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THE DIRECTORY
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1926
CHINA, JAPAN," TORE INDO CHINA, SIAM, TRATT
BESTLEMENTS, MALAY STATER
NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHIRP.
PINES, BORNEO, I
SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL
BRITISH INTERESTS DOMINATE,
GERMANS AND BRITISH Burgomnater Van Cauwelsert apoka A point phasised by one British with antisfaction of the present shipping authority interviewed was the dominating position of British interests rapid manner in which German in Post-war developments have nothing. in the port of Antwerp." In an allusion, terests are reasserting themselves here. more wonderful to show than the re to our Ambassador ut Brussels he res At present the British and German flags surrection of“ „Antwerp, wrote the marked that the welfare of Antwerp has | may be considered as having about: 34 special correspondent of the bang - always occupied a foremost pisce in the and 15 per must respectively of the Telegraph on August 8th. When on sympathies of Sir George Graham, and regular line" traffic of Antwerpen the conclusion of the Armistice, Sir he added that, under the able direction proportion which is not, it was point- Cecil Hertsies, theu still, and for some of Mr.Arthur Bowley, the British Coned out, so very much in our
favour weeks afterwards, Consul-General, raufate-General is well maintaining the when it is remembered that the Ger turned here by the first boat, on Noven
very friendly and fruitful co-operation man fleet is far from being reorganised ber 30th, 1918-as he had left the port which Sir Cecil Hertales, that great yet. This particular authority, speak by the last boat before the fall of the friend of Antwerp, had already rening of the ever-growing German com city on October 7th, 1914-there was lered traditional." The words that petition-The German ships coming absolutely no shipping in evidence, and Van Cauwclaert used with reference to the formerly pulpitating quaysides of
the position of British commercial in- the Scheldt had become a wilderness terests in Antwerp I give in exten: overgrown with weeils What a meta-
Since the port of Antwerp half a morphosis has been effected since then
century ago commenced its continuous To-day the port, which had so to say and impressive development, which, in been completely put out of commercial action by the war, cau point to the site of the discatrous period of the
Unless there comes quickly in England! marvellous achievement, after a forwar, has placed it at the head of Con-
tinental parts, the British Mercantile drastic change in commercial methods years' strenuous effort at reconstruction, of a tounage of ships using it totalling Marine has occupied a preponderating and Labour tactics we are bound to go position. In 1913, out of 1,005 vessels to the dogs, as did the Roman Empire. more than 10,000,000 during 1034-au
which entered the port, 3,233 flew the It is simply astounding to me til to advance of some 8,000,000 tons on the
British Bag, or 47.3 per cent. In 1908 others, viewing things from detached
prefaced by DESCHIP year 1913, which up to then bad e-
out of 7,008, distance, that the English workman doesTION, care their number was 4,302
shois year," the servo da ad Eccurato stituted record. It is an amazing.
i. 53 per centi; 199, 4,200 out of not realise how he is gradually. DRY | GUINIS FOR THE TOVRIST, giving every detail
their history recovery, brt Antwerp is by no means 3,393; in 1921; 4.319 out of 9.100, of Burely ruining our industry. It is perin connection content with this, qnil, at the present 333,435 tons tonnage. British imports outly hopeless for a country having the Topography, moment she is engaged on a programme of extension which, to repeat the word that was used in a recent despatch, is nothing short of colossal.
are
as is
bear it like proportion to the total im parts of the port of Antwerp borne by the formidable proportion of the shipping dying the British flag." In 1993 the proportion is 43 per cent, consisting chiefly of goods which con- stitute the indispensable elements of our food supplies and raw materials for our
manufactureTS.
here," he said, are ingrensing month by month")-in conjunction with the relative costs of Continental and British ports, and of the policy of strikes and "en canny in England, took a most pessimistic view of the future; he, in deix, declared inqurafully-
about conditions which now prevail in England to attempt to compete with peoples, whose industrial peace and con- ciliation are enabling them to forge.
ahead so amoothly and so rapidly.
He had a word of criticism, too, for the British shipowner as Against the German:-
The German (he said) will do much
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A STUPENDOUS SCHEME. Contrary to the system in England, with its Port Authorities distinct from its civic councils, the administration and management of the port of Antwerp Rational industries. But Great Britain more than will the Britisher "to accom- the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED. LISTS – in the hands of the Municipal is not only the first and, most faithfu/modate the shipper If, for instance, a TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger :
of our customers, but likewise she is a shipper wishes a cargo to be stowed in such-and-such a way or in's certain hold, Council, and it is the Corporation of valued collaborator in the activity of the representatives of a German line will the Burgomaster and Aldermen who our city. Many of her nationals have
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20,000 FOREIGNERS, before the Municipal Council, and those writers, bankers, ship repairers, and the shipper to become more friendly dis- posed towards the Germans than towards in their turn must be approved by the
the British, who refuse to go out of their arranged, with the Initials as well as the Sar. I can therefore say without any ex-beaten track to oblige a client... nazzes, în · atristly Aphabetical Order, so that provincial purmanent deputation or aggeration that the prosperity of the
any name can be found instantly, sanctioned by the King. In its present British Empire and that of the port Burgomaster, M. Van Cauwolaert, Ant and city of Antwerp are intimately allied. Without Great Britain Antwerp werp possesses a bead of incessant ca- could not maintain its highly import- terprise who has at heart the greater ant position, and I may adil, without any fear of contradiction, that, just as glory of the already mighty port com the power of Britain' has never been mitted to his charge, and 3. Cauwel a menace to our country, the import aert, in an interview that I have badance of British interests in Antwerp has never been an obstacle to our moral in- with him, informed me that the exten- dependency: Just as the British colony sions to the port that have been ap-in Antwerp is distinguished by honesty proved are expected to involve, an ex penditure, roughly, of no less than 250,000,000f., and that the completion of these various works will practically triple the facilities of Antwerp, which already possesara sixteen maritime docks, four barge docks, seven graving or dry docks, 230 miles of railway tracks, an enormous hoisting and other equipment, and tremendous wareban necommodation.
in business relations and, its gonerosity towards charitable works, so is its dis cretion towards our public life to be admired. And, thank God, we can look forward into the future without fearE, for, just as the war reinforced our moral relations, it has equally enlarged in a happy way the circle of our com- economic interests. Two examples are sufficient to prove this the establish ment here of several first-class English? banks and the establishment of now com mercial relations direct between Ant- werp and Great Britain's Dominions.
The most striking impression of the extent of the extensions in progres afforded in the new canal dock, which. It was once said by the German starting from. Wet Dock No. 5, ends in & great maritime lock at a band of economist Professor Schumacher, "Ant the Scheldt downstream at Kruisschana werp's power of attraction lies in its The walls of the lock are already above cheapness," and conversations that I low-water lovel, and there is a prospect have had with leading commercial men of its being completed boxt year. This here, both Belgian and British, provide lock, with a length of 888ft. a width abundant verification of that statement. of 11aft, and a depth of 33ft, at low Leaving aside the enormous advantage. tide and about 47ft. at high tide, will that Antwerp possesses by its peculiar place Antwerp in the proud position geographical position and by that extra-
ordinary system of Buvial and canal": of possessing one of the biggest con- structions of this kind in the world connections which bring it into direct It will indeed, ba slightly wider than touch with so many and such distant that of Panama Starting from the parts of Europe, shippers must always lock, a canal dock more than three miles be, attracted by its low pilotage and long and nearly 1,000ft wide-in its towage charges, its clearance fees, its bend the width will be no less than port charges, and its stevedoring rates, 1,300ft-will connect the northern end the Baltic and White Sea Confer
of the existing docks. This work is ex-ence held at The Hague last year, it was pocted to be completed within two years pointed out that in the case of a ship. Later the construction of 2.000 metres of 4.374 tons, and unloading 2,500 tons of deep-water quays in the bend of the of general cargo, the dues at various Bebelde is to be considered; than the Continental and British ports ranged from 500 to £583, while those of Ant- part will have nearly 30 miles of quay werp were only 260; and, further, that walls, nearly 38 square miles of dock stevedoring: costs in other European and more than 100 square miles of quay ports varied from is. 61 to is per aron and railways combined.
But the neworks mentioned do notton, while at Antwerp they were Is. 3d. complete the programma that the Munther is no need to go further into cipal Council has in view. Consideras detail regarding matters which, though, tion is being given to the question of unfamiliar to the public and, apparent grafting further wet docks on to the often ignored by GovernmentA new canal dock and of building a large are so painfully well known to British dock to be specially appropriated for as to other shipowners, shippers, and grain and ore traffic; and, further merchante more, there is a project for the con- struction of a maritime canal from Antwerp to the Moerdijk (Dordrecht Holland), which, in conjunction with the Rhine and the Rhine-Danube Canal, would bring, Antwerp into direct con- nection by waterways with the Balkin ports as far as the Black Sea
While England is handicapped in her commerce by those labour troubles, which, unfortunately, would appear to have become part of her normal life, Antwerp, like so many other foreign centres, is facilitated in its continuous progress by an absence of these crip- pling factors. There has, indeed, I am The particular rival of Antwern is, informed, been only one serious strike as is pretty well known, Rotterdam, hera during the past two years. « The and in this connection one bears divert- Balgion workman pemá to, he co- ing stories of the constant efforts of the operating loyally with his employers two ports to outdo each other. Thus the determination to advance the port, Rotterdam, at the mention of the and it is rather curions and mortify- Kruisschans Lock at Antwerp-which | ing to be told that, whatever deteriora alone, among the now works is to cost |tion is to be noted in him since pre- About 70,000,000f-points proudly to its war daya is the result of his contact Imuiden Lock, which is to be bigger with labour agitators in Great Britain ! but if you remark on this in a hesitat. In spite of modifications that were made ing. apologetic way, to Burgomaster so that it could be made applicable to Van Cauwelgert he, with a twinkle in port work, the eight-hours, day and;] his eye, will tell you that Antwern has forty-eight-hours wecklow is, it may (anteekamatuer constructing, almost be here mentioned, causing great dis
pamantay th the Teniseshang Inn Anabisfaction to employers, and z. Royal theplan that will put the Ymuiden Commission has been set up to inquizo Lock completely in the shade!
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