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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY, MAY 24, 1937.
NOVEL DESIGN INTER-EMPIRE
OF NO. 552 Steadier Than The Queen Mary
I um able to give further de- talls of the radical changes, made in the design of the new Cunard- White Star, ocean glant, No. 552. as compared with the Queen Mary. writes a correspondent in the "Daily Telegraph."
Experience with the Queen "fary proved conclusively that, by vary- ing the methods of construction and modifying the lay-out or hull and machinery, a very large saving in weight could be effected without any loss of strength.
No. 552-or the "Queen Eliza- beth," as she is always referred to
TRADE Imperial Conference
`And World Problems
ARMS EXPORTS
Britain Leads The World
Great Britain leads the world in the export of arms material, ac- Relations between the British cording to a report published "In Commonwealth of Nations and Berlin by the Institute for Busi- inter-Empire trade were discussedness Research.
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at a luncheon given by the British The United States and France Committee on Empire Trade at come next.
the Hotel Victoria in honour of the In 1936, the report states, these delegates to the Empire Parla-three countries transacted three- mentary Conference. The British quarters of the world's turnover in Committee on Empire Trade em-exported arms, ammunition, war- braces the Association of British ships and military aircraft, so far Chambers of Commerce, the Fe- as Is statistically known.
No mention is made of German deration of Brith Industries, and the Chamber of Shipping of the figures.
Hirst, United Kingdom.
Armament industries 'through- chairman of the committee, pre-out the world are doing a thriving export business, the report de-
Lord
by the men working on her-re-sided at the luncheon. presents a marked departure from previous practice. Gone are the lofty side oll bunkers and water tanks which are a distinguishing feature of the preceding ship. In the new vessel these compartments "are at a much lower level, thus lowering the centre of gravity and conducing to greater stability.
Sir Alan Anderson, M.P., propós-clares.
Many of the water compart- ments are so arranged that they will serve as anti-rolling tanks. Steadiness is further assured by the fitting of broad bilge keels.
SPECIAL PROPELLERS Little change has been made in the shape of the bows, but the midship section and the stern will bear small resemblance to those of the Queen Mary. The curvature of the stern conforms to the action. of the four propellers which have been specially designed for the ship, to give maximum thrust with minimum vibration.
Thanks to the weight-saving methods adopted, the displace- ment, or total waterborne weight of the new ship will be less than the Queen Mary's. On the other hand, her gross tonnage is not- cially estimated. at 86,000 tons. which would make her about 5,000 tons larger than the Queen Mary and 2,600 tons larger than the Normandie.
ed the toast of "Imperial Trade." The World's export trade in He said that in order to organize armaments last year, it says, business activities to the best ad-reached ninetenths of the value of vantage various interests had been the armament rade in 1929, which brought together in the Committee was a record year. on Empire Trade, and they had ar- rived at unanimous conclusions on each occasion when Empire trade problems were before them. The Ottawa step he thought had not been represented to the world in as friendly a sense as it might have been. The world gained im- mensely by having great collections of progressive peoples putting
The state of business was also reflected in the price level Last year the average export prices for all goods were some 30 per cent. but export lower than in 1929 prices for amaments were seven per cent. higher.
According to the report more
than half the war material export- munitions, while 44 per cent. con-
ed in 1936 consisted of awns and
their houses in order so that they could exchange trade among them.sisted of exported military aircraft. selves and then with the world. He did not think the British Em- pire would prosper more as an ex- clusive unit, shutting out all the rest of the world. We were a part of the world, and by our progress the world must progress also.
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Canada's mining industry
In 1937 Minister of Mines Thomas Alexander Crerar has great hopes, estimates that Canada will pro-. duce base metals, such as nickel, lead, copper, zinc, worth £32,000,-
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CANADIAN POSITION Mr. Angus Macdonald, Premier of Nova Scotia, responding, said that the United Kingdom" bought 000. from other parts of the Empire. This would be a gain of £10,- 2332,000,000 of merchandise and 000,000 over 1936, is due to the sold to the Dominions and Colonies stimulus of the huge re-armament £216,000,000, The balance of programmes of the world powers. trade was therefore rather heavily against the United Kingdom. So far as Canada was concerned. It must be remembered: that she was
The four complete sete of tur- bines and gearing, with an out-nniquely situated among the put of nearly 200,000, h.p., and the 12 main bollers-the largest ever built for marine work-are already under construction in the Clyde- bank shops They will work at a higher pressure than those of the Queen Mary, and a greater degree of superheat will be employed.
KEEPING, THE SHIP DRIER The deck plan of No. 552 will be quite unlike that of her pre- decessor. It has been found that when a ship which, like the Queen Mary, is Atted with a top-gallant forecastle, drives at top speed into a head sea, she takes a good deal of water and spray over the bows.
On the other hand, model expert. ments show that an unbroken fore- castle deck, provided it is sum- ciently high above the water, keeps the ship drler. Consequently the new liner will have a Hush but well-sheared foredeck, traversed by a massive steel V-shaped break- water.
As the whole ship will be more buoyant than the Queen Mary, she is expected to ride the seas more easily, and also to develop mbre speed for a given output of ma- chinery power,
Although the Queen Mary has proved an unqualified success, sur- passing all expectations of her builders and owners, it has beeh determined that her newer con- sort shall be the unchallenged and unassailable queen of the ocean.
CHINA'S SYSTEM OF RAILWAYS
. China has a five-year plan for doubling her railways. That means that five thousand miles of new railway has to be built at the rate of a thousand miles a year.
Under the Nationalist Govern- ment the railway situation has im- proved, since 1933 a definite ad- vance has taken place.
Dominions, having 3,000 miles of border to one of the wealthiest and greatest countries of the world the United States. Canada took from the United Kingdom goods to the value of £25,000,000 sterling and exported to the United King- dom £18,000,000 worth. Al Canadians realized that the Mo- ther Country was not only kind but generals.
Just as in the political sphere the British Commonwealth of Na- tions had led the way in democratic institutions, "so in the "sphere of commerce, business and trade it might have the further mission of proving how different countries, by approaching the problems in a spirit of good will, could solve them to the advantage of all. To a world sorely stricken in many parts with violence, hatred, and strife, there could go forth from the Imperial Conferences a mess- age of peace.
"Sir Archdale Parkhill. Australian Minister for Defence, proposed the health of the chaimman, and said that the Australian Commonwealth had to thank Lord Hirst for a re- port on its economie position which was of the utmost value.
Lord Hirst, in reply. said that to balance divergent problems was the British-aim, and with the help of the representatives from the Dominions and Colonies who had come to London, he felt that we would solve those problems, if not to the extent of 100 per cent., yet with such efficiency as would be very useful to the countries as a whole.
Non-Aggression Pacis
Moscow, May 22 The suggestion by Mr. J. A. Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia, that nations of the Pacific should conclude non-agression pacts, is commented upon in the semitor-
cial Izvestiu. The Soviet
Government organ stresses that pacts of this nature are much desired by the. U.S.S.R., Now interest on the Hukuang but Izvestia, strongly suspects that Railway bonds is to be guaranteed they will be difficult to accomplish. from salt revenue-24 per cent, is owing to Japanese imperialism.—
The southern portion of the Canton-Hankow line has been completed, many contracts enter- ed into for new lines, the repair. equipnient of old ones
to be paid in 1937, 5 per cent. after that. Thus has been taken an- other step towards foreign borrow- ing for financing the new rail- Ways.
Reuter..
The development still to be un- dertaken is great. Densely popu- THE EARLY DAYS
lated provinces Hunan, Kuel- Recalling amusingly the early chow have practically no rallways, days of Unina's rallways was on the Upper Yangtze аге bright up-to-the-minute "Great difficulties which puzzle many Britain and the East" this week: engineers; but it is planned that "It is hoped that the days when 16 some day Chengtu, capital of vast was reported that the rails had Szechuan, will be linked with more been taken away by the local Eastern provinces, the seaboard by population, the sleepers cut up for rail as well as river. fuel, and the permanent way For many will come big con- damaged by excessive wheelbarrow tracts. Great Britain is already traffic' have gone for ever."
sitting up, taking notice..
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Enthused over too by Crerar was that Canada's total mineral pro- duction reached the record figure of more than £72,000,000 in 1998, that Canada's chief customer is Britain which took more than half Canada's production of nickel. lead, zinc, copper and aluminium.
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