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THE SHIPPING POSITION. THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE. INTERVIEW WITH SER JOSEPH »
MACKAY
1
to get back from France. Besides this. we ongselves have had rather more than, we exjected to do in the way of troop ning to Russia and Indian develop ients: Of course, all this will come to an end before long, and so far as the re patriation of troops is concerned it will be finished this autumn, and our ships will be free to go about their normal hus
BENS,
But as soon as punitions begin to be normal again we shall have to sow"about the business of replacing our server Most people realise that British shipping before the war was a very big affair, but don't think they realise quite how big it wi
When the submarines began to sink our ships we drew on our ruserves. Those reserves were boats running, on
of
We have been, ave, and shall be a muri- time people, but that does not meam that we ate as a nation, full of understand- ing of the business of the sen. « To nuest of us shipping questions are vastly my sterious. We are aware that they affect u* in all kinds of intimate fashions, but we have no clear knowledge of the causes which produce the results Se and oven. sionally moved to deplore, At present, all the seas of the world, between ports which the average untravelled English- man has never hear it was very much for instance, all sorts of people are com
the existence of those ships
which
Naved plaining bitterly because things také šo
us from starvation-but we ard them all, long to return to the nortaal, and they cannot see why there should be so much and if British shipping is ver again to delay. in these circunstances a state be anything like what it was, we must ment which I was able to obtain from the replace them. At present, of course, we
un do little or nothing, and the Ameri Sir Joseph Malay Shipping Controller.
and the Scandinavians and the (writes & representative of The Observer)
Japanese are making the most of the op is of the greatest
test interest and When the armistice was signed portunity. Sir Joseph, we believed that the ship
would very speedily become
In any event, Sir Joseph continued. ping position WOL
We
it is not likely that frights will ever thought we had the right to eagier believe that. There would be an end of again be as as they were before the The Everything has gone wit WALT is vessels for carrying muui- the
herd
There
who used to get four pounds ten tions.
would be great diminu tion in the number of transports required,th a jurets be getting fourteen Coal which, used to be obtainable and be, of ec prse, an end of the submarion porters or dourtfen shilings a
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Stores have gone up, too, and custs fitt repairs cost more than double what they All Els must be res did before the war. Mected in the frights. Of course, they will come down, and come down consider- ably, but it is too amen to expect that they will come down to the old jeve
1
SAID
sinkings. Altogether it seemed that the improvement would be rapid and very ronsiderable
We have been disappointed. Every body knows that, but everybody, does not dnderstand why it is. It is necessary to say quite plainly and debnitely, and with out in any way attempting to 6s blame. that in large degree it is due to labour trouble The ships which bad been employed on military work had to could return to the be restted before they
You cannot take a service of
pener. transport of an armed merchant cruiser and immediately set it to urdinary mer
cans
MORE TO PAY.
Sir dscph went on to peak of the matter of shipping control and its effects, Some of the things he said have put, 1 think, been at all generally realised-and We are the bey are worth realising.
he said, the World,' only nation in
which to day controls Freights or the of the cuntsitzer, The contral is
cantile work. Very extensive alterations ett b your stem of licensing i
A mate applies to us tur na
the Voyage and reence to make Cliseve is coupled where necessary with the condition that he curries so much of a certain kind of freight upon which there
must be carried out first, and everything depended or getting those alterations carages. ried out quickly. There were also many ships whose
surveys were long overdue. They, too, needed to go in for repairs, and it was more than unfortunate that at such a time the men in
most important repairing yard of the is a fixed rate. The rate for whent, for
have decided to go out on strike,
quarter.
Now such a rate leaves him. it best a
1919.
The Fashionable Rage
Ming Yuen Gardens
THE
LAST
PERFORMANCE
OF
BOSTOCK'S CIRCUS
TO-NIGHT
at. 9.15
FOR NEW YORK
1981.
AMERICAN
"GOTHIC
ASIATIC S.S.
PRINCE
CO.
August 20th.
Those strikes dragged on, its you know!
They lasted, site of then for very modest margin under present condi- will be despatched for NEW YORK via SUEZ CANAL on or about
But to compensate him we can two months, and some for much longer. tions. There was a time when over six hundred give him redom to are part of his space for other less necessary things, in which ships were being held up from this cause, and for a long time practically no work the rates are bigber. You see the idea. was being done except at Liverpool and We wanted to have the essential things brought over as cheaply as possible. The way to do it was to cut down the rates for those things as low as possible, and to leave the owner free to charge higher rates for the aun-essentials.
"Glasgow."
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COAL AND OTHER TROUBLES.
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CONTROL AND FRICES,
that if the freights are lowered in cases We have proved over and over again of this kind the benefit is liable to go into the hands of the people who put the goods on board on the other side.
Besides there was the threat of the tual strike. We could not tell whether it would come or not, but we knew what
would
and we were mean if it did come,
That
We have had countless instances to compelled to take precautions
Just meant in the case of ships going to Ame prove the soundness of our method.
This rica, that they had to take in bunkers in consider the position for a minute. the American ports enough coal to bring is a tiny of a certain scarcity, but it them over here and take them back again. is also a time when many people have a in that way we lost 100000 tons of cargo great deal of money and are
Perfectly красе
willing to spend it to get the things they in one month alone.
want. third trouble.
Selebody There was and is a
tig to Base That It The labour employed of imports its never money. may be the producer in a been wa inadequate as it is to-day, Before foreign country, or it may be a British
Snöse ingoing, be faxed an the war suppose aur importa anwhile this country, and where profits in carry to some sixty million tons annually,
ing this thing, can, mireuser, ensuite but to-day they of that there never was
are only about forty million. But in spite.
to carry at cheap rates things. vital to the nation, and in addition belp him to uch congestion at the ports as there is to-day.
meet the serious menace of foreign com The consequences are most seri
petition. Today the turn round of a ship takes so long that it takes in many cases about as long or even longer to performa the whole round journey than it did the days of the war, when there were all the delays of the convey system. Mind,
Well, this control which we exercise the trouble is not all on this side. Other
has a
a certain feet on the position of to countries have their labour troubles As well, and they all help to increase the day, and it makes us more dependent than difficulties of the tin.
Pwe should otherwise be a purely British The foreigner who brings hiping. of all this is that consertenec
goods to us can choose his own freights the ships we have gut are not doing the
and charge what he is. Bus ay own ork which might be expected of them.
bring what we tal theau tu. Bas this is not all. We expected the sur:
People must to ships Ise cotie
What this means is very plainly shown render of the German
will foreigner signed by the fact that
pay up pleted soon after the arn
armistice was
cent more for a ship but for a variety of reasons they were not
to day than a British shipowner will pay. handed over till the end of March. Mean
in a regent issue of use of the shipping while the Allies bad on their bands the
papers it was stated that some ships of business of sending supplies to Rumania, Poland, Austria, and even to Germany. certain typ had len sold to invigners
at prices
iron £20.00 to rauging The available shipping of the world, less
£275,000, TE paper pointed out that the German ships, had to carry out this
ships of the same c's had been bought work in addition to everything else.
a fortnight before by British sinpowners. at £175,000.
Those figures will give you the rawa sure of the effect of our shipping control."
The
THE GERMAN BHIPS.
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"You want to know, of course, how soon there will be any improvement. In thinking of that it is necessary to remem her that the new construction is not going to be anything like what we bad expected. We had hord for two million tons this
much
in about 50
A
COMMISSIONAIRE
COLONEL.
TO
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year: it is
is doubtful if we shall get the more than one million. There are fierman ships, of course and I must say.
At Prince's Restaurant, on June 3rd, the that the Germans did play the game over those ships, Stting them up and preparing Royal Warrant Halders' Association gaves them for sen in a very satisfactory banquet in honour of the King's Birth- day, and thus resumed a pleasant custom fashion. But they will not help us much.. for directie the blockade is raised a large, which had been interrupted by the war amount of tonnage will be taken up in Captain W. M. Power, the president, was carrying food and materials to European in the chair, neutral and the Central Empires.
the
а
Mr. W. Carrington Smith, proposing the
Imperial Forces, mentioned that the man who was formerly his commisioniniro was now a lieutenant-colonel.
But though our new construction is so disappointing: the fact remains that on a broad view the world tonnage will in a few months' time be equal to what
Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey, who it was before the war. The damage of responded for the Navy also had a good the submarine campaign was to a ser story to tell regarding a taciturn steward who had been with him for two years at great extent counterbalanced by
Sir Lionel said: energy of construction in various ecur the outbreak of war. tries; especially in America and Japar. We left Portland on July 28th, and from
that day Before
the war KATALIONG America ased roughly two million, tora of ocean months, I certainly for three or four had very few meals, except on the well bridge. Those
W rocals shipping, and now she must have
brought me over rix millions.. And though we were by my steward He hardly over spoke. losing so heavily, we were also building,
ing, On August 4th, he brought me up my and now we are less than four million breakfast. We were at w, and had got tons down on the prewar position by wireless the signal to commence hostili France and Italy are down about half a ties with Germany. The steward brought
in some dish to the chart-house,
but million each.
instead of So you may say that on the balance
going aut quietly, as usual, the world will soon have as many ships De round to me and said: "I sup as it used to have, and that seems to point pose, it, that our submarines down in to a speedy improvement in the shipping: bars dcover, haven't they?" (Laughter.)
The Bight
have given those Germans the position. But there are one or two other facts to be considered
Viscount Bandhurst, submitting The life Association," observed that success in meant attention to business, which was only another rendering of the word huty Nobody in the whole Empire better the path of duty in a quiet un- obtrusive way than the King, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales (Cheers.).
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