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The caso arising out of the col A new case is reported to have lision between H.M.S. Cairo and A notable speech delivered by arisen in which a steamer in a port the steamship Chokiang was be Herr Rudolf Blohm, one of Gen- on the Continent took In'cargo for fore the House of Lords on June many's leading shipbuilders, the Pacific Coast. which
case 18, when the House allowed the last week's meeting of the con- illustrates the necessity for ad appeal from a decision of the Court 'gress of German iron and steel 'in-hering to the condition of the cargo of Appeal värying a decision of dustrialists at Hamburg was fol as specified in the bill of lading the President, whereby he affirmed dwed with koonest interest. After instead of accepting the so-called the assessment of damages by the his statement to the effect that the backletters."
Registrar and Merchants. German yarda had only sufficient In the port in question it has The question raised by the up- work to employ them to one-sixth been the castom to issue clean peal
to the measure of their output capacity, hblls of lading and ve accept damages which the Admiralty were audience awaited with some backletters" from.. sound and entitled to recover in respect of curiosity the practica: suggestions known firma, and bank guaranted the loss of the use of the Cairo to be anticipated from such a high are demanded only in individual and the pay and allowances of the authority for remedying the plight Cases. The agents have therefore officers and men during the period of the shipbuilding industry, and been accustomed to accept, "back of necessary ropatr. warmly applauded him when he in letters" without apegial agreement the most explicit language, warned and without entering closely into 22.1921, near Hankow, and] German Industrialistą against tak-the individual conditions." In the damaged the stem of the Cairn,) ing the line of least resistance and reported case, for the sake of Temporary repaire were affected at pinning their faith to a policy of safety, it was prescribed in the bill Hankow, but in order to render the State aid.
of lading that the ship should not vessel efficient for any service she Bad Economica.
be responsible for damage result-might be called upon to undertake Gloomy as were the present pros-ing from ruat or careless handling, it was essential that permanent re- pects, said Herr Blöhm, it would On the cargo being discharged it pairs should be effected. Accord- the Cairo sailed from be the greatest mistake in the was found that a part of it was so ingly. world for Germany to have recourse ruined by rust and external damage Hankow' on September 2, and ar He that it only fetched a purely scrap rived at Hongkong on the 5th, to a system of subsidies. viewed with great misgivings the price.
where the damage was inspected tendency "visible in the last year If the receiver's claim against by the Chief Constructor at His or so on the part of the Govern- the ship comes to be settled before Majesty's Dockyard,
to help this or that ship-an American court, as is quoted by provisionally arranged that ment building yard out of a critical Goteborgs Handels och Sjofart-Cairo should commence her situation by granting it a share in stidning, it is most probable that nual refit on December 11, 1921,
when the points of support will be and
damage the special State loan created for both the use of shipbuilders. He de worthless. The court will certain examined and it was seen that it nounced this procedureins economi- ly not accept any "backletters," as would take some little time to re- cally unsound. it simply meant in former similar cases it was pair, it appeared to the dockyard can lead to officers to be a suitable opportunity that arms that for one reason or considered that such
the bill of lading to effect the annual repairs at the another were unable to compete the holder of
same time, and recommendation had to be kept going at the expense being defrauded. of the others, thus depressing, the Moreover. It is probable that a to that effect was made by them to general level of output. Such single reservation that a ship is the Commander-in-Chief.". policy, instead of encouraging not responsible for damage for ren The collision repairs and the fa
or external injury) ft work
commenced on better economic organisation and sons of rust vitalising produétion, had the very cannot exempt the ship from re-September 7 and were continued to The Registrar found as it killed the sponsibility if the rust or careless October 29. wifeet. spirit of self-reliance and initia- handling causes damage of a more that if nothing but collision
Such State aid, said Herr Important character. - The ship pairs had been effected the workį Elohm., would in the long run would therefore have to pay full could have been concluded in 20 Parties of the officers and; lead to nationalisation and social compensation for the damage, and days. isation. and would turn business the ship can then endeavour to get crew assisted in the reft work. On men inte mere State pensioners, a corresponding amount from the April 9, 1924, the defendants the He advised the Government, rather charterers with the aid of the avall owners of the Cheking) admitted
"backletter." able
Possibly the ability for the collision subject to to employ the large surpluses now derived from taxation towards letter will then refuse to pay on a reference. The plaintiff's claim- lessening, the burden of taxation onjaccount of the amount of the com- ed inter alla) (Item 2) in respect or because the of the use of the Cairo from those industries which, like shiv-pensation mude building, had to bear the brunt of greater part of the damage to the August 28 to September 27, 1921. international competition. Such goods took place on board, in which s6 days, at £100 per day, this sum surpluses in the Budzet ought not, ease American law considers the representing 5 per cent. interest he said. to be arbitrarily dis-ship responsible. In Europe some on the capital value of the ship at of the courts have decided that the time of the colligion, and (Item tributed among individual firms "backletters form a kind of cou-33 pay and allowances of the offi :Bad-recently-been-done.
spiracy between the ship and the cors and men. £7.460 17s. 4d., for Stilling Individuality.
charterer that the poor ship-the like period, these being the Berr Blohm regarded it as a owner finds himself having to pay actual amount expended. The dangerous symptom that, all peliti-compensation for, practically the Registrar allowed nothing in re-i cal parties, even those of the Right.whole consignment, and in his turn spect of the time from August 22 had not only participated in such is unable to recover the amount to September
He allowed) a policy but had ever encouraged with the support of the ** buck-") damages for loss of time for 20
If there was any industry letter."
Contrary
tive.
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&
thoroughly unsuitable for national-
ising experiments, it was ship-
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ship was an extremely individual ing the shipbuilding industry product. Ships could not be tarn rely only on hard work and in
dependence. Thus alone could it ed out or, sold like mass produsta as coal and iron, and it was for be rescued from the fate at pre-
sent threatening it.. this reason that the idea mooted last year for a holding company or trust to include all Germany's ship- In discussing the shipping out-gistrar's report.
The Court of Appeal (Lorda building yards" was so thoroughly look, Herr Blohm attributed most impracticable. Nationalisation in of the embarrassment now being Justices Bankes and Atkin and by shipowners and Mr. Justice Lawrence) varied the shipbuilding, said Herr Blohm lin-encountered
Germany to the order of the President by referring pressively, would inevitably lead shipbuilders in
of the state-owned the report back to the Registrari to the decay of the art of ship competition
for further consideration. The building, and unless German ship flects of the United States.
The advent of the United States grounds of the decision were that: building were carried on as an art,] it might as well be given up fleet had, he said, made the uphill the amount which the Admiralty: altogether: -in-every-industry-the ght of German shipping since the were entitled to recover in respect truss system tended towards the war still more difficult. In 1914 of loss of the use of the Chiro exclusion of the vital individual Germany, with her 5,100,000 gross for the services of her crew de element, and of personal contact, registered tons, had owned 10.pended on what was 'the use which, The trust was in this respect per cent. of the world's tonnage; but for the collision, they could halfway house to nationalisation. to-duy, despite her tireless effort, have had of the ship and her crew, The fact that here and there dur-he had reached only 2,000,000 and of, which they were deprived ing the past year a ship had been. tons, or about 5 per cent. of the by reason Bull with State aid would, in the world's present aggregate long run, signify no real benet. either to the shipping or shipbuild. Herr Blohm also referred to the beneficial use of the ship and her ing industry. It ought to be re subsidy policy pursued by Italy, membered, he said, that neither Japan, Spain, France, Poland and shipping nor shipbuilding enjoyed Great Britain. any form of State protection, either
tion on the open ocean.
No State. Interference.
The Case of Britain.
tensi
of the collision; and whether they derived during the period of the collision repairs, any
crew which ought to be taken into account, in the assessment of the damages and that the Registrar) had acted on a wrong principle in allowing interest upon capital
in the form of Customs or uny Great Britain, still the leading value and the cost of the crew for other, both industries having to maritime country of the world. the period necessary for execu- stund on their own feet and fight had, he alleged, given her shipping ting the collision damage repairs, their way against world competi-companies big. mail subridies, and in not taking into account the while, up to the end of 1926, ship-fact that these repairs were done huliders had beenranted during the time when the Cairo If Germany, was to continue to M.420,000,000 under the Trades was being refitted for the beneft have a shipbuilding industry of her Facilities Act, with the help of of the Crown. own, her hipbuilding yards would which they had built some 700,000 Their Lordshipe were unanimous) have stubbornly to fight against ali tons of new shipping. He contend-ly of opinion that the Registrar Was Ill-advised attempts at State: Inter that. In contrast to this polle, right in allowing damuges as for ference. Herr Blohm referred of State ald German alipowners, the total deprivation of the vessel scathing terms to the attempts : despite the loan of M.50,000,000 for the period of 20 days during the German Government to convert recently granted by the Govern- which she was undergoing collision the old naval dockyards at Kielfraent, had constructed their post-repairs while at the same time re- into a State undertaking for the war fleet independently of State fit repairs were going on, and that, construction of commercial vessels. aid, the compensation granted by the damages had been proporly The yards in question, the Deutschs the Government for surrendered calculated. Werke, were now trying to carry tannage having sufficed only to re-
on with the aid of generous finan-place one-third of what had been AMERICAN FAR EAST LINE cial support. from the State taken from them, The now Ger- Treasury.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO & If this system were man ships were of a much similar carried to its logical conclusion, type than those that had been givan
LOS ANGELES. sald the speaker, it would result up and Germany consequently in the German shipbuilding indus found it difficult to compete on the try losing its International im- North Atalantic with the first-clas portance. The upshot would chips of high speed possessed by that Germany would finally possess her rivals. The rigorous quota a number of State-owned ship restrictions placed on emigration building yards which would be by the United States and the loss run with the help of subsidies and of the German colonies haul also have merely local significance. adversely affected the development Herr Blohia concluded by exhort-of the new fleet.
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