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Hong Kong Annual Administration Reports, 1841-1941
COLONIAL REPORTS-ANNUAL.
combined with a decrease of 7.2 per cent. in numbers. Decreases are shown under Russian (64.7 per cent. in numbers and 68.3 per cent. in tonnage), Portuguese (30.5 per cent. in numbers and 20.3 per cent. in tonnage), United States (24.1 per cent. in numbers and 22.2 per cent. in tonnage), Danish (20 per cent. in numbers and 11.1 per cent. in tonnage). French shipping remains constant in numbers but decreases by 25.1 per cent. in tonnage, Swedish, while increasing by 20 per cent. in numbers, declines by 38.9 per cent. in tonnage, and Italian shipping disappears altogether.
The average tonnage of foreign ships entering has decreased to 1,977.
In the junk trade there is the enormous increase of 3,552 vessels of 355,349 tons, or 54.2 per cent. in numbers and 46.1 per cent. in tonnage. It is obvious that no such phenomenal alteration can have taken place in the trade since the outbreak of war, but the explanation is simple. Since war commenced, no vessel can enter or leave the harbour without reporting herself, by reason of the Examination service, so that, of the junks trading with Victoria Harbour, which means about 90 per cent. of those trading with the Colony, we are now able to account for all, which was very obviously not the case before.
The actual numbers of individual ocean-going vessels of European construction entering during 1914 was 825, of which 385 were British and 440 were foreign. In 1913 the corresponding figures were 791, 361 British and 430 foreign.
These 825 ships measured 2,155,018 tons. They entered 4,226 times, and gave a collective tonnage of 8,468,609 tons. Thus, 34 more ships entered 221 less times, and gave a collective tonnage reduced by 405,197 tons, an average of 1,833.4 tons per entry.
The 385 British ships carried 3,766 British officers and 12 foreign officers, the latter consisting of 5 U.S.A., 2 Dutch, 2 Danish, 2 German, and 1 Norwegian.
Thus, the proportion of foreign officers in British ships was 0.32 per cent. comprising 5 nationalities, an increase of 0.02 per cent. with an increase in the number of officers and of ships.
The 440 foreign ships carried 3,082 officers, of whom 94 were British, as follows:-
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