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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1919.
OUR MARITIME RIVALS,
IMPRESSIONS OF CHINA AND JAPAN,
Sir Herbert Rowell, Past Presi- dent of the Shipbuilding Em- ployers' Federation, writes to a Home paper as follows
I had heard so much of what was going on in Japan and the United States, and also of the possibilities of China, that I de- cided to go and see it for myself. I started in March, and was away four and a balf months.
Among the places I visited first were the Straits Settlements. Hongkong, Shanghai, and Kaga- saki. The latter has grown to be a very important shipbuilding place, and so have Hongkong and Shanghai. There are two first-
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first-class yards at Shanghai. At Hongkong they are buildingquite large cargo boats-up to 10,000- tons. But both yards are capable. by extensions being made, of building much larger.
.. The workmen are Chinese, but the managers and head foremen are British. The Chinese are absolutely first-rate workmen, both from the point of view of skill and industry, as well! as being of excellent physique. Whatever the reason may be the Chinese works as though he likes it. and the difficulty is not to get him to keep full time, but to limit the number of hours that he may work.
In the case of the highly skilled Chinese mechanics, as soon as a son is about 12 years old his father takes him to work with him and personally instructs him and interests himself in seeing that the, boy becomes equally skilled:
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i was surprised to find that shipbuilding in China and Japan was so far advanced, and from what I have seen I regard them as very much better shipbuilders than we had been led to believe them. On my tour I met several engineers who knew China, Japan, and the United States well and they expressed the view that if they were going to start a shipyard out of Britain they would start it in China. When China awakens we shall have another serious rival to face. There are not wanting those who are doing their best to awakeni ber..
But to pass on to Japan. At Nagasaki the whole organization: of the Mitsu Bishi Company, from top to bottom. is Japanese. They have one of the best plants have l seen anywhere. They build first- class liners und war ships. The same company has got a very ine plant also at Kobe.
Then there is the Asano Ship- building Company at Yokohama and the Yokohama Dockyard and Engineering Company. These are all first-class places. Their: plant would be accounted first- class in this country. The lay- out of the plant, the size of the ships, and the quality of the tools are as good as it is possible to have them,
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You will find this spirit animating the workman bending over his ma chine the inspector keenly vigilant for fault er faw-the floor foreman checking the work as it leaves his department.
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In the United States I visited
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1,000 HOUSES DESTROYED, end ingenious. He thoroughly
Over 1,000 houses were destroy- understands how to make up for yards all up and down the Pacificed by a fire which broke out in want of weight and stature by and Atlantic Coasts, as well as Pengpu on the Tientsin-Pakow using his strength scientifically. in Vancouver and Montreal. The Railway
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His rate of wages is low. At one lay-out of the American Fards is Government bureaux including yard they were doing shell river-very similar through the whole the beadquarters of the Brigade ing on an 8,000 tonner at 6s. 6d. a country, especially in the yards and the office of the Military. hundred, which is vastly below which have been laid down re- Commissioner were destroyed. British prices.
cently provides for the mini-
The Japanese have been very quick to adopt whatever seemed best in this country and also in the United States, where labour- saving machinery is much more general than here.
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mum handling of material, and e An organisation in Shanghai perfectly natural flow of material known as the Chinese Peoples through the works as it passes Impartial Peace Advocation from the stockgard to the ships. [Society seems have been The American situation, as far sign board has been removed what may be called the atmos-as shipbuilding is concerned, is, from its office at the city West The society is said to have phere in the yards in China and of course, a result of the war. Japan.
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that Spain was our enemy in the addition to her lake' tonnage, sixteenth century, while Amer ca[which is now over two millions. has been our ally. But war makesį AMERICA'S DETERMINATION. a strange melting pot, and it is! The fact is that, whatever our The great difficulty of the difficult to forecast its results in views on the subject may be, it is Japanese in cheap production is the peace time which follows, America's intention to continue LONDON DIRECTORY. material, but the Mitsu Bishi when, commercially speaking all her shipowning. When she has
Company this spring started steel-countries are competitors.
CHEESE. devoted herself to the capture of ̈ rolling in Korea on their own Some people think the position an industry in the past she has
of America in the shipbuilding usually been, successful. Swit Japan has not developed her world of the future has been exzerland believed her position in shipbuilding industry in the same aggerated. But I can only say the watch trade unassailable, and degree as the United States. This that while in America I felt my-ļa similar view was held in Great is due in the first place to the self in the midst of circumstances Britain at one time with regard circumstance that it was from which conveyed conclusively to to agricultural machinery. America onr supplies were my mind a real potentiality, both To sum up the broad impress- coming during the war, in abipbuilding and shipowning. Isions left on my mind as a result 46 well ag ber own men I do not attach too much import of my visit to China, Japan, and and munitions, This stimulated ance to their rapid construction of the United States I am convinc her activity in shipbuilding yards, or even to their rapid con-fed that this country can bold its In the second place she had the struction of ships. But I cannot own if it will. It is the extent of steel and timber, and there is also dispel from my mind the posthe danger I am emphasizing. no doubt, she saw the opportunity sibility of serious rivalry in the not the certainty of our compet- of establishing herself as a ship future. when I picture the trans-itors' success. But there must be. owning nation. These stimulat-formation which has taken placeno policy of muddling through ing causes were absent in the in America. Whereas in 1914 and trusting to our traditional case of Japan. In addition, the she owned two million tons gross good luck. Success, liks genius, Japanese bad not got commercial of sea-going shipping, in 1919 she is the result of a capacity to take enterprise in the same degree as owns almost ten million tons, in linfinite pains.
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