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HOW THE ATLANTIC RECORD MAY RETURN,

the

It is because speed pays thut

Cunard Company are deter mined to go ahead with the build- ing of two new liners-possibly the fastest and largest in the world for the Atlantic service, writes an Evening News correspondent in final wack..

The company believes that It will save money by building the Lwo colossally expensive ships, if those two vessels can do the work that now needs three-Berengaria, Aquitania, and Mauretania.

Shipping

Intelligence.

CAPTAIN COOK'S SEA FRENCH MINE-LAYER

CHEST.

Camera Reveals Works by Artist Companions

MINIATURES ON LEATHER.

J

The camera, which by means of panchromatic photography, has re- vealed details unnoticed by the

human eye,

may be the means of

bringing a fortune to Mr. D. W. Sumner, who keeps a small sweet- shop in Clifton Road, Aston, Birmingham,

be

Mr. Sumner came

ONE OF THE WORLD'S MOST FORMIDABLE SHIPS.

It is reported that the Arut French move at the end of the holi- day agreement with Italy will be the laying down of an entirely now type of warship at St. Nazaire, a placement of 7,800 tons and s mine-laying cruiser with a dis- speed of 34 knots, with an arma-

ment at least aufficient for her to

defend herself against anything

that is likely to attack her.

She will be the most formidable vessel of her type in the world, a great advance on any mine-laying into posses-cruiser now in commission.

Each of these three ships does the double journey, from South-slon, about six months ago, of an umpton to New York and back, in old leather-bound chest reputed to the sea chest which Captain three weeks. It is intended that the new ships should do it in two James Cook took with him on his weeks, so that the weekly service momentous voyages a century and a half ago, when ho circumavigated can be maintained with only two

the globe. vessels.

High Speeds. The cost of them will be-im- They will have to be probably the largest ships in the

mense.

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A. VARYING world, not merely. In order to carry

FROM 183 TO £120 ON SALE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

CHICHIBU MARU TAIYO MARU

Thursday, Sunday,

11th December. 21st December.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & "Japan ̈Ports.~~-~~-

3rd December. HIKAWA MARU

...... Wednesday, LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM við

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez. HAKOZAKI MARU

TERUKUNI MARU

ATSUTA MARU

Saturday, 29th Nov, at 7 n.m.

18th December. Saturday,

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

Tuesday,

BOMBAY vin Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

CALCUTTA MARU

KAGA MARU

23rd December.

Thursday, 27th November, Thursday, 11th December. SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Inpan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

Mexico & Panama, RAKUYO MARU

Monday,

SOUTH AMERICA (East Const) via Singapore, Cape Town & Ports,

KAMAKURA MARU

NEW YORK, BOSTON via Parama

LIVERPOOL vis Port Said, Stamboul (Constantinople), Genoa,

22nd December.

Wednesday,

17th December.

ASUKA MARU

† TAKAOKA MARU

Tuesday, Thursday,

25th November.

11th December.

+ DAKAR MARU

Friday,

12th December.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

+ PENANG MARU

+ HAKODATE MARU.

Saturday. Monday,

th November. 8th December.

+ DURBAN MARU (Calls Keelung). Wednesday, TANGO MARU (Calla Moji)

Sunday,

KAMO MARU

KATORI MARU

Tuesday, Sunday.

24th November. 30th November. 2nd December. 14th December.

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Sunday, 14th December..

.... Wednesday, 24th December, 1930. RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-Via Balgon, Sings-

pore, Colombo, Durban & Cape Town,

210 DE JANEIRO MARU

MONTEVIDEO MARU

BOMBAY Via Singapore & Colombo.

Friday, 28th November.

Tuesday, 30th December.

SUMATRA MARU (Calls at Karachi) Thursday, 4th December. DURBAN, LOURENCO MARQUES, BEIRA, DAR-ES-SALAAM, ZAN.

ZIBAR & MOMBASA—YL

Singapore & Colombo,

Saturday, 8th December.

Tuesday, 2nd December.

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Thursday, 18th December.

CALCUTTA—Via Singapore, Penang & Rangoon.

CANADA MARU

TACOMA MARU

MADRAS MARU

VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER,

ARABIA MARU (from Shanghai).. Monday, 15th December. MELBOURNE.-Via Manila,, Brisbane & Sydney.

Saturday, 6th December.

* SYDNEY, MARŲ......

(Calls at Wellington & Auckland.) HAIPHONG Via Hollow & Pakbol.

NEW YORK-Via Japas Porta & Panama.

HOKUROKU MARU

Saturday, 8th December.

a very big paying load of passen- gers, but in order to be able to maintain high speeds against heavy head seas, which are always likely to be encountered on the westward trip.

They must have prodigiously powerful engines. Mauretania is 241⁄2-knot ship, which has done as much BS 27 knots. Bremen, which captured the Atlantic re- cord for Germany, and her sister ship Europa have touched very nearly 28 knots. But these giants will have to be 30-knot ves- sels, and will probably have an actual absolute maximum speel as high as 32 knots.

penses.

new

To the first cost of them must be added insurance and running ex- Even the present great Cunarders burn 5,000 tons of oil fuel on a single, 3,000-mile cross- Ing.

the present Cunarders, which go

The chest, which was presented Captain Joseph Bilcliffe, of to

Uffelby, Lincolnshire, by Captain Cook's widow, was traced as having been passed to the late Mr. W. H. Elliot then to a Mr. William Alcock, through Mr. John Stafford, of Market Rasen, and again to Mr. Henry Osborne, and finally to Clayfortb, of Birmingham.

£3,000 Offer.

The idea of mine-laying cruisers was started on a small scale by the end of the 19th century, when they built the Amur and Yenesei, ships which attracted great attention from the naval experts of the time, but which came under a cloud when the Yenesel, by carelessness,

set on one of her own mine-felds

off Port Arthur, and was lost with very heavy casualties.

Two Slow Ships, Germany revived the idea by building the Nautilus and Albatross in 1906 and 1907, very Mrs.ingenious designs in their way, but suffering from having a

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1930.

STEAMSHIP

LINES

EMPRESS OF JAPAN

Will sail at

6 A.M.

on

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 27th

for

VICTORIA & VANCOUVER

Via

SHANGHAI & JAPAN PORTS Passengers will embark

previous evening.

Passenger Dept.:

Tol. 20762 Cables; "Gacanpac." Freight and Express: Tel. 20042 Cables: "Nautilus.”

of only 29 knots and very ligh CANADIAN PACIFIC

batteries, which were intended as defence against torpedo craft.

In-1928-the-authorities of the Sydney Museum, Australia, offered £3,000 for the chest provided its

The idea was that they should claim to be Captain Cook's chest always be escorted, and thereforo, could be authenticated. As its the stowage of mines was made authenticity was merely a matter of almost the only consideration in word of mouth-the chest had been their design. They were only used handed from one generation to an once against the British, and then other--the offer fell through.

their low speed made them a per- The cheat was then sent to fect nightmare to the German the auction

of a Lon-Commander-in-Chief. don antique dealer, but, he. Eventually the Albatross was cause of the lack of definite proof.driven ashore by the Russians in failed to reach its reserve.

Even the Baltic, and was later salved by tually Mr. Sumner, who had heard the Swedes and interned, while the of the chest's history, purchased It Nautilus was kept out of harm's for a few pounds.

way in Kiel Bay and used for ex- While unpacking it he fancied parimenta.

which

room

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Another problem is the engineer- that, looking from certain angles, But in the meanwhile German,River? Then let us tell you that you ing one of maintenance. Experts he could discorn miniature paint-Italian, Austrian, and Russian have in store one of the most inter [649 tons-Capt. W. H. Lawton.] cannot tell, in advance, whetherings on the leather top.

He had light cruisers wore fitted to carryosting trips you can possibly toko. ships travelling at these amazing the top and sides of the chest photo mines when necessary, although The s.8. "Tai Ming" and "Tal_Hing,"

on panchromatic plates, the idea was

TUES. -not at all popular after leaving Hong Kong, call at Sam- speeds will need to be laid up for graphed

are specially sensitive to with most naval officers, as there shui, Shlubing, Takhing, Dosing and overhauling more frequently than

colours. The photographs revealed was too much danger of the ships stop at Wuchow. These steamers are For information apply to that hundreds of miniatures had getting blown up while engaged on admirably suited to this service and been painted all over the chest.

their proper cruiser duties.

you will enjoy the five-days' round When Cook-made his historic

British lagged right behind in

trip Immensely, artists with nine-laying, principally because it voyages he took two him. William Hodges, a land-was despised by the Navy as not scape artist, accompanied him on being gentlemanly, but we were the second voyage, and S. Webber, forced into it after the first few another artist, was with him on his months of the war. third voyage, and it is assumed that they were responsible for the paintings,

Tahiti Native.

into docks for five or six weeks in cach year. The actual size of the boats, too, is limited less by en- gineering considérations than by this docking problem, though some

shipping companies have found it worth while subsidising an- other concern to build a dock to take an extra large vessel.

Enormous Income

Against this formidable array of expenditure one can confidently set an enormous income. In the Among the pictures revealed by Brst place, the few ships will pro- the camera to be painted on the bably carry even more passengers chest is one of Captain Cook, signed at a time than the present giants, "S. W." There is also the name and it is expected, in shipping"Endurance," which was the name circles, that the passenger rates of one of Cook's ships, and also will be even higher than they are the name and portrait of Omal, a

native now.

of Tahiti, whom Cook But the vitally important point brought to England and later re- is not merely that these boats will | turned to his native country. carry a bigger paying load.

One of Cook's voyages lasted It is that they will actually three years, and the artists were carry a bigger paying load in two evidently short of material weeks than the present boats carry which to paint, for on the leather In three. Moreover, it pays enor- top and sides of the chest are port- mously to have "the blue. riband | raits of all manner of subjects In of the Atlantic."

queer headdresses painted on top Many countries now are build-of each other, the whole constitut-. ing or contemplating giant ships, ing a pictorial record of the in- Germany, France, Italy, and habitants of the countries visited America. There will be so many by Cook before ho was murdered

of them that not every company in the Hawaiian Islands, will be able to obtain a full load of passengers at the highest rates. There will always be a full load for the very fastest ships of all, those

LOS ANGELES, PANAMA, NEW YORK, BUSTON, BALTIMORE, AND that are, even. by a little, faster

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A SORRY TALE.

SHAREHOLDERS TOGO WITHOUT DIVIDEND.

Tuesday, oth Tersinber."

to-OSAKA SHOFEN KAISHA.

and more luxurious than any of their rivals.

"The dificulty is that speed is so expensive. After a certain pitch is reached every extra knot costs

Sunday, 30th November, Noan. twice or three times as much as the last. It may even cost as much to add two extra knots to 28 konts as the whole of the 28-knots cost to produce.

Saving Hours.

M. TAKEUCHI Manager

The loss of about £4,500 caused Shipping experts regard 80 knots by the detention of two of the comas essential for a weekly service. pany's ships through a strike at The actual time of the crossing, in Rosario is reflected in the present good weather, would be four days Accounta

and four nights, but no ship, oven "Conditions prevailing

in the imagination, can be guaran-

loss."..

since

A sorry tale is unfolded by the November, 1929," say the directeed to use its maximum speed directors of the Hazelwood Shiptors, "have been so bad as to make throughout the whole length of ping Company in their report for it impossible to avold trading at a

every voyago, in any weather. the year to May 16 last.. :

Atlantic billows cannot be dis- Net profits for the year have This does not compléte the tale Blumped from £9,479 to £694, and of woe, for. since the date of the regarded, not even by a hundred- thousand tonner." Forty-eight once again shareholders are to go accounts, the Eastborough, the hours is probably the minimum without dividend,

latest addition to the fleet, has had time in which the new ships could The additors state In their cer a serious accident involving heavy regularly discharge and load up tificate that the reserve for de- loss of time effecting temporary re again, though Cunarders have at a preciation of the company's steam paira

pinch turned round in 80 hours. ehips, appears to be fadequat "Prospects," the directions state,That leaves a bare 24-hour mar

WARSHIPS IN PORT.

on

The following British worships are in harbour, to-day:—

Borwick-West wall dock. Bruce South Wall."-- Kent--No. 6 buoy.

H.T. Lancashire-North arm. Marazion-In dock. Moth-East wall. Odin and S/M.-In dock. Otus-In-dock.

Medway and Subs.--No. 2 buoy, Petersfield-North wall. Serapis No. 8 buoy, Sirdar South wall. Somme No. 11 buoy. Stormcloud-No. 12 buoy Suffolk No. 3 buoy. Tamar-Basin.

Foreign Men-of-War. Argus-French gunboat, Mindanao-American' gunboat. Patria-Portuguese gunboat. Truxton-American gunboat..

STEAMERS MOVEMENTS ·

The B.I. 5. Talina will leave Amoy for this port on November 28, pm, and is due here on

The balance sheet shows team-are not hopeful. There continues gin for the weather. Fourteen November 29, p.m. ships at cost £406,923314 reserves to be a large number of ships teld days and nights between one The Bon Line a.. Beninwers for depreciation £126,506 16

Op, and until they are "ll absorbed voyage down Southampton Water from Middlesbro, Antwerp Len there can be no substantial or fast- and the sextulit,lalataggering i don, Straits and Manila la due to

ng Improvement

konca Harrive here on: December 1.

"Is added to this

against £10,000

Submarine Work.

KWONG WING

29. Connaught Road, Went,

Phone 2089S.

not commissioned until 1927, but j.ment from the first, and fitted British destroyers and sub when she was ready she was a re- number of surrendered German marines of the F and 1 types fitted markable ship and has proved very ships, which

absolete де carry mines for ex- with mine-laying gear did marvel-successful at manoeuvres and exer- cruisers, to

perimental purposes. lous work in the Heligoland Bight cises.

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and were dreaded by the Germans, She has a displacement of 760

CONSIGNEES' NOTICES but they were only make-shifts at end at fall speed can make 27 the best of times, and suffered knots with her turbine engines, but

Consignees of Cargo ex 0.8. from a makeshift's disadvantages. for cruising she has very economi-

After the war the Admiralty cal Diesel machinery. Her battery Java are reminded to take de- tried A noteworthy experiment consists of four 4.7-inch guns for livery of their gooda which will be subject to rent after Nóvember 29, and laid down H.M.S. Adventure use against torpedo craft or aero- na the biggest cruiser minelayer planés, backed by 24 small pieces, Consignees of Cargo ex conceived until then.

and she carries over 300 big Benrinnes are, reminded to take Under an Idea of mistaken mines,

delivery of their goods which will economy she took a long time to The French showed the very be subject to rent after December build, being laid down in 1922 and greatest interest In this expert- | 1.

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