TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929.
P.&O.-British India Apcar and
Eastern & Australian
Lines
(COMPANIES incorporated in ENGLAND). MAIL AND PASSENGER STEAMERS.
TAKING CARGO FOR
STRAITS, JAVA, BURMA, CEYLON, INDIA, PERSIAN GULF WEST INDIES, MAURITIUS, EAST AND SOUTH AFRICA, AUSTRALASIA, INCLUDING NEW ZEALAND AND QUEENSLAND PORTS, AND RED SEA, EGYPT, CONSTANTINOPLE, GREECE, LEVANTINE
PORTS, EUROPE, &c.
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL FORTNIGHTLY DIRECT ROYAL MAIL STEAMERS. (Under Contract with H.M. Government.)
8. S.
Tons
From 1 Hong Kong About
Pestination
Bombay, Marseilles & London.
SHIPBUILDING
THE CHINA MAIL,
DRITISH OUTPUT 220,000 TONS HIGHER THAN 1927
INTERESTING STATISTICS
That the pfrnt position in the British shipbuilding industry is, on the whole, fairly satisfactory may be gathered from a perusal of the "An- nual Summary of the Mercantile Ship- building of the World," which has just been issued by Lloyd's Register of Shipping, This summary gives of particulars of merchant vessels, 100 tons gross and upwards, launch- ed during 1928. The British output for 1928, as regards vessels launch ed, is higher by 220,000 tons than the figure for 1927. Moreover, the 1928 Agure is
the highest of any year ginee 1921. The present British total of 1,445,920 tons represents
53.8 per cent of the world's output for 1028. Cariously anough the corresponding figure for 1927 was also 55.6 per cent, that for 1928 being 38.2 per
cent, and that for 1925, 49.6 per cent. The returns for 1928 show that 97 vessels of between 5,000 and 10,000 lons, each, and 16 vessels of 10,000 tons and upwards, were launched in Britain. The largest of these steamora the turbine ships were "Duchess of Bedford" (20,123 tons), "Duchess of Richmond" and "Duchess of York" (each of 20,022 tons), the turbo-electric. vestel "Viceroy Df India" (19,000 tons), and the motor- ship "Rangitika" (18,000 tons). Ex-
of less cluding vessels
than 1,000 51 ships, making together 300,3-18 tons, and destined for the carriage of oil in bulk,
were launch-
tons,
ed during the year under review. It may be pointed out that the tonnage of steamers fitted for burning oil fuel launched during 1928 amounts to over 310,000 tons, and that the tonnage of ail-tank ships represents 21 per cent. of the total tourage of the steamers and motorships launched during the year.
It is interesting to find that the average tonnage of steamers and Apr. Bombay London; Huit, Antwerp, motorships launched during 1929 is
Marseilles & London.
NALDERA
16,028
Apr. 13th
Noon
*MIRZAPORE
0,715 16th
Apr.
KARMALA
*ALIPOKE
MANTUA
*NAGPORE
9,128 20th Apr. 6,273 24th 10,046 27th
5,282 4th May
Straits, Colombo & Rombay. Marseilles & London.
Apr.
Straits, Columbo & Bombay.
F
*KIDDERPORE
KALYAN
MOREA
5,334 8th 9,144 11th May 10,05% 25th May
May
Straits & Bombay.
•LAHORE
$5,252 1st June
⚫ Cargo only.
Rotterdam & Hamburg.
Marseilles, London & Hull. Bombay, Marseilles & London. Marseilles, London, Antwerp, Rotter-
dane & Hamburg.
Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Constantinople, Pireaus Smyrna and other Lovant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.
BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.
7,754 | 17th Apr. 10008122nd Apr. 7,936 6th May 6,949 9th 3,013 21st
SANTHIA
TILAWA
TAKLIWA
TAKADA
TALAMBA
10,000 | 20th
10,000 27th
7,754 4th
TALMA
TILAWA SANTHA TAKLIWA
May
May May June July 3,936 10th July
Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.. Singapore, Penang & Calentia. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta, Singapore, Penang & Calcutta. Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.
B.I. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st and 2nd class passengers. All steamers are fitted with wireless and carry a qualified surgeon.
EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South).
ARAFURA
TANDA
STALBANS ARAFURA
TANDA
+
Rth 6,000!
May 0,950 | 31st May 4,500❘ 5th July 6,000
2nd Aug. 6,956 20th
Aug.
Manila, Sandakan, Thursday Island, Townsville, Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.
Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Japan and Hong Kong to Australia.
The E. & A. 3.S. Ca., Ltd., steamers will 'po call at Shanghai, Iloilo, Cebu, Kolambugan, Tawao, Timor, Darwin, or her ports en route as in- ducement offers.
Frequent connections from Australia with the following:---
The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via New
Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.
The P&O. Royal steamers to London via Suez Canal.
The P.&O. Branch Service of steamers to London via the Cape.
The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panums Canal.
SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.
7,935 10th Apr. | Amoy, Moji, Kobė, Thama & Osaka.
6 a.m.
9.144 13th Apr.
5,318 15th
10,946 16th
Apr.
Shanghaj, Meji, Kobe & Yokohama.
Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama.
Noji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama, S'hai, Moj, Kobe & Y'hams.
TAKLIWA
KALYAN
*JEYPORE TAKADA
6 a.m.
Apr.
6,949 16th
Apr.
Amoy, Mot, Kobe & Osaka.
6 am.
ARAFURA MOREA TɅLAMBA
| 10,053
26tu
Apr.
8,018
28th
TALMA
10,000
Apr. 1st May
TANDA
*PERIM
DELTA
7,648 9th May 8,007
*ROSSINGTON COURT
RAJPUTANA 16,568 24th May TILAWA
10,006 4th June ST. ALBANS 4,500 4th
June * Cargo only.
6,968 7th Mey
10th May 14th
22nd
May
MAT
22nd May
Amoy, S'hal, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Amoy, Meji, Kobe, Y'hamg & Özaka. Moji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Shanghai, Moji, Kobe & Yokohama. Muji, Kobe & Osaka.
S'hai, Moji, Kobe & Y'hama) Moli, Kobe Osaka. Shanghat, Koba & Yokohama. Amoy, Shai, Moji, Kobe & Osaka. Hoji, Kobe, Osaka & Yokohama,
All dates are approximate and subject to alteration without notice. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.
Passengers for Rangoon must defray their own Hote! expenses at Bingapore while awaiting the on-carrying stormer,
All Cabina are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge. Stearners on London and Australian Lines are fitted with Laundries.
9,548 tons. If, however, the vessels of less than 500 tons be excluded, the average is increased to 4,850 tons, as against 4,109 in 1927, 4,486 in 1924, 4,489. in 1925, and 5,777 in 1024.
Turbine Progress
The marine steam turbine has made further progress during 1928, The vessels faunched which will employ this method of propulsion number 15,
and total 188,094 tons. It should be noted that the four largest vasgels launched in Britain
during the year will be fitted with steam tur- bines. Moreover, the figures just quoted include the "Viceroy of India, in which the turbines operate in con- junction with electric motors, and two- vessels of 777 tons, which employ a combinatione of steam turbines and reciprocating engines. The tonnage of motorships is steadily increasing in comparison with the total output. During 1919, the shipping launched fitted with internal combustion engines for propulsion purposes aggregated 22,930 tons, and this figure had risen to 201,913 tons during 1926 and to 555,779 tons during 1927. During the year under review, 76 motorship,
427,918 totalling kaunched, which tonnage represents 42.25 per cent. of the steam tonnage launched; the corresponding percent- age for 1927 was 41.1.
gross
toms,
were
$80,000 PROFIT
LITIGATION OVER GLEN LINE STEAMER
GOVERNMENT'S "WINDFALL"
..
London-Litigation was opened re- cently in the King's Bench Division, before Mr. Justice Rowlatt in a mat- ter affecting compensation ns between the Crown and the Glen Line, Ltd, and the Liverpool and London War Risks Association, the subject being a vessel belonging to the Glen Line which was interned during the war.
Tho -vessel concerned was the
war,
"Glenear," and her tonnage, the Solicitor-General recalled, was 4,828 gross, and she was in Hamburg ni the outbreak of
She way seiz ed by the German Governmer, and was not heard of again unti! hand- ed back under the Armstice Treaty, the German ship-The Crown reinsured from the res- The printed by the fact that pondent association up to 88 ner cent. yards the total tonnage launched for 1928,
of the total insured value of £60,000, namely, 376,416, shows an increase of
The Glen Line abandoned the vessel, 86,794 tons over the 1927 figure.
and were paid £60,000 and interest, The principal vessels involved are the
80 per cent. of which was paid by 46,000-ton turbine steamers "Bremen
the Crown. and "Europa," incidentally the larg ext ship launched in the world dur- ing 1928. the 20,293-ton motorship
the "Kungaholra" and
15,500-ton motorship "St. Louis."
Was
Remarkable Changos Some remarkable changes have taken place in the world tonnage of various types of ships during the past fourteen years. For instance, pil-tank ships, which totalled 1,479,000 tons in 1914, now aggregate 6,544,000 Loma. Again, the combined tonnage of motor-
which ships,
only 234,000 in 1914, bas now reached 5,432,000 tons. Fur- thermore, in 1914 the Lommage of the steamers fitted for burning oil fuel Was 1,310,000, the corresponding for 1928 being upwards of 19 In concluding an account of the ship- building activities of the various mari- time countries it vill, no doubt, prova of interest to compare the total ton- nage of the merchant shipping of the world, as it existed in 1914, with the latest available
lable figures, If, in view of their comparatively small import arce in international
sailing trade, ships and all-wood stearters be dis- regarded, we find that the gross ton- nage of seagoing steamers and motor. ships totalled 42,514,000 in June, 1914. The corresponding figure for June, 1923, was 61,594,000 tons, represent ing an increase of over 19,000,000 tons.
Deep-Water Chanties
ROW WELL YE MARINERS
The tide is for the shore, boys, And gently blows a fav'ring wind, We'll soon touch land once more.
boys.
And leave the billowy ways behind.
Row stecdy and strong,
The way it is long.
So bend to your cars.
And join in our song.
Row well. Row well.
How well ye Mariners.
A welcome voice is bailing. Give answer mates with a hearty
choer.
Our sturdy strokes prevsiling, Full soon the harbour will appear. Then speed her with skin,
The waters are still,
Our strokes are directed
With right gond will.
Row well, Row weß. Bow well ye Marines.
From "ENGLISH MELODIES from the 13th to the 18th Centuries"
PASSENGER LIST,
ARRIVALS.
Per a.s. "Change" from lian ports, on April 8:-
J. M. DENT & SONS.
!
And if you call for a song of the
sea,
We'll heave the capstan round, With a yen heave ho, for the wind
is free,
"What is now ranking in the minds of the other side," continued the Soli- citor General. is that unwisely the owners omitted to buy back the "Glenearn" after the war, because there was a dearth of shipping and the ship was sold for more than her insured value."
MY. Wiltred
Greene, K.C.-The
ht made £80,000 out of the
His Lordship. That is the best. thing I have heard for twelve months. I never thought the Government were capable of such a thing. (Laughter.)
"Froud of It"
The Solicitor-General-It is quite true the Crown has had the money, and we are proud of it. This is in the nature of a
The Glen windfall. Ling had been compensated by the German Government.
Further
upon
that point, e Soli-. citor-General said that the owners of the "Glenearn" were compensated by the German Government for the loss
of earnins of the ship to the amount of 1135,700, and the Crown now of
a declaration that that money clairced was received by the Glen Líne, as trustees for the Insurance Associa- tion, and that, as reinsurers, the Crown was entitled to 80 per cent, of
(Continued on Next Column.)
it.
(195)
Even Gilbert's cheap tailor, dis- guised as second trombone, could not fumble the beat and the. swing in a song of the sea-simply because sea music comes as na- turally to the mariner as lullabies. to a mother, and because its spirit is so infectious. It comes natural- ly because the sea chanty lightens the sailor's work and because from the very beginning of naviga- tion it has fostered teamwork and good feeling among seamen. But the sailor chanties passed away with the sailing ships. They were the seamen's working choruse3 whose utility declined when steam crowded the canvas-driven craft from the sea. There still remains
a great and largely ungathered treasure of sea musie which to-day
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..Sails on/or about 9th April.
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Town Office: 64, Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong, Tel. Central No. 459. Shipyard: Sham-Sui-Po, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Tel. Kowloon No. 9, Estimates furnished on application.
Hong Kong, April 1, 1924.
was what
The Insurance Association itself is remembered only by grizzled had not made any claim against the
Glen Line. The question sailors of clipper ship days. But
was to become of the money, failing memories, the tunes and Justice Rowlatt said: "It looks to me as these old salts are bothered by There was great laughter when Mr. the words they can still remember possible that my judgment may be must be recorded soon if they are to the German Government; it might that the money should be handed back to be preserved for the future. well be that my one view of the mat- This constitutes the real signifter." The laughter Was renewed, cance of the Sea Music Festival Oh, my Lord, de nnt let us contem- when the Solic:tor-General exclaimed: homeward held in Vancouver at the Vancou-plate any such dreadful possibility
ver Hotel from January 23 to 26. The hearing was adjourned.
Her anchor's a-trip and her helm's
a-lee,
Hurrah for the
bound!
Ho Cheung Shee, Master Ho Pao-¡ sum. Woug Wen-yu, Wn Tsz-sack, Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Fung, Y. W Lee, P. F. Curtis, R. T. Day, S. K. Austra-Wong, S. C. Ling, K. L. Wang, Mr. and Mrs. Chow Oi-fu, Mr. and Mrs. Chow-man-chow, Luible George, Mrs. R. J. Fairbairn, Miss E.
William. E. Larkin, Mrs. 5. Y. Hsu, Venn, Mr. H. Holmes, Miss E. Rar-
Mrs. S. Hau, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. dall, Dr. G. Faris. Mr. R. B. Stout, Mr. A. Marsh, Mrs. L. Brun, Lee Wai-tong, Mr. and Mrs. Goldenburg, Mrs. M. Malony, Mies
Kan Ying-po, Mrs, Kan, Miss Kan, M. L. Gordon, Mrs. E. Lester, Miss Ho Ying-ung, Master Peter Ho, L. O'Grady, Dr. C. A. Patrick, Miss Mr. and Mrs. Chan Chung-jai, Yau E. Hunter, Mrs. A. L. McDonald, Kum, C. C. Lee, Miss S. M. Fong, Mrs. M. Barker, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. M. S. Wong, C. T. Sen, Mr. and Humphreys, Mr. and Mrs. F. Mrs. T. S. Chen, Mrs. L. M. Hụng, Cornell, Miss V. Cornell, Mrs. H. D. Mr. G. M. Shen, Mrs. Ying Waḥ, 3. Walker, Miss E. M. Ackerman, Mrs. Mak, Nien Pai-chen, Nien Nao-
Parcels measuring not more than 2% fx ft x1 ft. will be received. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. F. J, Seage,chen, Elliott Hazzard, Kun Shuen-
at the Company's Office up to Noon on the day previons to smiling,
For further Information, Passages, Freight, Handbooks, etc., apply to:--
MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Agents.
P. & 0. Building, Connaught Rd. C., Hong Kong.
Miss E. T. Seago, Mr. J. F. Bowden, fan, YL. Tong, Leon Poy-kwel, Mr. and Mre. J, A. Cope-Christie,
Mr. and Mrs. Haul Ling-king, "Mr.
and Mrs. Lee Long-sam, K. Y. Chen,
Mrs. N. E, Barraclough, son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. G. J. P. Lau, H. C. Yip, Chan Shewi Smith and son, Miss N. Barritt, kui, Mar Yit-tuck, Mr. and Mrs. Miss A. Maple-Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Chu. Ting-hing, T. K. Ling, H. A.
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Liang, W. K. Yao, K. C. Lau, Miss Hung, J. Yavdynsky, Mr. and Mrs.
Hawley, Mr. E. Braby, Miss S. McMillan, Miss J. Atkinson, Mr. Russell-Fortune, Sen, Mr. Russell C. C. Lim, I. Chỏa, L Lock-hin, Fortune, inc., Miss A. McLean'] Mrs. J. A. Eccles, E. W. Miller, Dr. Miss M: Sharpe, Mrs. J. A. Paul, Stuart Polson, N. L Mak, Chow Mr. and Mrs. N. Glazerin, Messes V. Kung-mow, Mr. and Mrs. Li Hon and L. Glazerin, E. T. G. Jones. ching, Mrs. Al Ma, Wong Lock, Miss Per 4.8."President Cleveland" on Ah Samı, Ab Ng, "Miss Ab Shee, April 9-From San Francisco Miss Ah Doli, Miss Ah Nül, Mrs. Daniel H. Gray, Thedore Hubner, Chen Ai, Chung Lan, Yea Koo, Ho Frank L. Hess, William F. Carman; Yuk, Mrs. Ah Ya, Miss Ah Mel; from Honolulu-Dorothy P. Hein-L Hon, H. M. Wuang, Yang Chee, rieks, Mr and Mrs. Waldo Hein Ah Noo, Wang Hol, Miss Ho Chi ricks, Margaret L. Peterson; from ping, Miss Kun Show-to, Ah Chan, Yokohams-Mr. and Mrs. Carl B. Wong Bun. E Shank; from Kobe-Baudilo Allon Bun
from Shanghai S. C. Yin, Fung Earl Spencer has given St. Sing-po, Wong Dick-jum, Master Albans prints of two of his an- Wong Fock-kun, Mrs. Wong Dick cestors, former Mayors the jun, Master Wong Him-kun, Mrs, town,
The fashion of bolding dances of à special nature in the world's largest ner seems to be growing, for nows just to hand from the
State was in New York on her last voyage, the Rotary Club of New York, by germi sion of the White Star Line, held very successful ner and dance or
states that when the white
beard, at which over 900 guests we. present. For the last two years t Hampshire County Ball in aid of th Royal. Soetharapton and Hampshir..
Hospital has been held in the "Majestic at Southampton.
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