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repares has exceeded £25,000,000, VISCOUNT AND GEISHA. The negotiation of the sales of FURTHER HISTORY,

Government-owned merchant vessels was, thanks to the intervention of

IPERIAL GARDEN PARTY, STURT OF A GREAT GOVERNO Lord Inchcape, made much more easy than would otherwise have been the

A general account was given in the previous article, on the activities of the Ministry of Shipping and the successful manner in which its officials grappled with the task of maintaining

maritime transport.

SHAPE (KILDING.

In

LATEST DREADYUL SCANDAL,

W

Japan is evidently going, as Mr.

ever, the trouble did not end there.

MONDAWAMAY

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

JUST RECEIVED

consignment of Smoked Fish direct from the SCOTTISH FISHERIES

Fillets, Haddocks, Kippers.

THE DAIRY FARM, ION & COED STORAGE Co., Ltd.

SUPERSTITIONS.

The shipbuilding situation was an awkward one. The sudden ending of Mantalini world have expressed it, the war found the Ministry with the to the dermition bowwows! "The control of a huge shipbuilding scheme, latest dreadful scandal is in connec which as most of the ships under contion with the imperial Cherry viewing struction were part of the war pro- party a week or so ago. It is said It was pointed out that one of the gramme and were not well adapted for that a certain Viscount took with most important lines of commmica ordinary trading requirements were him a lady, who was not, as his com tion was that traversed by the ships obviously not required. There was painon should have been, the is bringing supplier of food to Great also the recognition by the Ministry counters, but a geisha, and it is said Britain. It was undoubtedly an essen that shipbuilding more perhaps, than that she behaved in an unseemly tial to so alocate the dwindling any other industry is a highly technical manner, though this can hardly bo part of the operations of the Minis tan business which is best left to private befered, since department is one of nage at its disposal as to ensure that enterprise. The exact position was the essentials of a geraba's education. there should be no weakening of the that when the war ended the GoIt is rather surprising, however, after hame front from the perils of ander ment had about 600 ships on order, General Takayanagi's relegation to feeding or the threat of starvation and of these, owing to the state the waiting list for having given Ime The carriage of raw materials, of of the work, it was only found perial cigarettes to a geisha, that the which huge quantities bad to possible 1 cancel the contracts Viscount should be so bold, How- come from overseas,

for the for more than 190 ships. production of munitions, and of all 821 vessels came under the scheme It is well known that when Com REGENTS-PARK BANDITS. material of war, fashioned in the of the Shipping Controller, and had modore Perry came to Japan there United States made another call of an been ordered either at home or abroad. were conveyed to this land some of important character upon mercantile Of these 279 were transferred to the genus that cause their victima tonnage. There was also the trans-vate owners after the armistice, but to acquire souvenirs, and it is said part of troops to the ratious centes from first to last over 100 vessels were that at Imperial banquets it is not

REVOLVER.* HOLD UP. of hostilities, of which the route to built to the order of the Ministry, and common for guests to express their

£2.300 PENSIONS LOOT. France, although the shortest, was those which survived the submarine admiration by pocketing spoons and

Probably most people have, at the most important, and required the campaign, and most of them were forks. This is done, of course, in a in London is searching for the authors are now-placked a daisy and, think greatest measure of protection. Üther afloat at the date of the armistice, perfectly decorous way that attracts of an audacious daylight armed ing of one of the opposite sex, picked The whole available detective force, were young and not so foolish as they some period of their lives-when they theatres of war, Gallipoli and Meso-were disposed of to private owners no attention. At the Cheny-view robbery in Regent's Park Loeden potamis, Egypt and Palestine, and Then there were the ill-fated National ing party, however, decure was not Italy, made large demands upon the Shipyards which had to be sold ander so strictly observed. The propriety motor van in the park, freatened saying at the same time "He loves.

Three men with, revolvers stopped.

the petals of the fower one by one maritime transport facilities availcircumstances which are now familiar able to Great Britain and her Allies to most people, the liquidation of recognised, its abstraction has to be after driving away looted the vehicle he loves me, all is well It taking cutlery not being officially death if they raised an alarm, and last petal picked coincides with the driver and three sccupants with me; he loves me not" if the ing achievement, in this field was the under which we were committed to an quite diferent when it comes to They left behind them £300 or £400

Undoubtedly, however, the crown the concrete shipbuilding programme effected mostantationsly, but it is of about £2,300 in Treasury notes, with "he loves me not all is wrong. provision of the ships required to expenditure of £8,000,000, the settle cakes. On the subject of cakes the in silver, place a large body of United States ment of the scheme of shipyard ester etiquette of the East is quite different

There are several modifications of troops in France at a critical stage in sion grants, and the sales of material from that of the West. In the West by the Ministry of Fensions left the very wide-spread. Empires have risen With the Toro Kisen Kaisha and the land waz. If the Ministry of which had been accumulated for the it is quite in order to eat as much cake Fensions Office in Regent's park for and vanished away, civilizations have this superstition of daisy picking, hok A light Ford motoran, hired this is the most common one and it is the Osaka Shosen Kaisha making the Shipping had to be judged by any one hulls of fabricated ships. The ship as the guest has the capacity for hold Acton with 2,600 to pay the wazes. flourished and decayed to be succeded port a regular call for its transpacific performance, those who were respons building business 125 a bugeing, but it has to stop there. In the of the local clerks. Herbert Frederick by new ones, since boy and girl firs Rand was the driver, and accompany sought to know the hearts of their

HEAD OFFICE & SHOW ROOM IN PEDDER STREET.

SHIPPING NEWS.

JAPANESE SHIPOWNERS.

INDIVIDUAL TONNAGES COMPARED.

tons.

—

FIRE IN TRAMP SHIP.

N

time. The Ziyi supposes, therefore, that a 20 per cent. dividend will be about the figure.

DEVELOPMENT OF DAIRES,

STEAMSHIP OFFICERS' SALARIES.

a

PRESENT POSITION.

a

LOVE AND DAISIES,

.:

For the first time in history Chinese

A table published recently by the and Europear liners, Dairen is assum-ible for ita working would perhaps business undertaking, and it was only East, one should eat as little cake asing him were Mr. Grant, cashier, Mẹ loved ones by placking the petals of Japanese Shipowners' Association ing new importance as a shipping elect to take the transport of so large subsidiary to the main work of the possible abil carry the rest home Miller, his assistant, and Ernest shows that the Nippon Yusen Kaisha centre in the Orient says Pacific Ports an army in so short space of time as Ministry which had been that of pro- There are tales of big madeira cakes Savidge, messenger employed at the daisy and still the practice goes heads the list of owners with 486,101 Dairen is one of the fastest growing the best test of efficiency. tors to its credit, the Osaka Shosen ports in the Far East. It is the second

viding tonnage for transport under and even of ice puddings disappearing the Pensions Office Kaisha being second with 403.859 port of China, a total of $269,205,413

SOME STATISTICS.

conditions of growing stringency. The into capacions sleeves. The Eastern: Just before the van reached York chosen for this incantation is signi tons. Next in order come the Koku- representing the value of its foreign terest as indicating the extent of the pert knowledge of the business in- are not left entirely out, as they have who had been loitering near there that is the sun, and looking at the A few figures will perhaps be of in- bilities called for the exercise of er did not come to the entertainment ing to Marylebone-road, three men-day's eye, anglo-saxon daiges eage, task of shedding these hage respons-way has its good points. Those who Gate, on the inner circle route lead, ficant of the origin of the superstition on. The very name of the flower sai Kisen Kaisha (318,031 tons), the trade in 1919, or 15.1 per cent of the services rendered. From the date of valved, financial judgment, and the the spoils that are brought back and who, it is said, had been seen in daisy the reason of its being so named Toyo Kisen Kaisha (101,683 tons) total trade. The South Manchurian the beginning of the war to the com-quality of tact. and the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha (80,205 Railroad Company is carrying on petition of the work of demchilisa- tons). The Yamashita Kisen Kaisha extensive harbour work at Dairertion, although this covers 3 longer Even to-day, when the Ministry is ing party. Ladies anxious to achieve Ofice and at the same time raised a OWLS 47,935 tons while the Mitsu The company supplies coal worked at period than the Ministry of Shipping in the official sense coming to an end, the felicity of giving their children revolver at him and told him not to ing to some of the legends, her home This it was that caused the worst of the park for two or three days before, is apparent. Now Freyja, the god bishi Shoji Kaisha has 25,234 tons its collieries at a specially reduced has been in existence, no fewer than there is a vast amount of work remain cakes from the Imperial table are make a noise. The other two men.

the unseemliness at the Cherry-view-stopped the van. One of them asked dess of love in the old Scandinavian and the Naayo Yusen Kaisha 14,808 rate to vessels calling at the port 33,000,000 men and 60,000,000 tons of ing to be done in the liquidation of said to have scrambled for them as both of whom, it is said, were armed, in the sun; and she thus became the driver the way to the Pensions mythologies and whose cult spread The accommodating capacity of the war material were transported in the business of controlling and maca-though they were getting on to a went to the back of the van and associated in the minds of her wor over northern Germany, had accord- The s.3. Kyodo Mari" No. 13 5,000,000 tons, but is expected to be performance does not stand to the of the world's shipping in addition to are said to have got much more then occupants to leave, which they Im sun. Therefore it was most fitting harbour is at present approximately British vessels. What credit for this ging through agents about 75 per cent.tram-car in the rush hour, and some peremptorily ordered the three other shippers with the daisy--the Lower- (2,002 tons) owned by a Japanese enlarged to 10,000,000 tons in the sccount of the Ministry of Shipping all the other auxiliary activities which their share shipowner of Tokushima Prefecture, near future. Price of coal, supplied belongs at least to sailed from Hongkong on April 15 by the company to vessels calling at Mercantile Marine, of which the be done through the Board of Trade. with 700 tons of sundries for Darren. Dairen is about X5 or Y6 per ton less Ministry became Controller at the end

the British have been indicated. This work will

mediately did. About 10 a.m. on April 21, as she than the rate at Nagasaki, so that of 1918.

Perhaps this should only be taken, Then the three bandits entered the love.

to consult the day upon matters of was at about 36 deg. 6 min. N. L and steamer of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha

as evidence that the artificial distan, and the driver, with a revolver The altars of Fryjs have long It would, however, be an omission tinctions between the sexes and the raised at his neck, was ordered to crumbled to dust; but young men aur 123 deg. E. L., the hatch of hold No. 1 consuming about 3,000 tons of coal ordinary demand has been made upon ping industry that thanks to Sit But the Chuo (the Government paper) off by the robbers in the direction of the popular song, that # Every daisy Ever since the amnistice an extra-placing on record the sense of the ship expression are dying out in Japan of the van, which was then driven loved ones believing, in the words of to allow the Ministry to pass without naturel repression of feminine self the square Rand was told to get out flower to learn the hearts of their was opened, and to the amazement of in a single voyage can save about the Ministry to supply tonnage Joseph Maclay and

drive to Russell square. On reaching maidens still consult her symbolic the crew, black smoke was seen rising Y15,000 or Y20,000 by taking coal at Troops and prisoners of war and co-operation he obtained from a means so optimistically as this. The was found abandoned in Mockien, in the dell knows the secret, knowa in a thick cloumn. All hands were Dairen, according to the Dairen material have had to be moved from large number

the loyal does not regard the matter by any Eston. Shortly, afterwards the van called out to put out the fire, the authorities. funnels and other openings having

the various theatres of war, transport shipping, whose efforts

of experts za been closely sealed. At the same

recent unseemly conduct on the part burgb-square, Bloomsbury. The it well.” provided for the maintenance of this case at least ably seconded by garden party," it says," reminds us appeared, but ore 300 in silver, The American Steamship Owners' armies in Mesopotamia, North Russia, the civil servants who conducted

were of some of the visitors to the Imperial] £2,300 in Treasury, notes had dis- time, the ship was steered shoreward Association with headquarters in and the Near East; colliers and store, the administrative side, the Ministry of the lack of social morality, among which was presumably too heavy to girls will take part in the Far Eastem to provide against emergency. By 1 New York City, decided at the annual ships provided for Admiralty ser- of Shipping was the best managed of itself at every turn. This shows in p.m. the flames were got under control, meeting held recently, to reduce the vice, and ships for the repatriation all the Government war departments. an unmistakable manner the unsata ployees who had been driven out of Bar on the athletic fields and in the and the ship was put back to her wages of officers and men abroad of ex-enemy subjects from the Dorain-There is only this to add: There is factory growth of social morality in the police by telephone of the extra world honours. In the Philippine

the Japanese people which manifests carry away, was left in the van. counts The fire was extinguished vessels and to abolish overtime per ions and the Colonies. The movement reason to believe that when the full the country and it is desirable that ordinary occurrence, and Rand him. Islands every school and organisation Meanwhile one of the three end the Western countries girls are fami

version of the Olympic Games. In at about 3.30 p.m. In addition to The intention to uphold the present of troops alone from the date of the sccounts are disclosed for public in everything should be done to cul- self also communicated with the has its girls indoor baseball team and the cargo destroyed and damaged by agreement with the sea unions and armistice to the end of July last information and criticism and its his tivate this important virtue among police as soon as he was liberated at the young Filipinos take great interest the van at Regent's Park informed swimming tanks, even competing for fire, a good deal of loss was caused by the Officers' Association until the volved the provision of accommodatory written, the record will be cue the people. It is an anomalous state Russell-square.

affirmed, but the shipowners declared be conveyed not only to British ports, of the Ministry may have legitimate dividually and at home men of contracts lapse by termination was tion for dearly 8,000,000 who had to of which those engaged in the service of affairs that Japanese, who are in- in unmistakable terms that there but to Canada, Australia and New pride. UNION STEAMSHIP COMPANY.

would be a cut effective from May 1 Zealand, to the United States, zo ALLuncament has been made of

faultless and irreproachable manners, the taking over of the Union Scam-

The strides that the motorship is China, During the same period the South Africa, the West Indies and

are liable to behave in an unbecom- ship Company, with head offices at making in the

It was reported recently that a ing manner in trams, trains and other Dunedin, New Zealand, by the Penin- is indicated by the fact that the supervision of British requisitioned an American port because she had interior quality of the Japanese as.a shipping Ministry has had responsibility for Japanese steamer had been seized at public places. This is not due to the sular and Oriental Line. There is there are some talk of head offices of the Union of this type under constraction ships, the management of Govern-intoxicating liquor on board. A people but may be largely attabuted Company being transferred to London, in various parts of the world. Lloyds requisitioned vessels, the liquidation of British ships for the same offence the nation was brought up during Peking, May 6-With regard to

ment owned vessels, and neutral question recently rose as to seizing to the peculiar atmosphere in which while others are inclined to the opinion reported that the building under way the shipbuilding programme entered under the Prohibition Lawa. It is feudal times. It is necessary that the situation, at Canton and the pro- that the head offices. will be represented about 495,000 gross tons into by the Ministry, sales of ships, and now stated that as a result of confer- this national weakness berertified and posed expedition against Dr. Sun tinkering with the tariffs in Japan. transferred to Wellington,

the on January 1, 1921. During the past the preparation of British claims rela ences between the British Embassy the growth of social morality, e-Yat-sen, it is stated that various capital of New Zealand. It seems year there were 24 ocean going motor- ting to shipping." It is sometimes for at Washington and representatives couraged, as otherwise this short members of the Provincial Assembly The Mainichs informe us that, owing probable that the latter plan will ships put into commission the largest gotten that until the middle of last of the various shipping interests with coming will seriously militate against and representatives of the Gentry to the many and great changes in prevail. This company has a large number ever completed in a previous year the whole of the British Mercan- the State Department, the Depart the reputation of Japan and the and Maltarists of Kwangtong recently prices and markets, the present tariff number of passenger and freight 12-month period. steamers that ply chiefly in the Of the 170 motor ships building ment control, and that the super- with a view to securing a modification The

tie Marine remained under Government of Justice will be approached Japanese in the eyes of the world, telegraphed to the Central Govern has become almost abeunt, says the Australasian trade.

between 40 and 50 are on order in the vision of some 2,000 requisitioned of the recent ruling under Prohibition paid by

care should be ment, while others came themselves Japan Chronicle. It could hardly United Kingdom, while the majority vessels continued until release. In Laws which would have the effect of cultivation It is reported by the 7iji that the of the other are under construction addition the Ministry was responsibarring vessels with intoxicating limong the rising generation as other Teen The Government, howeve, and we are grouped by this time best educationists in the to Peking, to ask the Government to be more absurd than it always was charcholders' meeting of the Nippon in the Scandinavian countries and in ble for the management of about 550 quiors on board from all United States fise the appellation a country of assay announced, desires to

of social morality send an expedition against Dr. San Anyhow, there are to be changes, Yusen Kaisha for this term will be Holland and Germany. It is antici called on the May 30. The staff of pated that fully half of the 170 vessels ships either Government-owned or ports. Embarrassing complications gentlemen, as, Japan is frequently the company expresses its inability will be put in commission during the neutral requisitioned or time chartered might arise," says the Washington called by her sons, will become a to give an exact figure as to this term's present year, adding from 700,000 to vessels and also took over a number of correspondent of the New York Tapes, deplorable dividend, as no statements have been 800,000 tons to the motor ship fleets ex-enemy vessels lying in foreign if efforts were made to apply this rul- Chronicle. received from one or two branches of the world.

the water.

The ship arrived at Dairen on the evening of April 24.

X.Y.K.'S DIVIDEND,

But the Osaka naper estimates this term's profits at some Y5,000,000, in

addition to Y2,800,000 brought for-

ward from last term. The company

will prefer to maintain a high rate of dividend, but will not, as it declares,

touch the reserves for equalising

ADVANCE OF MOTORSHIP,

ocesn

now about 170 vessels.

+1

NOW IS THE TIME.

ports and carried out the work of re-ing to foreign ships, but the Assistant pair. The supervision of repairs and Secretary of the Treasury announced Balvage has been in itself a task call at the beginning of March that,

utmost

imisnomer.”

Japan

CHINA'S CHAOS.

CIVIL WAR?

PROPOSED EXPEDITION AGAINST DR, SUN.

ve civil war, and so nothing has

been done in this respect.

..:

in all varieties of athletics, Chinese girls have taken part in athletica but little and never have been seen j action in the Far Easterns, This year at the Olympics over 500 Chinese girls will take part in a programime of games demonstration. There will be 30 different groups, each group de.. monstrating some moden form of recreation

There seems to be no end to the

year a though reform. It is hardly

to be expected that the new tau will be any mars reasonable than the old. All the recent reforms have been in the direction of making things worse instead of better. There are even duties on steel which are calculated except the abamni one of steel-making, Eastbourne, Summer, was the scene now almost confined to Government

Mr. T. B. Brown, XBE., KIME, who left property valued at £21,511, bequeathed the roadne of his estate

to various charitable organisations, to handicap every industry in Japan

ing for careful management and ex-pending the outcome of the conference Despite the efforts of the Govern OR rheumatism you will find nothing milding. It will give an indication ng action be taken under the Prohibi- Kingdom continues to increase. On of a tragedy. In the presence of his fondres, which, with all their pro

pert knowledge of shipping and ship with the Government's legal advisers, ment, employment in the United better than Chamberlain's Pain of the volume of work involved in tion Laws. In this case it is strange March 18 the total of men, women, 12-year-old son, Leonard J. Horne tection, lose immense suum: every Balm Now is the time to get rid of it. this connection if it is stated that the that the Japanese vessel has been boys, and girls out of work reached qusmelled with his wife at the tea-year. The new duties, are to be Try this liniment and see how quickly

will ralieve the pain and orange total expenditure during the past two seized. Possibly, the legal advisers 1,376,900 as against 355,526 on Jann- table and seirings sporting gun mostly specific, which will flow others For sale by all Chemists and Store and a-half years on various classes of the Government have now decided ary 7. Over £1,000,000 is being paid mortally wounded her. He then com- save infiare dispats and may dave

to put the law in operation.

weekly in unemployment doles. mitted suicide,

dividends, sa they are not of a nature to be appropriated at the present keepers.

good many faked invoice

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