FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1927.
P. & 0.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
SHIP INSURANCE.
SIR N. HILL ON WAR TIME
· RISKS.
OFFICIAL VIEWS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
INDO-CHINA
STEAM NAVIGATION CO LTD,
Canton
SAILINGS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION. Destination
Steamer
FOOSHING
The butstanding impression au vin Swatow & S'hai HOPSANG created by the perusal of "War 1 tau via Swatow & Shai FOOSHING Insurance" is that Sir Norman Hill Shanghai has given of his best in his master-Shanghai
YUSANG
CHAKSANG
Sailing
.Sat., 10th July, at 6a.m. Sat., 13th July at 10 n.m. .Wed., 20th July. at 10 a.m. Thurs., 21st July, at 10a.m. .Fri,
ly contribution to the subject under Osaka via Amany, Shanghai, FOOKSANG .Sat., the heading which prefaces this Moji & Kole article. The book is one of the Tientsin
22nd July, at 10a.m.
23rd July, at 7a.m.
CHEONGSHING .Sat,
23rd July, at 5 pm.
San.. Wed.,
24th July, at 10a.m. 7th July, at 10a.m.
series dealing with the economic au vin Swatow & Shai KWAISANG and social History of the world war."ton via Swatow & Shaj ANGSANG
LAISANG Straits & Calcutin nud is issued under the auspices of
HINSANG Sandakan the Carnegie Endowment for Inter-aiphong
MINGSANG national Pence, the publishers being rise in Swator & S'hai YATSHING Humphrey Milford, Lonion, and, the aka vin Amoy, Shanghat, KUMSANG price of the volume 10s. Gd.
In addition to the section already mentioned, fire insurance during the
war, the effect of the struggle on British life assurance, national health insurance and friendly so- insur- GULF,cieties and unemployment
TAKING CARGO FOR STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN
WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA,
· AUSTRALASIA. INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
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S. S.
Толя
From Hongkung About
ALIPORE MACEDONIA VALYAN
NYANZA
KASHGAR
RAWALPINDI
DEVANHA
MOREA
KHYBER
MALWA
5,273 2132 July July 11.12028ed
9.144, 27th July 7,023 3rd Aug. 0,006 6th Aug. 16,619 20th Aug.
8,155 3rd Sept.
Destination
Straits & Bombay
Marseilles & London
Marseilles, London. Antwerp & Ilull
Straits & Bombay
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
Maravilles & London
Marseilles, London & Antwerp
Marseilles London
114 1st Oct.
Marseilles & London
Marseilles & London
| 10,963 | 17th Sept.
10,986 16th Det.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
TAKLIWA
TILAWA SANTIA
Juty Singapore, Penang & Calcutta 7,036 10th
2.30 p.m. 10,006 22nd July Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
7.754 12th Aug.
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South)
ARAFURA TANDA
ST. ALBANS
6,000 29th July | 6,956 2nd Sept. 14,500 30th Sept.
Regular monthly salings from Hongkong to Japan and Hongkong to Australia.
The E. & A. S.S. Co., Ltd., steamers will also call at Shanghai, Hollo. Cabu, Kolambugun, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or other ports en route as inducement offers.
ance during the war and after are also trented by authoritative pens. The shipping industry, however, ja mainly concerned with Sir Normant
Thurs., 28th July, at 3 p.m.
Sat.,
30th July, at 3p.m. .Sun., 31st July, at 8a.m.
Sun. .Tues.,
31st July. at 10a.m. 2nd Aug, at 7 a.m.
3rd Aug., at 10 a.m.
3loji. Yokohama & Kole Ttae via Swatow & Shai KWONGSANG.Wet, Straits & Calcutta
HUSANG
Sat.. 6th Aug., ut p.m. For Freight and Passage apply to:- JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Telephone Centrul 215...
of
General Managers.
CONSIGNEES.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS, LIMITED.
From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO, ANTWERP LONDON, STRAITS & PHILIPPINES.
Hill's able essay, which, in our unknown expense which might be opinion, will always possess histor-Incurred and the possibilities ical importance to those interested fraud, another and very serious
of} in the story of how reasonable cover rollection upon the bona fides
during was provided
the long those engaged in shipping.
Sir Norman remarks trenchantly period when floating properties were ceaselessly hunted down and that it was because the losses could scheme destroyed wherever possible by a re- not be estimated that the
"If the Stats, lentless enemy. One point which was undesirable. emerges and which appeals to us with ail its resources, shrank from very strongly is that private enter the unknown, how could it expect prise manifested greater prevision the shipowner, the merchant, the HE Steamship in the matter of providing in- banker and the underwriter to re-1 demnity against marine war risk gard the war risks as a mere matter of business at other than fumine than did the State.
Shipowners had long realized that prices." a serious outbreak of hostilities might in certain circumstances
drive every
Bilter Experience.
are
5
DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINE
AND
AMERICAN MAIL LINE
JOINT TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICE
A Regular Weekly Sailing
TO SAN FRANCISCO OR SEATTLE.
THE " PRESIDENT LINERS
TO SAN FRANCISCO VIA HONOLULU,
SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
"THE SUNSHINE BELT”
PRESIDENT LINCOLN...Monday, July 18th 12 Midnight
PRESIDENT MADISON
.Tuesday,
Aug. 2nd.
PRESIDENT JACKSON
Tuesday,
Aug. 16th.
PRESIDENT MCKINLEY
.Tuesday,
Aug. 30th,
PRESIDENT LINCOLN
.Tuesday,
Sept. 13th:
Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays.
Ang.
HONG KONG TO EUROPE ·
SPECIAL LOW RATES.
Via San Francisco or Seattle.
£120 £112
DIRECT CONNECTIONS WITH ALL ATLANTIC LINES
Choice of railway lines across United States and Canada, with liberal stop-over privileges for Sightseelog. Ask for information. Following are suggested. itiner- • Dries:-
Hongkong
Via
Connecting with Breamship
Frota N. York
Arriving at
24
July 19 San Francisco
·July
Laviathan
Aug. 20
P'math-Chrg
out. No claims will be admitted after advanced.
Aug.
10
Aug. Aug. 24
Seattle 28an Francisco
Sentile 10 Ban Francisco
Beattle Aug. 30 San Francisco
Beattia
Aquitania Mijetlo
Olymplo Berengaris Homeda
Ang. 24
Sept. 3
Mauretania Sept. 6
Sept. 17
Bejt. 21
Oct. 1
Sept. 13 San Francisco Sept. 21 Senzile
Aquitania Majestic
Och 5
Oct 16
Bojst. 17 San Francisco
Loviathan Olymple
tot. 22
Dat. 29
Oct.
5
Seattle
Berengaria
Nov. 2
Chrg 'bmptn Oct. brg-S'umpin Oct. Obrg-'bmpin Nor. big-hmpin Nov.
28
4 H
"BENVRACKIE" CONSIGNEES 01' Cargo hereby informed that all Goods are being landed at their risk into the Shipowners had been taught by hazardous and/or extra hazardous British ship to harbour bitter experience that although they Godowns of the Hongkong and Kow- and so cut off the flow of imports might have been paying war risk loon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., It premiums voyage after voyage, the whence and/or frem the wharves indispensable to the nation.
moment the WDS any serious į delivery may be obtained. was recognised also that shipowners of themselves could not ensure our ground for anticipating an merchant fleets keeping the seas, break of war the rates the magnitude of such a task being and the market contructed. It was the Goods have left the Godowns, one which obviously came within to remedy this that they generally and all goods remaining undeliver- the province of Government, and organised themselves on the line ed after the 16th inst. will be sub- All claims against the steamer yet it was not until the midnight of that had been adopted by the North ject to rent, Sunday preceding the fatal Wed- of England Protecting and nesday when war was declared that demnity Association in 1899. and must be presented to the Under- the official scheme was promulgat-associations were formed in 1912, signed on or before the 30th inst.,
in both London and Liverpool, for they will not be recognized. which, together with the North of All broken, chafed and damaged England Association, there was included by 1914 nearly three- Goods are to be left in the Godovas, quarters of the British steamship where they will be examined on the
10th inst., at 10 a.m. tonnage employed in our overseas trade.
ed.
In-
The Admiralty's Views. The Admiralty had long held de- cided views concerning the ques- tion, realising that in the event of a struggle with a big maritime Power euncentration of naval force was These associations insured ships essential, and hence it would be on the mutual principle against war impossible to disperse its units to perils, both when two foreign the extent of affording protection nations were concerned or when to all our wide-llung trading Great Britain was one of the bel- vessels. The general public, too, ligerents. Necessarily, had a glimmering of the problems scheme was limited in regard to the which might have to be faced, and scope of its operations by financial the subject had been widely dis- restrictions. Thus, when Great cussed for many years.
such
a
No Fire Insurance has been effected."
Bills of Lading will be counter- signed by
GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD. Agents. Hong Kong, 9th July, 1327.
A Geneva message reads:- By seven votes to five the Mari- time Commission of the Inter- national Labour Bureau to-day decided to recommend that the Maritime Labour Conference of next year should discuss the in- troduction of an eight-hours' The French shipowners' day: delegate agreed to support the point of view of the seamen's re- presentatives, but the British delegate for the shipowners voted against the proposal.
Britain was at war the cover was The various suggestions which contined to veseels actually at sea were put forward we may sum- or in an enemy' port when hostill mariae as falling, under two divities were declared, and only lasted sions, according as they advocated until such times as they reached a Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, national indemnity or national in British or neutral port. Ships not Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney, & aurance against maritime war risks. at sea and in a safe port were only In the former case only, actual held insured while they remained Melbourne,
losses would have to be made good, there. while it was evident that under an Necessity of State Co-operation.
The London and Liverpool Asso-| insurance scheme the premiums
re charged might exceed those losses. elatiens, formed in 1921, were
Upon this phase of the evolution sponsible for the next step, for they of the plan which was ultimately urged the vital necessity of State adopted Sir Norman Hill is very co-operation if shipping was to be illuminating. He points out that encouraged to pursue its activities The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New though proposals were discussed in war-time, with the result that a and canvassed by underwriters, sub-committee of the Committee of Zealand. Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
merchants and bankers-und some Imperial Defence was appointed in Port of Belfast statistics show times even by politicians-it was May, 1913, and their report was that 257 vessels arrived only the shipowners' associations issued in the following April. Even Belfast between January 11 that worked, year after year, to then there was delay, but the ship and 15 as follows:-Coastwise and bring them into a practicable form, owners' associations stuck to their and cross-channel, 228; foreign,
"these being the only trading asso- guns, and on Aug. 14 were able to 22; non-trading, 7. ciations in this country who consia-issue the historic, circular an- tently devote their attention to the nouncing that the intention of the tonnage of vessels which arrived conditions under which our aver scheme and the object of the Gov- from January 1 to 15 was:- sens trade is carried,"
ernment in reinsuring war risk to Coastwise and cross-channel, the extent of 80 per cent, was to 77,544, a decrease of 10,139 com- maintain the oversena trade of the
pared with the corresponding
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-
The P. & O. Royal Mail steamers to London vin Suez Canal.
The P. & O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape,
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton
London via Panama Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN
SANTHIA
7,764 18th July RAWALPINDI 16,619 22nd July
Aug.
DEVANHA
9,155
6th Aug.
TANDA
0,950
9th
MOREA
10,953
10th Aug.
KHYBER
D114
2nd Sept.
ST. ALBANS
4,500
6th Sept.
NYANZA
7,023
15th Sept.
Maji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Kate & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Moji. Kobe. Oanka & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama Shanghai, Maji & Kaho
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
* Fassengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hotel expenses at Singapore while awaiting the on-carrying steamer,
All Cabins are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Steamers on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries. Parcels measuring nat more than 2% ft. x 2 ft. x 1 ft. will be received
at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previous to sailing,
For further information, Passage Freights, Handbooks, etc, apply to:-
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Agents.
P. & O. Building, Connaught Rd. C., HONGKONG.
"Shipowners Schemes."
at
The total
Bout. 7
Aug. 26 Chrg-bopin Aug. 30 Cbrg-'hmpin Sept.
mth-brg Bejt. 12 Obrg-8'ampen Берг, 23 Obig-8'hmin Sept. 27 Ubg-8'hmptn Oct. Cbrg-Shapin
7
11 Och
21
TO SEATTLE AND VICTORIA VIA SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA.
"THE FAST SHORT ROUTE"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND......Wednesday, July 27th
PRESIDENT PIERCE PRESIDENT TAFT PRESIDENT JEFFERSON PRESIDENT GRANT
Wednesday, Aug. 10th,
Wednesday, Aug. 24th Wednesday, Sept. 7th.
Wednesday, Sept. 21st.
Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Wednesday.
TO EUROPE AND NEW YORK. VIA MANILA, STRAITS, COLOMBO, SUEZ— PORT SAID ALEXANDRIA-NAPLES
-GENOA-MARSEILLES,
Thence to BOSTON and NEW YORK. PRESIDENT HAYES......Tuesday, July 19th 6.00 a.m. PRESIDENT POLK PRESIDENT ADAMS PRESIDENT GARFIELD PRESIDENT HARRION
Tuesday, Aug. 2nd 8.00 am. Tuesday, Aug. 16th 8.00 am .Tuesday, Aug. 30th 8.00 am. Tuesday, Sept, 13th 6.00 a.m‹
Thereafter Fortnightly Sailings on Tuesdays.
TO MANILA.
PRESIDENT HAYES .... PRESIDENT CLEVELAND PRESIDENT MADISON PRESIDENT POLK ... PRESIDENT PIERCE
.July 19th .July 19th July 25th .Aug. 2nd ..Aug. 2nd
For Passenger and Freight Rates apply to
6.00 a.m.
6.00 p.m.
6.00 p.m.
8.00 a.m. 6.00 p.m.
The merchant and manufacturer country, Members were advised to period last year; foreign 33,232, THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO
concern themselves with the cost of act prudently as common partners. an increase of 10,218; non- freight and insurance, while the to minimise calls, but to recognise
underwriter takes the risk, provid- the duty of keeping their, ships go- trading 7,209, an increase of ed the aggregate premiums willing wherever it was reasonably pos- 7,097; total 118,085, a net in- cover the losses and, of course. sible. How splendidly the scheme crease of 7,171. Heave a margin. The result was worked and how premiums dropped that the proposals came to be re- until the "aink at sight" policy of garded as merely shipowners the enemy was developed is well schemes and as such were looked told by Sir Norman. At the same upon as suspect. A steri onward time, however, it is terrible to think was made in 1903, when a Royal what might have happened to the Commission on Supply of Food and country had it not been for the Raw Material in Time of War was wise foresight of the chipowners appointed. The investigation was and the excellence of their orgun- very thorough and the report in isation."Syren." telligently visualized the economic conditions which obtained during the war.
HARBOUR OFFENCES.
In 1907 a Treasury Committee was appointed, when the proposals for insurance and indemnity were Fines amounting to $45 were again examined, but they were "un- able to recommend the adoption of collected in the Marine Court this any form of National Guarantee morning when six bout masters against the war risks of shipping were charged on Water Police sum- monses with infringing harbour re- and maritime trade except that which is provided by the mainten-gulations. Three pleaded guilty to ance of a powerful Navy. Some having no lights and three to lying of the evidence produced before inshore less than 100 yards from this Committee is very interesting the low water mark between the The because It shows, to our thinking, hours of 9 pm and 5 a.m.
BOSTON, NEW YORK & BALTIMORE. they viewpoint which many former were fined $10 each and the
JOINT SERVICE OF. THE
"BLUE FUNNEL LINE.
(OCEAN S.S. CO., LTD. & CHINA MUTUAL S.N, CO., LTD.,
AND
people have regarding the national latter $6 each. nature of the work carried out by
the British. shipping industry. For
example, it was argued that the Some of the most modern steel system was useless because the works and rolling mills in the coun- payinent by the State of the value try have made an unustentatious. of the ship or cargo lost would do start during the week in North Lin- nothing towards maintaining our coinshire. The rolling of plates ip the effrontery to argue that to give business with the shipbuilding shipowners the certainty of being yards of the Humber, and also for compensated if their ships were trade with boiler and tank makers captured must stimulate them in of the West Riding. the pursuit of captors for the ship
AMERICAN & MANCHURIAN LINE Supplies; while another witness had the district will afford scope for
(ELLERMAN & BUCKNALL S.S. CO., LTD.)
SAILINGS FROM HONG KONG.
S.S. "CITY OF CHESTER" Via Suez Canal
S.S. "HELENUS"
Via Suoz Canal · S.S. "CITY OF BEDFORD" Vla Suez Canal 9.5. "MENTOR"
Via Suez Canal
S.S. "CITY OF NORWICH" Via Suez Canal
14th July.
31st July.
14th Aug.
28th Aug.
11th Sept.
and of the consequent indemnity.
"The Unknown. Expense."
With regard to the contention that the system was unnecessary, it was maintained that the under-
Steamers proceed via Suez Canal or Panama Canal at Gwners' Option. writing market had in the past been
Subject to change without notice.
For Freight and particulars apply. to:----
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, or THE BANK LINE, LTD, Hong Kong. Hong Kong & Canton: JARDINE, MATHESON & CO. LTD.. Canton.
willing to assume war risks on rea- sonable terms, and they might be relied upon to do so in case of a future emergency. The Treasury Committee, too, were afraid of the
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