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OLYMPIC'S 12,500 PASSENGERS.
When the Olympic left Southampton last month for New York she had a record passenger list of 2,500.
CHEFSTOW SALE RATIFIED. The purchase of the British national shipyard at Chepstow by a private firm has, it is stated, now been ratified.
GERMAN SHIPYARD CLOSED DOWN.
From Hamburg it is reported that the extensive Blobm ard Voss shippards have been closed down indefinitely owing to labour troubles.
LARGE LINERS FOR FAR EAST.
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CHARACTERISTICS OF MINISTERS.
SOME COALITION PEN-SKETCHES.
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THE PROBLEM OF GERMAN COMMERCE.
AN ENGLISH REVIEWER'S
OPINION,
One heas so much about the
What are the possibilities for Coalition of all the Talents that Germany's foreign trade? ask a it may be an act of sacrilege on writer in the Beck Exchange my part to describe the Ark of | Gazette of London, proceeding to the Covenant, sags 07 M.P.examine the question in the Sitting opposite
however, following terms - breeds familiarity which some genius said breeds con- tempt. The Grea: High Priest. the Prime Minister, continues to exercise his Blondin sway. His entrances and his exits are all stage managed, and the crowd still plays up with enthusiasta.
"In the past, imports isto Germany exceeded exports from Germany, and the unfavourable made up by the balance was earnings of German shipping, German banking, and German capital abroad. Having lost her and having merchant marine
is pathetic to abserve how been uprooted from many of her much they depend upon him. foreign points of vantage, Ger- The success of Mr. Magd George many will and is exceedingly Four large liners for the F&es in his nimble wits and his difficult to par fother indispens D. Far Eastern service are under ability to clathe the seantiestable imports if food and of raw Construction. Thes
are the ea in ruval raiment. He can material.
"The vast quantity of vireal- Moolian and Malg, big tags take a meal for the Coalition nut
of the must ladly furnished tone. ating paper has driven prices to each) and the Mollavin
The Mother Hubbard of Coalition incredible heights, wages have Mongolia 115,800 tons PazhaY
Lever comes to a bute cupboard. [ Followest suit, and, at the same LABOUR'S ELL SHARE OF PROFITS Add to this the facility of talking time, output has remained at At the annual meeting of the sufficiently pleasantly to both about 30 per cent, the output of TyneTees Shipping Co. held at wings of his supporters, and we 1911. The governmenta! and Newruz Re. Alkerman R. Mason- tiave all the ingredients of surves, municipal undertaking- are run) M.P.. stated that fron. 46 to 75 He has great abilities, not least | with a gigantle deficit. The state per cent, of wages arparding of whist is his absorption of ideas | railwags alone are expected to class of freight, was sorted in presented to him. He sonke up a CRUS a loss po the state of: paying labour for discharging at brief like a sheet at Mutting paper|14,9800590,000 marks during the Sewcastle. In two days 24 men does ink, and turn it out in present year. had averazed £4 15s per day for 12 picturesque and rhetorical phrases,
- el. although tiermany's hours work, the latter being is
logy. The House of Communs economic position is dark and 6d per hour, plus overtime at 2463.
is like a public meeting, and threating. many of her great PROSPERTY OF SWEDISH LINES.esponds with the selle regulanty | resource- remain to her. She ba It is stated that Swedish ship of a claque He much less retained the wonderful North ping has not been in any was Prime Minister than a dietan German plain with its unique seriously affected by the slump and. head and shoulders above his river system. and her central} in freights bich has set in late-colleagdes, reigns supreme. position in Europe. Although 15. The Swedish shipping com.
she has lost a con-iderable por-I THE REAL BONER LAW panies, who at the end of last Mr. Bonar Law, he faithful detion of ber minerals, she has kept. In the Ruhri June had 69 vessels of 114.6sputy, is a splendid full. Henkes vast quantities. Cross register tons under build- a great show of yielding to what Valley alone she has consider. ing and a further 45 vessels of be calls the sense of the House.ably more coal than the whole of 142,450 tons under contract at but he can very quickly fall back the United Kingdum. Besides it home or abroad, bave, it is reupon a stubtom and onrelearing must not be forgotten that the ported, not been forced or induced obstinacy. As on the occasion of to cancel any contracte, which has been the case to a large extent in Norway.
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fiermans have been for centuries order loving, docile, and et- traordinally industrious. Should she succed in creating order and good government the Germans may take up once more their triumphant economic progress."
the recent discussions of the St. Omer dump, once he is scratched, the real Honar Law soon -hows itself. even if the adversary be an THE 5.8. "CITY OF PESIS." The 9.8. of Prisin was re-old friend and colleague like Sir cently launched at the Jarrow Frederick Banbury. Lean con- yards of Messrs. Palmer's for the ceive bim saving up for bis first
A COALITIOS ORNAMENT. Ellerman Lines. Her dimensions speech in opposition to the Prime
Then Members will Mr.Shorts, the Home Secretary, are 47.12-ft. b.p. by 59.1 2.1. by Minister.
estimates of the escaped soon enough from the 34-4. S-in moulded to upper revise their
Irish Secretaryship to avoid the deck: 11,000 tons d..: txo-deck Leader of the House.
fall of Mr. Macpherson. He is THE DULL CHANCELLOR. type, with poop and combined bridge and forecastle; cruiser
Mr. Chamberlain is very dull. about the worst pilot a Bill cea stera: double bottom fitted for in charge of the finance of the hare through the House, and has carrying oil fuel; double reduc. country, he looks like the outside all the astuteness of a village tion geared turbines of Parsons wall of the Bank of England. He policeman. Still be is a Libers! impulse reaction type: 3 single is very touchy, and seems to prop of the Prime Minister and great adaptable, and so he remains an ended boilers, 220-lbs. pressure; think Members take a Howden's forced draught.
tiberty in asking for proots of his ornament of the Coalition. Sir bons fides. He has no strength of Eric Geddes would like to im- broad Introduced by Mr. James Sex-purpose, as is seen in his failure press the House. His
What shoulders seldom, however,square too, the leader of the Liverpool dockers, the text of a Bill to seems to be strength is mere up to it, and in any difficulty turns ia despair to stubborness, Nor has he ang he amend the Merchant Shipping: settled purp se. If the Prime Mr. Arthur Seal, who can state a Acts, 1894 to 1920 has been Minister is the Blondin of the case more meticulously and at published. Among its provisions Coalition Circus. Mr. Chamber greater and unnecessary length are the following: (a) Except in lain is the contortionist. His cases of grave emergency, no sea- man or apprenticeco & Britishship reates: fests in that way were, shall be employed for more than of course, the War Wealth Levy eight hours a day or more than 43 and Excess Profits Duty. boors a week; (b) The obligation to carry a certificated cook shall be extended to all British foreign going ships of 1.000 tons and up- wards; and (c) maximum punish-
LABOUR'S SEA POLICY.
ment for sending or taking a ship
to sea in an unseaworthy state to
be increassed to penal servitude
for ten gears.
to stop extravagance.
COMING MES.
that any other Minister on the Bench. Then there is Mr Winston Churchill, always bubbling over for a scrap with somebody, and obviously chagrined because the
I have just read that Sir Gordon Prime Minister won't let him off Hewart, Sir Hamar Greenwood, the leash. The most brilliant and Sir Robert Horne are coming man of the bench, he must also This was in a Coalition be the most disappointed. Mr. not Count He organ: so it frees one from the Balfour does charge of pr judice, because I attends occe in a blue moon, and had come. The Attorney-General else there. When he is there he was under the impression they looks surprised to see anybody is the handyman of the Coalition. leads the chorus of "bear, here" OIL FUEL STEAMERS FOR Whether it is outside, a5 at for Mr Lloyd George.
AUSTRALIA.
Leamington, or inside on the The announcement made re- St. Omer Dump, he is sum- cently that a new line of oil fuel moned to the rescue. He is worth steamships is to be established to every penny of his salary, and ron between the United States of can produce the goods when America and Australian ports wanted. Bir Hamar Greenwood provides a significant indication rejoices in two valuable assets
of the Dear approach of a well-groomed appearance and
oil fuel er,"
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A MOTLEY CROWD. Mr. Walter Long of the "Eo- chantrees" is best when he is hammering Mr. Malone, and worst when he is explaining the movements of our Flest. A charming rolic of the old English county gentleman, he still hopes
88 a Canadian accent. They are bia to vary bis public life by becom- regards Australian shipping. The whole stock-in-trade. He willing Minister of Mines or TranE-
latest additions to the Aus fail as miserably as Mr. Mac port. Mr. M'Curdy is the "Dear- tralian Navy born oil fuel. The pherson in a post for which there me-no" of Coalition. He new merchant vessels building in were no Tory starters. Otherwise, always mantes to convey the England for the P. and O. Com Sir Hamar Greenwood, would not impression that the last thing in pany and the Commonwealth have bad "an earthly," Sir Robert the world is to think that there Government also will be equipped Horne is always pleasant. I can is anything he would not do to do for oil fuel, so that in the near fancy him in Selfridge's Stres otherwise than you think he ought future port authorities will be showing customers to their to do. They are a motley crowd, a obliged to consider the question various departments. He is the modern Babel "They have been of providing adequate bunkering Prime Minister's shopwalker. Host a great feast of languages and facilities for oil-burning vessels. will never, however, dwn the shop, stolen the scraps.**
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