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1904-1919

HONG KONG, 1915.

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Thus, the proportion of foreign officers in British ships was 0.90 per cent. comprising 4 nationalities, an increase of 0.58 per cent. with a decrease in the number of officers and of ships.

The 414 foreign ships carried 3,312 officers, of whom 66 were British, as follows:-

1914 1915 In Chinese ships 84 55 Japanese ships 6 7 United States ships 4 0 French ships 4 4 94 66

Thus, 1.99 per cent. of the officers serving in foreign ships were of British nationality, with a decrease in number of officers and of ships.

The nationality of the crews in British and in foreign ships was as follows:

VESSELS BRITISH CREW EUROPEANS AND ASIATICS AMERICANS 1914 1915 1914 1915 1914 1915 British 385 310 24,264 20,253 866 901 Foreign 440 414 1,571 1,155 24,428 10,791 Total 825 724 25,835 21,408 25,294 11,692

Hence in British ships:

1914 1915 15.13% of the crews were British. 0.54% 1.08% 0.91% 0.60% of the crews were other Europeans. 84.33% 85.83% of the crews were Asiatics.

And in Foreign ships:

1914 1915 16.93% 8.53% of the crews were other Europeans. 81.98% 90.56% of the crews were Asiatics.

TRADE.

The figures and statistics which here follow are not necessarily strictly accurate as they are derived from the reports by masters of ships, and not from ship's manifest, as they would be in the case of a port that was not free, and where all cargo would have to pass through a Customs House.