,500,000 to compete with the Matson sister liners, Mariposa and Monterey, put into service in 1982, as well as closing the Tasman sea trade to the American ships.
Pa Government Subsidy The Matson line vessels
subsidy
char
The R.M.S. "Empress of Asia” is due at Nagasaki to-day at 2.00 p.m. and leaves for Shanghai and Hong Kong to-morrow at 5.30 a.m.
Reuben Schenzvit, an estate agent, and Abdul Kader an Arab ̧ villager in about his employ, who were charged with the murder of Jacob Zwanger, a Jewish engineer, were committed for trial at the assizes at the conclusion of the preliminary trial in Jaffa,
$1,250,000 year through mail. ontracts. This will be to direct operating sub- sidy when the mail contracts pire July 1
new mai
working
commission now-
letails of the subsidy plan,
Serious foods are threatening. Fair banks, Alaska, through the Rivers Ta- putrana and Chena
blocked
with ice.