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complate success in the early stages of a revolutionary development, says the Motor Ship.

Having accomplished so much in this short period, we may panse to consider what the position may be when another 10 years have passed na by. Already in some countries, like Sweden, where the largest exa perience: of motor ships, in comparison with steamers, has been obtained, there are more motor ships building and on order than steamere. It is not, therefore, un TALBODEBÈT BLUPPpos that befors the and of the Best 10 years at least 50 per smk at the new tonnage ordered will bengusaf with oil-engines, even if

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LIMITATION OF DECK

CARGOES.

IMPORTANCE TO UNITED STATES OF PROPOSAL OF FOREIGN MARITIME

FOWERS.

The proposal of foreign maritime powers for the limitation or total pro- bibition of deck cargoes and the establishment of an international load

line, is of the greatest importance to American shipping.

PARABLES OF SAFED THE SAGE.

THE PARABLE OF COMPARA-

TIVE SIZES.

'I sat with men in the place where men gather in a Pullman car, and they spake every man of the size of his City, and of the rapidity of its growth. And I reproved them not, for I like at always to be preaching, but I was thinking.

And one of them spake unto me, and said, What is the size of the city wherein thou dwellest ↑

According to despatches received no techinical advance is made in their from Geneva, Switserland, by Ernest

And I said, It is larger than Athens construction. For it must be remem Greenwood, American Correspon would it were doing as much for the was in the day of its power, and I bered that, although the present-day internal combustion engine cannot be dent of the International Labour world as Athers did; and it is several of foreign times as large as Bethlehem, and before to obtain the control of this built for high speed liners, it is con- Office, representatives Dutch company, namely, in 1906, structed on standardised lines in such governments, shipowners and seamen larger than Nazareth ever can hope when the Hamburg-America Line and sizes as are suitable for over 90 per on the Joint Maritime Commission to be the North German Lloyd made a bid cent. of the world's tonnage.

And they were silent. And I said, of the International Labour Or!

In this country of ours, cities have for 60 per cent, of the share capital

It is, therefore, no dream of the of the Holland-South America Line enthusiast, but a practical probability, ganisation, are in unanimous agree

grown, and all so rapidly that we The report of the Hambure which was then in difficulties and was that some 200 large motor ships will bs meat as to the peed of international gown and other material things have Chamber of Commerce for 1921 refers transformed into the Royal Dutch required annually from the shipyards action in the matter. Whether this shall do well to consider lest we to the agreement concerning State Lloyd. A Dutch concern made the of Great Britain before the end of the action will take the form of regula think too much of hugeness and bot very ike- tions based on the present British enough of those qualities which make compensation to the skipping same bid as Germany and carried the

ly much earlier. This figure is rules, as is desired by the seamen, city or a country really worth while. coboars, according to which a day.

The Howaldt yard in Kiel, which significant, for at the present moment or whether modified regulations will For the al question is not how many aggregate compensation of 1,200,000,- 000 marks was settled in February. Pays 24 per cant. dividend for the last we doubt very much whether the be adopted, as the shipowners prefer, noses of fools the censusman may The distribution of this sum was left financial year, as against 20 per cent machinery for anything approaching remains to be settled It is said that count, but how Ene is the publick body of for the previous twelve months is this number of oil-engined vessels a radical divergence of opinion also spirit, and how safe and prospérons to and intelligent and righteous be tha representatives of shipyards and well supplied with orders for the cur- could be built in the United Kingdom. exists among the delegates as shipowners, under the name of the rent year; these orders will also keep Very few engine works are in a whether regulations should authorize falls.

And I said, Shipbuilding Bank, Hamburg, says the yard partly employed for the rear position to turn out the machinery for specific rules restricting the height

A thing is Lot necessarily great be following. This in spite of the yard Engineering.

hig, nor big became it is As eficient distribution of this sum having been deprived of a number of more than half a dozen fairly large and weight of deck cargoes, or whether was impeded by alterations in the contracts for new vessels on account to the vessels annually. This is due they should permit the certifikation out specifically for oil-engine, con- deck cargoes, according to type, and

And I considered Keturah, how the German home prices and by the of the State not having been able ful- to the fact that the ships are not laid of vessels as fit for the carriage of

top of her head cometh only to the adverse necessity of spending 60. per ly to carry out its promises of help straction, and also because, in many with or without a special lord line.

It is contended by the seamen's shoulder of her husband, and all, ber cent of the amount on or orders towards the reconstruction of the cases, steam-engine builders are abl

many lives

sony tower above her, and say, Little to German shipyards. This pre- German merchant navy. The repair refusing to take any action in the organizations that vented German shipowners from of vessels, especially foreign ones, has direction of the construction of marine have been lost and many men Mother, baste thee, and grow; for injured at zes cach year by thou art the littlest one in the family; contemplating the possibility of buy-materially contributed to the satisfac internal combustion machinery.

tory result. The company's share in

We wish to bring out this point in the carriage of deck cargoes. It is and how even her daughter, is more ing back on a somewhat large scale the Holstein iron works at Rendsburg order to show that there is much to be the hope of the scamen to have tall than her mother. former German vessels. The assump is said to have been gold to the Bom done in the marine engineering the British regulations used as a basis! But I could not love Keturah more tion that one third of the former bach iron works on favourable terms. industry in Britain before it in the adoption of international if she weighed thres hundred pounds. German tonnage could be rebuilt by

The Deutsche Werke Company, the in position to cope with all the regulations: On the other band the the aid of the compensation fund

to prevail among former Imperial yard at "Kiel," and demanda likely to arise within the opinion seems would

ander the appear, circumstances to be an extremely the works at "Spandau," in which the course of the next few years. The shipowners and shippers that the

regulations problematical one. Wages and the German State" is interested to the present slump cannot last for evez. British extent of 100,000,000 marks of firdeed.

elasticity it shows

faint stringent and Bome prices for shipbuilding steel are now considerably higher than in February, ordinary shares and 330,000,000 signs of breaking, and, when it might usefully be introduced into dose, not only will more oil-engine the rules. The shippers point out 1921. The plan of the buying burean for ship steel, according to which participate in a dividend above 5 per builders be required, but those manu- certain cormalities sung out of material would be delivered in future/cent, has, rather late in the day,facturers who have already taken up the strict application of the British state the object of the visit of the issued its report for the period June the construction mast in many in- rules, and mention two specific cases, to the German shipyards only on the 17 to December 31, 1920. Of the stances provide better equipment for one. the case of a turret-deck ship Right Hon. Srinivasa Sastri to the!

basis of foreign exchanges, appears to be simply prohibitive and liable to frustrate the solution of the unemploy ment problem, an end which was also in view when the compensation agreement was entered into."

German shipping particularly re- grete that it is handicapped in many Countries; thus German boats are excluded from coasting traffic in Sweden;"Italy, also, has deprived Germany of shipping. In the United States the Alien Tonnage tax bas to be paid. Britain supports her own passenger trafic. The Dardanelles are still closed to the German fag, nor are German vessels allowed to enter any ports in Morocco. We may here add that all these measures are most mild compared with those which Germany would probably have taken had she won the war.

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MR. SASTRI'S DOMINION TOUR.

5. CORD TYRES

In the course of a lenghty com- muniqué the Government of India

Dominions is to assist the Dominion

profitz, amounting to 171,400,000 the work than they now possess. Too which could only be safely sent to sea marks, general expesos absorbed much thought cannot be given at the with a deck cargo; the second case 57,800,000 marks and reserves and writings of 113,100,000 marks. Both present moment to the possibilities of was that of a ship being penalized at at "Eiel" and "Spardan "snumber it will be a stigma upon the ship loaded, owing to bar having rejected of workmen had to be discharged in

building and marine engineering a deck cargo in America, because of the course of the period under review. industry if it has to be said that the penalties she would incur in Great The fact that the company had to shipowners were advanced enough Britain for overloading. 6nd employment for a larger percent in their ideas to wish for oil. age of badly disabled men than other engined vessels, but had perforce, concerns is said to have bad a detto place orders for steamers, on mental effect upon the fipsacial results.

the next few years' development, for Hamburg for being insufficiently granting to Indians the Dominion

TEN TEARS OF MOTOR SHIPBUILDING.

since

It is almost exactly 10 years the "Selandia," which, apart from

account of the difficulty of getting motor ship machinery built in Britisk yards. Such a situation may well! arise in the likely event of a heary demand arising for oil-engined vessels.

When

a Grimsby man reached the "Vulcanus" and "one or two home he remembered leaving his over- other much smaller boats, was the coat at a place four miles away. A first large ocean-going motor ship to search was made and his dog was be built, entered the Thames." At the found keeping guard over it. present time there are cil-engined vessels in regular service totalling well

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Goverments to give affect to the Imperial Conference resolution by parliamentary franchise wherever they do not now possess it. The op- portunits will also be taken of discuss- ing with Dominion authorities various other outstanding ques- | tions of importance to India. The e This is the first time the question will include the position of Indians in has been discussed by both shipowners mandated territories, working of im- and reamen. It has long been a migration laws, the manner in which matter for discussion among ship India could co-operate in sa Imperial owners, conferences having been held wireless chain," and the admission

students at Paris it May, 1921, at Madrid in of Jadiso

to Colonial October, 1913, and at The Hague in Universities. August, 1911. The sesmen them. Mr. Sastri will be accompanied by selves have gone into the matter at Mr. G. S. Bajpai, LC.S., sa private The deputation leaver meetings at Washington and Antwerp. secretary.

The present joint conference is Colombo for Australia this month and made possible by the establishment after visiting Australia, New Zealand of the Joint Maritime Commission by and Canada will return to India vis the International Labour Organiza- the United Kingdom. tion, an autonomous suscciation of 54 nations established under the The Peace Treaty of Versailles. present negotiations involve Belgium, Japan Great Britain Sweden, Canada, France, Italy, Norway and Germany, these countries being represented on

Germany, however, is endeavouring to extend her shipping in various ways, and in Holland, amongst other countries. This refers more especially

The unus of a Catholic order, re to the Royal Dutch Lloyd, but this over 2,000,000 tons deadweight. scheme is said to have of late ex- When it is remembered that the years presentatives of which are now in perienced financial difficulties. The of war were practically a blank, so Sydney from all parts of the State, furt German bid is understood to far as British motor shipbuilding was are to have a three-weeks' course in have been declined as inadequate, concerned, it will not be denied that physical culture under the instruction negotiations are, however, being pro- progress has been remarkably sapid- of Lieut. Hatfield, physical training this commission.-N. . Maritime ceeded with. Germany tried once as rapid, indeed, a is consistent with officer for the 1st Infantry Division.

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