THE MINING OF THE F & O **MALOJA.”*
BESQUE STEAMER BLOWN UP.
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As announced in our cable columns at the time, the mail steamer Maloja, the largest in the P and O. Company's feet sank be tween Folkestonn. and Dover on February 97th about half an hour after a violent ex plosion, apparently caused by a mino, The British tank steamer Empress of Fort William also sank.
BRITAIN AND RUSSIA,
TIES OF AFFECTION BETWEEN THE COUNTRIES.
Do write, and say that all this talk about the Russiaus cooling down towards England is pure rubbish" (chisty vsdør), So vaid Mr. Rodzianko, the Prendent ut the Data, as we were sitting talking.
THE LIONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, APRIL But 1916;"
SHIPPING CRISIS. SOLUTION OF URGENT PROBLEM
WANTED.
THE SPECTRE OF RHEINƏ. REMINISCENCE OF A BURIED TEMPLE.
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VISIT TO THE FRENCH FRONT: How many persons realise that we can-
The attention of half the minds of France. not hope to win this war unless the present Mr. Bernard Pares writes from Petroacute shipping situation is faced before and England is still concentrated on the matters become worse, and a solution be front that stretches from the North Sen to grid to the Daily Telegraph':
found satisfying at once our own needs Switzerland, where a million and aquar- and those of our Allics, asks the Durly for of our men are guarding the temporary frontier, until the time comes to make a Telegraph.
There is a widespread impression that fresh one. So much has been written on war is a matter of sailors and, soldiers, what is happening there and what it looks provided with a certain amount of equip like that it is rather a thankless task to The falaja, which was bound for Bom
mentships, guns, and ammunition. It is attempt to write anything new until so
In warfare evory new things are done (says Mr. A. While I was at the front it was differta profound mistake.
Beaman, Lay, had over 400 persen, on board, among
writing From Paris) them over 40 women and nearly 20 children
At 10.30 in the morning the Mange was for me or for anyone else there to under-factor in national life must participate. H
be informed from time steaming down channal. The children were stand all the excitement that there has heen. Even the term sea power is misunderstood but it is as well that the public pengers were carrying in playing happily on the deck, and all the England on this subject. At may point Sex power," as Mr. W. S. Abell, the should hands in case of any hidden danger, Sud-netly the opposite of that ascribed to marked in his briliant James Watt annivers that all is still progressing in due and Russia in the English newspapers. It was versary lecture the other day, is a com regular course, and to that end the Fronch cantile maring with the military navy tive of the foreign Press to visit a portion blow in the side of the second saloon, and always a simple pleasure for an Engishbination of a healthy commerce and mer-War Öfisò frequently invites representa
man to be there, but latterly much more so, 20 minutes inter the Malejo had dis-Galicin was a great lesson, and our way, which ensures by fore of arms such proof the freswept zone that they may tel. appeared beneath th water. Before she the slow way, was wore and more ap-tection as will enable the harmed vessels their renders how the fort is held, how the trench is dug, and, in short, how, the snak she completely turn art, and for apreciated. Besides that the army knows to carry out their proper functions."
It is no good this country and its Allies money is spest second or two her keel was visible above in detail what cannot be known to the gone. the surface. Then apparently, according ral public-the volume of substantial help having command of the sea unes they and an eye-witnesses on shore, there was a second that has already been supplied by Eng. we can take full advantage of that condi- explosion-probably from the boilers, and land. No one doubts that the war wil be tion-in short, enjoy the benefits of rapid sea transport nt reasonable prices. We while under water the vessel righted her won, and people think that England will
the control the maritime communications of the world, but, owing to various causes, neither self, her masts became visible, and then she have a large and kirger share in
winning of it
we nor the Allies are able to obtain full went in the boltum.
economic, military, and political advant age from our united success.
lenly there was a terrific exp'asion, which
"THE CAPTAIN'S FINE EXAMPLE. The scene on deck immediately after the explosion was in accordones with the best raditions of British sequen. There was absoluto calm, Captain Irving, R.N.R., on the bridge, was absolutely cool himself, and set an example to the officers, pas sengers, and crew which they followed to a man, It was not a pleasant scene, Several children had been blown to picces by the explosion, but there was not the slightest vign of panic.
The captain and officers stuck by the ship to the last, Though they were all saved, not one of them left the ship in the bouts. They were all picked up out of the water. Some swan to the rescuing craft, Others who could not swin managed to reach one or other of the Bluating infls. The captain from the bridge directed the lowering of the boats and called an everybody to keep crim.
- PETROGRAD AND THE FRONT. For those who cannot command a ready use of Russian, the main source of infor- wation must be translations from the news- papers. Here ons is not conversing, one is being talked to; and the Russian Press gives the colour of its country less than umat others. Petrograd, whose Press view are the most accessible, has not yet wholly ceased to he Petersburg; it is hardly in Russia, and retains much of its old Ger- man environment. In peace time last the centre of action; now it is not mass of the nation's energy has streamed even that; for, with universal service, the to the front and, except for subsidiary war work, Petrograd is now given over to. talking. It represents that part of the Country which has not gone to the fron and gives no proper perspective of Russia.
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A SUGGESTED REMEDY. That is the fact which confronts us and a romedy must be found immediately. We cannot wait and see No tinkering will suffice; we oust have bold weasures. There is a shortage of ships and a failure to make the best possible use of such tonnage as is available. The cure for the trouble must be radical: URO for
1. Unity of ontrol by a strong com mittes exercising authority over the whole British mercantile marine, whereas at present there are about half-a-dozen authorities, and resultany confusion, & Ministry of Shipping. fact. must be established, as powerful as the Ministry
of Munitions, a
3. A higher scheme of taxation of excess war profits. At present the State takes 50 per cent of the excess profits; in the conditions which exist the equity. of a higher impost on hardly be con texted This country and the other nations asso-
One of the conditions attached to the privilego is that no letters shall be des patched antil they have been submitted to the scrutiny of the Ministry of War. Jot tings may, however, be made to be used afterwards, and so, on returning from the latest of these tours. I open my note-book to write my parable. But the firs, dis jeintel impressions are crisper than ampli- fication could ronke them, so I simply trans- literate from the pencilings of my note. book, as follows:-
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We meet at the Gare de l'Est at eight in a reserved carriage, in charge of a French captain who speaks English as well as mot of us and batter than seme, bears one of the bravest names is France, and proves to be a soldier and a gentleman in every one of his seventy-two inches. Al ten o'clock ive are at Epernay, and are placed in motoy cats for Rheims, where we arrive after half an hour's spin through dwarf forests of vinds tied to counties; split shingles, knee-high. spectre of the cathedral loam, up out of the nist with Turnerosque offect as we 2. The fixing of maximum freight top the Rheims chain of hills, and in ten ABAKAN.. The front is heart and soul in the war
rates based, it may be, on the requisi.inute we are in front of the statue of Jeanne d'Arc, which stands unscarred over tioning rates now in foren until it is won, and equally so for friend. When the starboard of the shipship with England; and the front is the
again the wrecked porticos. The Maid of Orleans seems to have bequeathed to her tona inage the charm she enjoyed against was right under water," says one loan whopation in arms. But England is not ess
the shafts of war, as the street leading up was on board, "I saw the captain still the enthusiasm of all the most repro enta-
to the square and the walls of the Lion hanging on the bridge, and his example tive workers in the public life of the coun
d'Or are pitted. when not badly torn or End a wonderful effect on the passongers try, The English friendship is an instinct of lone growth, and is almost universal.
altogether shattered, by shell splinters and the crew."
Let me say emphatically that it is bound
Thirty feet high round the basement. One paint which deserves special pro- winenc was the behavisur, of the lascur up with the whole direction which Rusiciated with it are at war; they are fighting masonry of the cathedral is shielded with
devis'opioent, political and economic, - has crew. They were quite as coo as the Buro-taken during the last fifty years, of which not for a little thing, but for their very sad bags, but not one of the statuettes. peans on board.
"There behaviour was eighteen have been the object of my close existence; they must have ships, and have that fill the interstices between the pilas At Lors seems to have escaped. A verger lets agnificent." Out of 203 Inscars on board study. Those who will follow out the facts them cheaply, if they are to win.
Cardiff this work M. le Bas, the acting us in, and begins to patter big fale; but the French Vice.Consul, declared that British empty naves and transepts and the pierced time charterers, and not nentral ship roof and windows are more cloquent in owners were mainly responsible for the their bruised and dumb appeal. Scuffers high freights, and he contended that it are wont to exelniu against the outery was criminal that excessive wealth should made over the savage bombardment of the he mads out of the fears and blood of cathedral: Are not the lives of ten sol- France and Italy" However that may be,diers worth more than the most priceless the truth is that we are or may soon be relics of art?" The only answer to be little better off than the people of France given to such is that they have not seen The sacrilege. The interior i filled with and Italy, who are suffering grievously; and un'es a remedy for the present state an indescribable cold, and a mort and of affairs is found speedily, the cause for physical shiver seize one. It is reminds which we are struggling may be imperil. cent of Egyptian baried temples, led. That is a sober statement of fact, and it is time, after eighteen months of w that the Government realised it
only 80 appear to have been saved.. for instance, in the last volums of the Cam
ONE BOAT ON TOP OF ANOTHER.
bridge Modern History will see that it Only a few boats could be lowered, and could not be otherwise English friendship the heavy sea that was running nude reis an instinct on which I can depend in seno work very difficult, The majority of every conversation which I have with a the people saved were on the rafts, of which Russian; and I have always found that the the ship carried a good number. One sailor measure of a Rustan's faith in the free development of his country, untramulled said that he did not believe any of the by the old fetters of German dominance out women and children would have lost their side and at here, is the measure of his
England lives but for the fact that one bon a ready friendship with England. in the water drifted under another which intimately associated with every asping was being lowered. The second boat cametion of a patriotic Russian for his coun- down on top of the first and capsized it.try's future his church life, his political So far as he could see only one or two of and economic development, his Slavonie the people in the heat were picked up. The foreign policy. There was never a more passengers had practised lifeboat drill the previous evening and knew exactly what to do in case of danger.
A DOUBLE ESCALE.
ENGINES GOING WHEN THE SHIP BANK
natural lie between two countries, and the Russian saw this long before we did,
THE PROFESSIONAL AN
founda
A DESECRATED HOLY PLACE.
hand of the sculpter of five centuries ago jor mãe. A freak that is almost a miracle. Bebre we leave we are taken to the mus, it is styled forlorn
One comes out of the raw, unbeautiful street into a decorated holy place. Swept into many hops are piles of whip the No one can fail to be impressed in or
with unconscious pathos, calls the verger, dinary conversation, first, with the pride tears of lead. These are the settings of which the people of this country-take in
the stained glass windows. Only one triple set of coloured windows rausins almost For this renew a the best mon in the the mercantile marino and the admiration A soldier who was on his way to Gibraltar country are working hard for victory and they have for the enterprise and business intact, over the entrance to the sacristy. bad an experience very emiar to that of for the permanence of the English alliance, ability of shipowners who have created it; In the centre aisle, opposite the principal ono of the survivors from the hospital ship What is left? For Mr. Washburn (war and. sembily, with the general feeling pulpit, there is also a crucifix that zone Anglia. He jumped from the ship and correspondent of The Times in Russia), if that shipowner, ought as patriotic men of the she is bas touched. All the rest is swam to one of the rescuing vessels. As he he mistook his perspective, was too good which they are to recognise that at such more or less ruin. This is the more extra was lifted on to the deck of this vessel, a
a moment they are servants of a State ordinary, because in the roof there is In journalist to write without any trawler, it struck another mine and sanktion. There are, to start with, the old pro facing a grave crisis a State, moreover, seurtely a hole larger than a man's hand
all almost inediately, but again to soldier German influences, which could not
disappear at once, and of which some are which by its foresight in taking over 80 but the shock was suficient to reduce the was recened.
fortified in streng places. But Mr. Washper cent, of the risks of war relieved interion to chas. Words can scarcely con. vey a picture of the effect. The banquet ball is a mere dust heap, but strangely buru, who has earlier done justice to their them from possibility of loss.
CONDITIONS OF CONFUSION. At present all is wafusion. The indus perfect. Facing a huge chasm 20 square After the explosion cccurred the engines power, was not speaking of them. There
is a lovely bis relief of the visit of the were stopped and then reversed with a view remains the average professional men of
normal conditions. The Admiralty needs 16 taking the way off the ship. The boats, the towns who have not gone to the war-try is unorganised. War has upset all the feet in the north wall, in an inner passage
sone of whom give the colour of their own which had been ready for lowering from changing hoods to the Russian Press; and ships, so does the Way Office, so does the Magi framed in a pare Gothic archway. the time the vessel ft London, were often, as all Russians are natura iv ezili- Board of Trade, so dues the Sugar Com-as fresh looking as if it had just left the launched immediately, and as many pas-nt, une will niet echoes of these views mission, so does the Board of Agriculture.
passible got into them. Unfortu- clsewhere,
It is not suggested, of course, that there sengers as o
nately, however, the engines could not be
This class is for from unimportant, and is no inter communication, but the arrange stopped again, and they were actually go-
to fd here a hundred or two of the heads Sng astern at the time the bont sank. The it is most desirable that it should remain ments for co-ordination, as every ship collétion of scad debris. It is carins
Governmental engine-room was very quickly flooded, so firm to the English friendship. But how isping maz knows, are defective, Every
and statuettes. They look as if they had that the engineers found it impossible to this to be secured? It is a work, but for demand, from whatever stop the engines. This considerably handi English, but for Russian spokesmen, and quarter it has come, has tended to drive and imbs aising from the outside statues capped the work of lewering the boats and they should be those who command the con- freights up throughout the world. They been guillotined by the Germans; perhaps, are still rising, and as they go up so the it because the necks are the slenderest the rescue operations There was a very
Our rola-es every English instinct will cost of everything advano, not only herepans of the junges, but it is almost tragic rough sea when the vessel went down. Even then she had way on her, and her pre tell us, unless we are run away with can but in allied and neutral countries. The albagh they are but slope, mozete some heel that stood over the north door. It pellers were revohing. The captain evin this matter be only subsidiary to that only remedy consists in unified control of Surior de Reing, the famous woman's dently made an effort to beach the vessel of our countless friends in Russia. A the shipping-ont nationalisation-by after it had been struck, shut it was im- army I always leave the praise of Eng-body ropreventing not merely shipbuilders, w noised abroad that it had been smug possible to accomplish this owing to the con.and to the Russians, and they always do but commercial men generally. To that gl away and sold to an American mil- would be mat, preference being given toile," as it lies, brown and chipped, dition of the engine room, which was soon it of themselves. But there are things authority all requisitions would go, and gaire. But there is no mistaking the
which we can do, and are doing. Ealf fall of water.
curving up- But two words will hotter sum up the the demands of the war departments. That ona bench-both eyes and the nose gone, The Malaya sank 29 minutes after the ex- plosion, Tugs and destroyers were sent st whole question, The cure for any petulance committee would check sales to neutrals, an only the under-lip still
also maximum rates. It would endeavour shed off with a knife, once from Dover, but owing to the way on of individual Russian critics will come of which are still being made; it would fix wht. It is as it the features had been
to minimise the delays at the ports, dus the vessel it was impossible to approach the itself, as all the forces of the country are drawn more and more into, and find more
to shortage of labour or other esuses. ship,
free scope in, the positive work of the war. And the end of all doubts and ruminations. Why, for instanes should not prisoners of Captain W. D. Shepherd, of the Empress in Russia will be reached with the further war be employed for this purpose as they of Fort William, which was bound for Dun-development of help in supply and with are being employed for other purposes by kirk with 3,530 tons of coal, described how nay effective advance of the Allies in the the Germans i he tried to reach the Malia, but failed, West.
RESCUE SHIP'S PENALTY.
for his ship was blown up on the way. When off Dover, he said; he saw the liner
wall down by the stern, apparently trying
fidence of their fellow-countrymen.
·LARGEST P. AND, O. LINER-
to make for the shore, He instantly gave
The Haloja was the largest ship in the orders to the chief officer to go down" into the engine room and tell the engineer P. and O, fleet, though not the newest, and to put on all possible speed. He also told bas qsually been employed in the Austra- the mate to get all the boats ready, so that lian nail service, She was recently taken they could go to the rescue of the liner's off this route to make a voyage to Bombay passengers and crew. They were doing so and back.
A-MOUNT OF LEADEN TEARS, There is something horrible about the useum. It resembles a fossilised battle
or the sightmare of an Oriental mas mand of leaden "tears."It is relief se. In the middle is an appropriate emerge into the deserted street again, It may be argued that we cannot can leave the decord of the gooing pigeons trof neutral shipping, and that, sich the orogking daws over the corps of owners would continue to reap a rich
i cathedral, harvest. That is really no objection. We The Rue de l'Universite is like one of need neutral vessels. It is to our advant discovered roads of Pompeii. It is go ago, and to the advantage of the Allies, lievable how little there is in a thres or that such tonnage should be attracted to our storyed hous, when a shell has hoen us and to them. That the owners by rough it and piled up all its contents in rubble hosp three feet deep only on the charging more than British owners are permitted to charge might, thereby feather round floor. Except the enter wale, it their neste is to concern of ours, since our would appear that an ordinary dustman's when they say the torpedo boats and other The liner was insured against war risks primary duty is to win the war. That iskart would hold all a substantial modern
our overwhelming accersity. But the ten-dwelling. He could see that the liner had a very scheme is based on the original cost, and dency of maximum rates of freight, i Motor cara bre waiting to take us to adopted by the Allies, whose subject the trenches, and the guns are booming in the dance insistent voices perceptible list, and was practically lying values have enormously increased, the sum on her side, Many passengers were stond-which the company will receive from the must own about 70 per cent of the carving Lest we forge. The day before ing on the side of the vessel.
Government will not compensate them for going ships now available, would he to crying
In other words, it would fellow as ligh Rheing. He saw at least cigle of the Maloja's the loss of the ship or canb's them at presenteady the market and bring rates down our visit 129 shels were flung into bosts which could not ho lowered, owing to prices to replace her by another. She was follows darkness that if a lead were give The angle at which the vessel was lying fully laden with general cargo, largely in One boat was lying end on to the liner, sured with the Government, and to a cer- by si Allies freights throughout the difference. An olocrat understanding full of people, A number of other people ain extent with underwriters, were standing on the ship, waiting to get into this boat, but it was already over. [Like the Medina, her slightly smaller crowded and they could not do so. He sister ship, the Maloja was built in 1911. Dould not say whether his own ship was She was of 12,431 tons and was built by
Her speed was 18 truck by a mine. It sank ju half an hour, Harland & Wolff. hat all his crew of 20 were saved.
craft coming out of Dover.
under the Government scheme, but as this
knots.]
wor'd would fall,
hipbuilding and appreciating im The rame central body would hasten the mense resources, needed to hurry work completion of the 500,000 tons of shipping on. insisting that it is a matter of na now lunched or plated. Some of it could tional poʻitical, military, and economic be at sea in a few weeks; the whole of it ptgessy he meantime, through the could be ready in three or four months. same author deners won't be only too Those 500,000 ons would make all the pleased to
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