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THE ABUSE OF FLAGS
A Comment on the China Coast.
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1923.
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One needs to make very faw voyages up and down the China Coast or to remain very few days in any of the shipping ports of China to witness the shameful slackness and lack of courtesy that are meted out to the variousį national ensigns, and especially the Red Ensign and: the house flags of the leading shipping cotapanies on the Coast. To take the case of Shanghai, at eight o'clock any morning, as an example: One neods only to stand on the Bund at that hour to witness the disrespectful manner fin which flags are hoisted on most of the merchant vessels in sight. One may, at times, see three or four vessels of the same Company lying near each ether; and it is, nothing unusual to see each in- dividual ship hoisting her colours and house flag at times diffeten: to her neighbours. It seems to be a general practice of flags being hoisted at any old time "and in ang manner but the correct one. Then as regards naval vessels Little or no that are lying near: attention is paid to these ships. which hoist their colours at the proper time and in the correct manner: it is not too much to ask that TULANters of
should chant vessels
Pay a little attention and extend a little respect and courtesy to the naval ships of their coun-
There are always warships tween one ship and another and rediculed by many, and those be in Shanghai harbour and all if, between one company and an- fasks to look back on the traditions them do the right thing at the other, the writer maintains most of the premier Merchant Service right time. As far as merchan: emphatically that this duty should of the world and think for them- ships go, it would take very little controlled and directed by the selves. If they will do so, thes organization on the part of the officer of the watch, and not left cannot but realize and admit that junior officers in instruct the to Celestial quartermaster to dip it is by paying strict attention to quartermasters of the ships in the Ensign almost into the water such duties as have been referred the proper and efficient manner and haul it up again regardless of to that the British Merchant Marine holds the place of respect in which to carry out the import whether the other vessel has ac-
it can boast of to-day. ant duties connected with flugs, knowledged or mit. It is also cus for with a little patience the Ch-tomary, as an act of courtesy clusion, the writer appeals to the masters of vessels on the nese quartermaster is well amen- from one master to another, to
little pay a China Coast to more attention to the handling of flags on their vessels, for. by so doing they will be paying a due respect, to their country and their owners, thereby com- receiving equa! pelling and respect form their employers.
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The writer has no doubt that the foregoing remarks will be
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able to discipline and reasOD. dip according to seniority, the It must not be thought that the junior master first paying his whole of the blame for the pre-respects to his senior. On the vailing slackness in regard to China Coast, there should be flags rests with the junior officers: little difficulty in carrying out most masters far from it the masters are quite this custom. as as much to blames the junior know, fairly accurately, who is officers. The great majority of in command of what ship. the masters now serving in mar- chant vessels on the China Coast have served in sailing ships and Home steamers, and well they know that in the old days, when they themselves were junior officers, it was a crime to be absent from deck at 8 am, or at sun- set. when the flags hosited were and hauled down. Is it therefore.) too much to expect of them tha they will stop the present glaring disrespect of their nation's Dig jund that of their employers Es
it too much to expect them tol insta Hittle discipline in this! resprer into their juniors? Inis af sight very common. both 2) Shanghai and Hongkong to se. at sundown, a Chinese quarter- master commence forward and! haul down the Jack, and then work his way aft till he comes to the Ensign. Then the beautiful old flag is hauled down anyhow. falling in bights under
the counter and nearly into water. instead of receiving the respect that is due to it. How ja body of ships officers expect
their
their governments and owners to respect them if they will not respect the colours and house- flags ? If every individual ship. when in port. would only take the time at 8 am. each day from any one of the warships that might be in port, and make an in- violable rule of so doing, there! would be much less of the pre- ent slackness in regard to flags.
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The writer has seen several in- stances of ships in harbour on the! China Coast waiting to break their flazs at about 8 a.m., with their Ensign rolled into a ball at the flagstaff head in the same man- ner as the house flag. The same! thing has also been seen, quite re-i rently, in the case of a vessel under 4. This hoisting of the Ensign at 8 am is a perfent disgrace. Further, during the day, in most! cases, the Aags are allowed to! flutter in the Frieze, some with halyards hanging in bights and' some not even mastheaded; and: not the slightest attention is paidi to them.
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Then there is the question of. ships at sea-we will take the route from Hongkong to Shanghai: as an example, on which route ships are constantly meeting and passing vessels of their Company and also His Majesty's ships. It is a common sight to see the Ensign dipped from one ship to another from anywhere between four points on the bow end four points on the quarter, in fact from any point except the beam bearing. This duty, in most cases, is left to the quartermaster and little or no attention is paid by the officers on watch to this important duty. As this dipping of flags is a duty of courtesy be
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