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MOST SHIPS COME TO A
NATURAL END
14,000,000 TONS WRECKED OR
SCRAPPED IN TEN YEARS
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WAR DANGER IN EUROPE
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poorer working-class areas
I can only say that reform of the monetary system so as to procure a steady recovery in the value of new effort compared to old debta and The statistical summary of ships, The statistien! tables, which have fixed charges is an absolutely neen's. totally lost, broken up, and con- been prepared in such a way as to try factor in revival hero at home. demned, now published by Lloyd's facilitate comparison between the We all should watch with sympathy Register, shows that during 1999 the principal maritime countries of the and earnest attention the heroic ex- gross reduction in the mercantile world, disclose instructive informa- our individual liberties and civic marine of the world amounted to 651 tion respecting the relative
fre- rights, which our forefathers gain- ships, of 1,751,337 tons, excluding quency of the different kinds of ed for us in many a hard-fought all vessels of less than 100 tons. casualty that end the existence of periment which the President of the
Of this total 673 ships of 1,698,945 ships..
of the United States is making. If tons, 79, of 133,112 tons, were' sailing Strandings and kindred casualties he fails it will be not only ar These guros, compared which are emprised under the term For myself I put far more hope in voseols.
American, but world, disaster. with 1991. represent an increase of “wrecked," ar the most prolific 360,537 tons for steamers and motor canso of disaster. To such casual-the resolute mental energy of Pre- ships, and of 22,000 tons for sailing ties are attributable 57,7 per cent. sent Roosevelt than in the vener vessels. Shipping broken up last of the number of steamships and able and chilling orthodoxy of Mr. year amounted to 1,379,193 tons, motor ships, last, and 31.1 per cent. Montagu Norman. against 1,032,713 tons in 1931, an of sailing ships
I mention these two famous, men Causes of ships increase of 345,431 tons, and actual abandoned, foundered and missing because they represent the opposite casualties show an increase of 37,956 are, it is suggested, no doubt, frenomic problem. I should like to see thoughts and moods upon the eco- quently more or less similar in the circumstances of loss; and, if these be taken collectively, they represent 17.8 per cent. of steamships and amator-ships and 31.2 per cent. of the sailing ships removed from the mercantile
mariue during 1932 owing to casualty.
tons..
The tonnage of ships owned in Great Britain and Ireland which were broken up and disma itled dur- ing 1939 amounts to $54,240, against 314,057 tons in 1831.
The number and tonnage of ships of all nationalities lost and broken up during the last 10 years are as follows
Year No, 1923 700 1924- 1995 653
1926 · 856
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our National Government and the tears so heavy a burden, find some Chancellor of the Exchequer, who path between the two which, would ring es nearer to the realities of production. distribution, and ex |change."
..India:
The third danger, he continued, Steamships & Sailing A large proportion of the tonnage which menneed the Government was mator-ships. ships annually jeniowed from the mer "this absurd Round-Table plan of
Tons
Tons chant flects of the world comes to setting up a Federal Constitution (Kross).. No. (gross) what may be called a natural end, in India on the rather buttered -1,150,870 350 259,900 | being broken up, dismantled," and lines of Western demeuracy, and of 1,014,662 220 243,017 condemned for reasons not known to handing over the control of the .880,791
186 161, consequent upon casualty or police and the welfare of the Indian ...1,226,873 182 117,070 stress of weather. Last year the masses to the efforts of either large. 852,309, 154 139,671 ships 93 broken up, and condemnedly untried or provedly disloyal 1,917,075 121 94,471 | amounted to no less than 794 per Indian politicians. 1,438,063 120 81.007 cont. of the tonnage of the steam 1,232,521 107 80,783 ships and motor-ships, and 8.2 per 1,336,708
3112 cent of the sailing ships included, 1,696,94% រង់ 35/119 in the tables.
"Now," he said, "whereas the state of Europe, and the economic depression are largely beyond the control of any British Government, in their Indian policy our Clovers- ment and its leading men have only themselves to thank for all their
NOTICES TO MARINERS STRIKE OF B.A.T.assments. Why cannot, they
Harbour Swim On September 6
The Harbour Master issued a notice yesterday to the effect that the Annual Military Cross Harbour Swim will be held on Wednesday, September 6 at 10.30 am.
The course is from Kowloon Railway Pier to the RAS.C. Camber."
The masters of all vessels and
others concerned are requested to
proceed with caution in thk vicinity during the hours of 10.30 a.m. and 11.15 am on the above date.
Bombardment Of Sharp Peak. The Harbour Master has issued ¬ice yesterday to the effect that HMS. "Bridgewater will Carry out А bombardment Sharp Peak on Wednesday Sep tember 6, with Thursday Septem ber 7, as a spare day in the event of unfavourable weather.
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Before Commander Newill at the Marine Court yesterday, a Chinese coxswain named Cheung Po was charged with giving untrue parti culars when obtaining a clearance as to the cargo carried on board the motor junk "Sze Yick." De fendant pleaded guilty and was fined $15.
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K'LOON TONG ANGLICAN
CHURCH
WORKERS
Both Pootung Factories Now Affected
OVER 7,000 EMPLOYEES IDLE YESTERDAY
Indian politicians prove their capacity for giving good gov ernment to the masses and loyal duty to the Crown in the great Provinces before embarking on this Utopian dream of a United States. of All India!
"Surely it is fair to ask these Indian politicians to prove, that they can govern the great Provinces, almost as large and as populous as France, Italy, or Spain, before handing over to them the responsi bie control of the stately Empire which the British have built in India instead of the endless miseries and massacres of the past. Surely we should not part with the effec Shanghai, Aug. 26,
tual control of law and order, of Labour trouble which has been peace and justice, until we bave simmering for about a fortnight some solid facts and guarantees among the Pootung factory workers upon which to depend?" of the British-American Tobacco Co. reached a head yesterday, when employees to the total number of some 500 came out on strike, as DAMAGE TO ST. CATHE- threatened several days ago, in protest against the dismissal of
two inen.
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DRAL ROOF
Continued from Page 7) dooded with white ant poison and left for the time being.
New Track Built In A Night.
1.
Though previously described as I "go slow" strike, the situation ac tually amounts to a complete stop Page of operations at the Nos. 1 and 2. Pootung Factories of the. company. Work was at a stand- still. but employees were remaining on the premises in the deluded hope The knowledge of the necessity, that by so doing they would retain of moisture for the ants and the the right to draw pay. Though general inferred direction made pickets were established. nó distur- the excavation of a short run of bances were reported by the man-cracked surface water. channel in- agement, the number affected being evitable. Here again the speed too great for them to attempt to and size of new tracks built in draft in outside labour."
one night after a cutting had been The North China Daily Newsmade showed the importance of was officially informed that the mat- this track, further soldier ants ter was now in the hands of the City were seen here and this line is Government of Greater Shanghai. now being followed up.
ants in the Cathedral root have It was hoped that under the super It is fairly conclusive that the
their headquarters in the ground.
To many people the maggot-like amber coloured ants that swarm
Church House To Be Con-vision of Mayor. Wu Teh-chen the
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matter would be thrashed out with
a view to a speedy settlement.
Reinstatement Demands.
To Inch Long.
The Bishop of Hong Kong will Hallow the Church House
The management have found it about June are the normal and Service to be held on Saturday, mands for the reinstatement of the of these creatures drop off within out of the question to yield to de-only type of termite. The wings September 2, at 6.00 p.m. The two dismissed men. Unrest origi- an hour of leaving the nest and House is situated on KIL. No. nated in the No. 1 Pootung Fac they are then left defenceless to 2586 in Duke Street; it can be tory, the first of the dismissals tak crawl away to some dark corner, reached by taking 6 bus from the ing place some time ago, and the Their future is not being dealt Star Ferry to Prince Edward Road second about two weeks prior to the with here. and alighting at. Knight Street stoppage. One man was dismissed which is the first stop after the for striking a shroff with broom Railway Bridge. Duke Street is handle, "stated a representative of Several different types of white the first turning on "the left down the management, and the other ants are to be found in one nest, Knight Street.
purely for insubordination. The while each nest seems to develop entire problem was regarded as the work of an agitator, and Until the Municipality's negotiations had con- cluded nothing could be done.
According to the vernacular press, the resolution to call & "go slow strike from 7am. yesterday war takon at a meeting of the Fifth 100 Machines Taking Part IP District Rolled Tobacco Trade Workers Union held on Thursday evening. This followed a mediation meeting under the auspices of the City Government, at which the management "declined to accept de
GERMAN 'PLANES OVER POLAND
National Flight
Warsaw, Aug. 23.
peculiarities of its own and have strong variations. The "workers" found in the ground around the Cathedral are generally a light brown in front, dark cream in the middle and grey for the last third of them. The roof workers are more creamy in colour. The aver- age length is about of an inch, The soldiers are twice as long and more robustly built altogether, their armoured, plated head and mandibles being half their length. One positively snow white and 1
A hundred German aeroplanes mands that the dismissed workruen of an inch long was found, whose have been given permission to fly be reinstated that wages for the function cannot yet be ascertain- over Polish territory, following an period of the "go plow strike be application to the Government by paid, and that all other outstanding. The compound is getting the ap- the German authorities, et
The machines are taking part in
questions. be settled later.
pearance of a battle ground, and
a flight "round Germany," and reported to have been formed by the and his poison is pitted against Twelve "propaganda corps are the clumsy Instruments of man permission was granted since the Fifth District Trade Union to de- the mining engineers, whose speed Polish authorities admit that com monstrate in the neighbourhood of of construction is comparatively munication between Germany and the two factories Plans have been colossal, whose potential creation East Prussia should be subject to made to organise a strike commit of new workers runs into thousands normal conditions.
tes at a general meeting of repre- an hour, and who work and, thrive The planes will, therefore, be sentatives on August 29. Hands at in the dark, and at times give no allowed to fly over the Polish the No. a Factors in Yangtazepoo Indication of their presence until Corridor on one day only in groups. do not come under the control of the material upon which they are
Reuter,
-the Fifth District Union.
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