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Wednesday, 6th February Sunday, 3rd February

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Sunday, 20th

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MERCHANT NAVY

THE CHINA MAIL,

SHIPPING

MEMORIAL UNVEILED BY THE

QUEEN

IMPRESSIVE SERVICE

London "To the glory of God

and in honour' of those brava men, I unveil this memorial on

behalf of those for whom they

dled."

With these words the Queen in mail week unvelled the memorial erected on Tower Hill in honour of these, members of the chant Navy and Fishing Fleets who lost their lives during the war, and whose only grave is the sea. Her brief speech, delivered in low tones, nevertheless reached the great crowd by means of loud speakers, and for the first time her voice was heard on the wire

less.

The scene during the unveiling ceremony was one of touching simplicity. The

stood crowds bareheaded in the drizzling rain. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Mary, mounted the dals dressed in a brown coat and hat, to match with a large bunch of! carnations pinned to the lapel of i her coat.

A prayer for the King was offered up by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Minister in at- tendance was Sir Philip Cunliffe- Llater, President of the Board of Trade.

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SECTION.

SHIPPING BOARD

G.$16,000,000 OFFERED FOR TWO AMERICAN LINES

BID FOR LEVIATHAN

Washington, Yesterday.. Seven tenders were opened by Their names are engraved alpha- the Shipping Board for six ships betically on bronze panels under comprising the United States Line their respective ships, disregard and five comprising the American Ing rank or rating, honoured Merchant Line. The P. W. Chap- equally in their deaths for duty man and Company, bid $8,782,000 nobly done, with the sole excep- for the Leviathan" and the same tion that the name of the master, Company offered $16,000,000 for both lines.-Reuter's American Ser- if it appears, is placed first.

vice.

The following details of the losses sustained by well-known shipping companies are represen

tative.

SHIPBUILDING

BRITAIN'S 471⁄2 PER CENT OF

WORLD'S OUTPUT

Sirteen vessels of the Cunard Line are inscribed on the memorial, with a total number of lives lost of 500-the worst disas

London, Jan. 15. ter being the sinking of the "Lusi- tania," which involved the loss of

Lloyds Register reports that 394 members of her crew. The shipping under construction at Ellerman Lines are represented the end of December in the Bri- by 48 ships and 415 men, the tish Isles showed an increase of Union-Castle Line by nine ships 153,000 tons, compared with and 320 men, Furness Withy com- September, although the present pantes by 44 ships and over 200 total of 1,242,000 tons is 998,000 men, the P. and O. ten ships and tons less than at the end of 1927. The average tonnage construct- nearly a hundred men, and so on.j Out of the 1,488 vessels named on led for the six years 1928-1928 the memorial 191 were registered only amounted to 1,220,000 tons, at the port of Liverpool; whilst compared with an average of of the names of "missing" men 2,000,000 tons in 1913. commemorated 1,919 were mem- bers of crown of Liverpool ships.

LIFEBOAT CREW

PERISH WHILE GOING TO

STEAMER'S RESCUE-

Rotterdam, Yesterday. While going to the assistance of the stranded Latvian atcamer

"Falka" the Dutch lifeboat "Hook of eight were lost.-Reuter. of Holland," capsized and the crow

"THOMAS HARDY"

BRITISH TRAWLER SAFE AT TROMSOE

"We Will Not Forget" The service opened with the singing of the hymn, "O God, our help in ages past," and then tho Archbishop of Canterbury read a prayer for the great company of our brothers who laid down their lives for their country, and whose bodies have gone down to the sea and

bürled in the great waters."

Her Majesty then performed the

London, Yesterday. actual unveiling of the memorial,

News has been received that the which was dedicated by the Arch-trawler "Thomas Hardy" and her bishop of Canterbury. The hymns, crew, which was yesterday reported "For all the saints who from their from Tromsoe to be lost, are safe labours rest" and "Eternal at the Norwegian port. Reuter. Father, strong to save," followed. There was a minute's silence, and | then came the notes of "Reveille," telling of victory and a new life. When the memorial had been un- veiled the signal, "We will not forget," was hoisted on the flag- staff as a sign to the seafarers as they entered London's docks,

The Queen placed a wreath on the memorial, and the great crowd joined in singing the National Anthem. Among those at the ceremony was a party of 24 life boatmen from the stations at Southend, Margate, Eastbourne, Newhaven, and Worth-at

Ramagale,

ing.

Twenty wireless operators re-

+

MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS. ''

The Ben Life s.8. "Benvrackie" from Middlesbro', London, Straits and Philippines, is due to arrive here to-day.

The Ben Line es... "Benalder” from Leith, Dunkirk, Antwerp, London and Strafts left Singapore for this port on Saturday, and is due to arrive here to-day,

The P. & O. 3.8. "Kalyan" left 4 p.m., and is due here on Friday Shanghai for this port on Tuesday

at about 6 a

Singapore for this port on Monday at 6 am. with the outward Eng Iish Malls, and is dus here on Friday at about 6 p.m..

The P. & O. s.s. "Kashgar" left

presented the 6,000 of their col- leagues who served during the war. One of these, Mr. Robert Leith, who was senior operator on the "Lusitania" when she was tor- The C.P.S. R.M.S. "Empress of pedoed on May 7, 1915, was pre-Asia," Capt. A. J. Hailey, R.N.R., sented to the Queen.

will leave here for Victoria and Vancouver, B.C... via Shanghai, The memorial, which has, been | Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama at erected by all the Governments of noon on January 23.

The, Memorial

the Empire through the Imperial The M.V. "Nippon" (Swedish War. Graves Commission, com-East Asiatic Co., Ltd.), left Dun- memorates the names of 12,000 kirk on Dec. 24, and is due here officers, and men of the Merchant on or about Jan. 81. Navy and Flahing Fleets who lost their lives at sea through enemy action and "have no other grave than the sea."

The monument is situated in Trinity-square, Tower Hill, and is a counterpart to those memorials erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth to the "missing" of the Royal Navy, and to the Menin Gate and other memorials rafsed

on the battle- felds.

Projected arrivals it and depar- tures from Hong Kong of steam- ers under the management of the Bank Line, Ltd, are as follows:-

Arrivals at Hong Kong 8.9. "City of Pekin," from Europe, January 21,

S.S. "Polérid" from New York, Feb. 1

8.8. "City of Khartoum," from Europe, Feb. 24,

8.S. "City of Guildford,” – from New York, March, 2

SS. "Rosario," from New York, March 2, 2

Bailings From Hong Kong 38. "City of Pekin," Shanghai and Japan ports; Jan. 26.

The material of the memorial is Portland stone, and the names of the missing," arranged under their ships, are inscribed on bronze panels which encase the piers. In form the memorial is a vaulted

S.S. "Poleric," Saigon, Feb. 8. corridor, 64 ft. long, with three SS. "City of Madras," London, bays 17 ft. wide, and approached Rotterdam and Hamburg, Feb. 9. from each end by archways 8 ft. S.S. "Myrtlebank," Boston, New wide. Between the piers are York and Baltimore, Feb. 15. K- columne in pairs carrying the S.S. "City of Khartouin, Shang- Doric entablature that surrounds hal and Japan ports, Feb. 25, the monument, Each end is pedí-| SS. "City of: Guildford," Shang- mented, and the centre is empha-hal, March 8

About 115,000 tons of the new! tonnage now in hand in Britain is intended for the British Domin- ions.

The tonnage being constructed abroad is 1,375,000 tons, this |being 56,000 tons lower than in September, but it exceeds by 132.000 tons the tonnage being built in the British Isles,

Four countries abroad have more than a hundred vessels under construction, these being Germany (882), Holland (182), France (161) and Japan (118).

The total tonnage under con- struction throughout the world is 2,618,000 tons, of which 47% per cent. is being built in the British Isles, compared with a pre-war percentage of 57.

"

A reduction is again shown in the tanker tonnage under con- struction, compared with 1927.

The tonnage of motor ships being constructed in the British Isles is still less than the tonnage of steamers.

ships under construction exceed The world figures for motor

by 184,000 tona the aimilar total for steam tonnage.-Reuter.

President of Ecuador

Dr. Ledro Ayora, President of Ecuador.

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sised by a rectangular feature 38 Roseric," Shanghal and finished with a circular treatment, Japan, March 8:

on the faces of which the dedica- tion is inscribed as follows:-"To the glory of God and to the honour of twelve thousand of the Mer- chant Navy and Fishing Fleets, who have nó grave but the 50s.” The architect⠀⠀⠀⠀ Is Sir Edwin' Lutyena,

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