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entirely owned by the United States. That seemed to him to be a serious consideration for shipowners in this country. Turn- "Ca' Canny" Policy on the ing to the liners, however, there
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wore 360 vessels fewer, and it ap- later that tonnage would have peared to him that sooner or to be made up, and he hoped that Fairfield would get its share. (Applauss.)
She
CHANGED CONDITIONS FOR LINERS.
THE FACTS ABOUT JUTLAND.
A Symposium of the Home Press.
Comment upon the Battle of Jutland dispatches is on the whole favourable to Lord Jellicoe. The following are the views of the leading London and pro- vincial journals:-
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The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Glasgow, sun- ched recently the twin-sorow geared turbine liner Montrose, 16,250 tons, built to the order of the Canadian Pacific Ocean Ser- vices, for their North Atlantic trade. Fitted for the oil fuel
Sir Thomas Fisher, who replied,Į
At least, it is olear now that! burning, the now vessel in 575 said ho thought the Chairman feet in length, with a breadth of was too optimistic in his refer- the "turnaway" of the Battle 70 feet, and a depth of 68 feet. once to the shortage of passenger Fleet at Jutland, for which Lord and is of the shelter-deck type that the tourist traffic had more ed, was part of the accepted battle steamors. Ho must recognise Jellicoe has been so freely blam- with a bridge deck extending almost the full length, or less gane, and in future plan, had been submitted by Lord will carry only passenger liners would have to Jellicoe to the Admiralty, and two classes of passengers-cabin look for their revenue to business had been deliberately approved and third class-and there will men and emigrants. For that by them. be accommodation on the bridge reason ho hold there were more
MORNING POST. and shelter decks amidships for than enough liners built and un- There was never a reputation 458 cabin passengers, while there der construction to cover the re-
more signally vindicated than will be permanent accommodaquiremonts of the world during the reputation, so foully assailed, tion for 450 third class passengers,
cho 20xt few years, and he of Admiral of the Fleet Lord and portable accomodation for was afraid the shipbuilding in- Jellicoe. an additional 850 if required. The dustry was in for a bad time linor is fitted up with every indeed, AL 2 previous modern equipment for safety and launch. be had given his Firat Sea Lord in 1919, has stated comfort. The propelling machin-j opinion that it would bo that he directed Captain Harpor ery, giving a speed of 1616 knots, necessary for shipbuilding com- to draw up this record (the unpub- will consist of two sots of Brown Panies to simplify vessels bulit lished official history of the battle] Curtis turbines, driving twin for the passonger trade, and the expressly for the "information of screws through double reduction Montrose represented their id at the public"; yet Sir James Craig gearing. The launch, which was of what a modern passenger y se recently declared in the witnessed by large crowds of should be. There were only two Houes of Commons that it was spectators in the yard and on classes the same as on the rail- "never intended for the public." the banks of the river, was in ways and yet provision was The only conclusion can be that every way successful. Lady mado for all requirements. Un the Admiralty has sacrificed the Raeburn, wife of Sir Ernest Rae-fortunately she was designed to public to ite consideration fo burn, K.B.E., manager in Glasgow
burn oil. He held that was a Lord Jellicoe's feelings, for the C.P.O.S., performed the waste, and that the oil should be Fortwo hours Scheer with a weak naming ceremony.
consumed in an internal com- German battleship force steamed bustion engine, but engineers had about in close proximity to an After the launch the builders not yet made sufficient progress overwhelming force of big ships entertained a large company of with that engine to allow under Lord Jellicoe. Ho was not guests in the offices. Mr. Robert of it being fitted in vessels Traill, engineering director oc- of that size.
destroyed. The Montrose
DAILY SKETCH. cupied the chair, and the builders would leave Liverpool On were also represented by Rear- Friday afternoon, and
Lord Jellicoo is thoroughly would vindicated. Actual dispatches and Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg, discharge her passengers early signals show that he was in no Bart, director, and Mr. George on the morning of the following way responsible for escape of the Strachan, director and socretary. Friday. She had cost, with her German fleet. SHIPOWNERS AND HIGH COSTS. sister ships, in the neighbourhood: The Chairman, in proposing of one and a half million sterling,
DAILY GRAPHIC "Success to the Montrose, and and they could only be operated
There is no furthor room for to the Canadian Pacific Ocean successfully if they were turned criticising in any little-minded: Services, and the health of Laty round quickly in port, and if they way the grave decisions he (Lord
the naming coremony, said the ovary voyage. Before the war
DAILY TELEGRAPH," Montrose was the tenth. vessel the most successful shipping The Harper" record is with- the Company had built for the companies and the nost progres-held, and the raw material of groat Canadian Pacific Company. sive wore in Germany, and the history thrust There
the was always, in those greater part of their recess, uninstructed public without any difficult times, regret wlion a especially on the North Atlantic, attempt to indicate its value ship was launched, as orders was due to the quick dispatch or to correlate the Various were very difficult to obtain, and they gave their ships in documents and extract from the berth would not be easily their ports. He spoke of the them their ossential features filed. Shipownera were natural- necessity of encouraging Con-Why this course has been ly growing alarmed at the very tinental emigrants in the off sea-adopted is the real mystery con high costs, aud it was difficult son for such liners, but remarked nected with the Battle of Jutland to foresee where the reduction that they could only get these was to come from.
So large emigeants in competition with the had the costs become that many Continental lines if all concerned the Grand Fleet without success,
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faot that even at that time there Company, along with other ship authorities, and all others con- ment is not justice.
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read an interesting paper on " The issued in one country to be pay- had been cancelled, and there cur again, because the Germane why the British Admiralty Insurance" before the thembora exchange for foreign currency.
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was a prospect that others might would have started. These despite so many advantages of also be stopped. That was aves-els, to sail punctually, would personnel, tradition, and financi of the London Institution. The Aftor relating a number of in- serious consideration. On Satur- have
paper was read under the auspices teresting facts leading to the well- to shut
al resources, proved in so many of the Institute of London Unknown romantic beginning of out 2000 tons respects inferior to the German day he was present at a dinner of freight every voyago, when the Duko of Atholl, who and to make them a succesaj Adiniralty as machine for derwriters, with the object of Lloyd's, from which has evolved was in the chair, made an something had got to be done to preparing sucrose in naval oper- | arousing further interest the present world famed system, excellent spooch, referring carry this extra freight was going
stimulating the enter- Mr. Dick traced development chielly to the economic situato be shut out under present SUNDAY TIMES ("SCRUTATOR"bers of the insurance world. dealt with the several Acts of prise of the younger mem-through numerous stages and Lion, and particularly to labour conditions. He appealed The alarming fact that stand the "ca canny" policy of the for tho introduction in port of out from the battle is that in spite although the origin of marine insurance.
Mr. Dick pointed out that Parliament dealing with marine workmen. Recently he bad the three-shift system, and called of our overwhelming numerical insurance was somewhat obscure, marine insurance had materially He claimed that occasion to compare the costs of for the intervention of the superiority the battle which there were records showing that helped in developing business, for engines built immediately before Ministry of Transport to bring caution provented from being a about 916 B.C. the Rhodians, without the security of a policy of the war with a duplicate set of the various parties together to find desisive victory might have been who had obtained sovereignty of insurance no banker would adv. machiery finished at the begin-a solution which would enable a defeat for us without that the seas, devised a system of ance money for shipment. ning of this year. The labour the shipping industry to go for caution.. costs ought to have been two and ward as it had done in thepast. In
marine jurisprudence, in which After reviewing the evolution three-quarter times the pre-war conclusion, he proposed "Success
*A MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. general average was recognized of ships from wooden sailing price. The cost was divided into to the Fairfield Company."
From start to finish Lord as a commercial custom, although vessels to the modern oil-fuel-fed two auctions-that for labour,
Jellicoe was preoccupied with actual insurance is not referred liner, and making interesting Rear-Admiral Sir carried out by men working on Brownrigg replied, and expressed ships by Gorman technical skill, bonds
Douglas the threat offered to his battle-to. Advances
bottomry references to modern salvage piece, or contract, and that for the hope that the Canadian Pacific mines, submarines, and torpedo form of insurance by the Greeks, deal with the theory of marine was practised as a steamors, Mr. Dick proceeded to time workers. The portion built Company would continue to give craft. on piece worked out exactly in them them their confidence. Noj accordance with the rise in doubt prices were very high all wages, which was two and three-over the world, but, as any rate
If these papers do nothing else, marine insurance was system-of insurance had been built un quarter times the pro-war cost, if the Company came there for they do show that Jellicoe was atized in Lombardy in 1182 A. D. and consisted of the art and but the time labour was vessel they were assured of the yield to his subordinate's judg 1310, when the Count of Fland-be pad and a balance left which aufficiently great, commander to
The first record of the words ability to secure by premium an four aud & half times, so highest quality that could bej
being employed appeared in income from which losses could that actually they would see offered by shipbuilders the worldment in a crisis. clear proof of what was known over, (Applause.)
ers permitted the establishment could be considered as profit. The layman will be disposed to Insurance by means of which statistice demonstrating how mo- in Bruges of a Chamber of The lecturer gave comparativa conclude that Lord Jellicoe was merchants could insure their dera insurance accounts run off justified in adhering to the goods exposed to the risks of and quoted examples of varying practice laid down by the Tactical the sea or elsewhere" by paying rates on hull and cargo in given Board of the Admiralty.
a stipulated percentage.
contended that It is probable that the Hansa marine dader writing demanded merchants introduced the practise individuality, foresight and know- of insurance into England, but it ledge, and a good underwriter was subsequently carried on by had to combine with those the Lombards, who had secured qualities suaviter in modo when from Edward, the ground which dealing with brokers who offered is now known as Lombard-street, į him risks. and by the fifteenth century marine insurance was so well established that there were rules
Be the "ca' danny" policy-that they were not getting value for the money given in wages to the workm n. Happily, he thought BROKE THE SILENCE. ther was every indication. that
The non-observance of the two the super elements in the Trade minutes silence on Armistice Day movemont appreciated was the cause of the appearance
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BINO-JAPANESE MARRIAGES. governing its practices.students and Japanese women is. Intermarriage between Chinese
an existing polley is dated 1913 ment, The Chinese Consul at The earliest exisiting form of prohibited by the Chinese Govern»
that fact, and he thought that in of two workmon before Sheriff report that Jellicoe was right. the near future they would agree Fyfe in Glasgow Munition Tri- to contract work that was piece banal.
The men, who were work with workmen. It was employed in a cooperage attached not v. ry prevalont on the Clyde, to a large chemical works, re- and if it were introduced it would mained at work during the
only keep costs down, but "silence," and by their action WINDSOR QASTLE STATE would give a much higher aroused so much feeling, on the
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