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THE CHINA MAIL.

MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 1931.

YK.LINE

N.

REDUCED THROUGH TICKETS TO EUROPE VIA U.S.A, VARYING

FROM £83 TO £120 ON ŞALE

SAN FRANCISCO via Shanghai, Japan Ports & Honolulu.

SEATTLE, VICTORIA via Shanghai & Japan Ports.

LONDON, MARSEILLES, ANTWERP, ROTTERDAM via

Tuesday, Wednesday,

BOMBAY via Singapore, Penang, & Colombo.

Sunday, Tuesday,

SOUTH AMERICA (West Coast) via Japan, Honolulu, Los Angeles,

SHINYO MARU

20th January.

ASAMA MARU

4th February.

HIYE MARU (Leave from Kobe) .. HIKAWA MARU

Wednesday;

21st January.

Thursday,

12th February.

Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Suez.

HARUNA MARU

Saturday,

10th January.

KATORI MARU

Saturday,

24th January.

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via Manila & Ports.

KAMO MARU

Thursday,

22nd January.

KITANO MARU

Thursday,

19th February.

TANGO MARU

11th January.

TOTTORI MARU

27th January.

Mexico & Panama.

GINYO MARU

1st February.

KAWACHI MARU

Saturday,

21st February.

ATAGO MARU

Wednesday,

4th February.

DERBAN MARU

Monilay,

19th January.

CALCUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Rungoon.

+MURORAN MARU

AKMA MARU

Wednesday, Thursday,

7th January,

15th January.

MASUKUNI MARC

Wednesday, Thursday,

7th January, 8th January. 14th January, 23rd January.

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prospects of a good view are to be enjoyed off the Scotch coast. The appearance in 1919 off Hoy, and carlier appearances off Skye (a little too near the island of Rum and Muck), suggest that Scottish watering-places can advertise spe- cial attractions. The best that To be big and splendid and South Eagland can suggest for a SOUTH AMERICA (East Const) via Singapore, Cape Town & Forts, modest, and yet to be ignored. is a sea-serpont hunter's

The prospects for coal in com- holiday is petition with all as fuel were dis- poor life.

Lovers of animals, Black' Deep,' in the Thames Estuary, cussed in a series of papers sub- whether they subscribe to the where a fine serpent put its headmitted to the annual meeting of the R.S.P.C.A. or not, will hear with joy six or seven feet above the surface Institute of Fuel, which concluded: that the Sea Serpent has had a kind and was seen by H.M. Surveying at the Incorporated Accountants' Look written about him at last. It Ship in 1923, But the whole ocean Hall, Victoria Embankment. Ad-

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Tues.,

6th Jan.

LONDON, HAMBURG, ROT-| Altai Mara

TERDAM & ANTWERP }

vin Singapore, Colombo,

Suez & Port Said.

RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS La Plata Maru

Fri.,

6th Feb.

& BUENOS AIRES via

Saigon, Singapore, Golomn-

bo, Durban & Capetown.

BOMBAY via Singapore & Borneo Maru

Mon.,

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Colombo.

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pore & Colombo..

MELBOURNE via Manila, Brisbane Maru

Mon

Brisbane & Sydney.

CALCUTTA vin Singapore & Himalaya Maru

SUB

5th Jan,

18th Jan.

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VICTORIA,

SEATTLE,

African Maru (From

TACOMA & VANCOUVER

Shanghai)

Sat.,

via Japan Ports,

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Los Angeles & Panama,

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at Boston.

Philadelphia & Baltimore.

Thurs.,

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vice).

HAIPHONG via Hoihaw

Pakkol (Fortnightly).

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TAKAO via Swatow & Amoy

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STEAMERS' MOVEMENTS

24th Jan.

8th Jan.

10th Jan.

If

men

ARRIVALS OF SHIPS,

ia by a naval officer, Lieutenant- is the son Commander Gould. Too many naval ming pool.

do not Mr. S. B. Freeman, superintend- officers have judged it well to re- Bee him very often it ising engineer to Messrs. Alfred Holt member that theirs is a silent, ser-perhaps because in his serpentine and Company, In a paper on "Fuel vice, and to keep their mouths shot wisdom, not knowing what medi-Problems in the Mercantile Marine," for fear of ridicule instead of dis- cinal all he may not contain, the said that oil, whether in the oll closing what they have seen; and it sea serpent stays below, and pre-engine or for use with bollers, had is fitting that n naval pen should fers to be rare and semi-fabulous come to stay, and for the passenger boldly urge the case for the aca instead of being extinct.

ship was practically indispensable. serpent, and collect with plous care

Coal was still practicable for fleets the scattered records of his appear-

which were based on ances.

countries When the "Encyclopaedia

where ccal was found and oil was Britannica," which may be consider-

scarce. Developments in the use of ed representative in these matters,

mechanical grates, pulverized coal, will go no further than to say it

and improvements in condenser would be 'unwise to deny the exist

tubes were ence of the sea serpent," there is no

factors working to: doubt about the depth and reality of the human prejudice against allowing writhing room in the ocean to anything uncatalogued. Not to be in a museum is to have no right in the ocean. Small wonder if scamen have developed a superstition that it is unlucky to see the sea serpent when the hostility of landamen is so intenso. Perhaps it is no more than jealousy. Nearly every one feels at some time or another in early life the call of the sen, and when that call has been disregarded it is natural to like to think that not much has been missed. Men reconcile them- selves quickly to forgoing the other vaunted attractions of the sea-faring life the proud Vocabulary, the matrimonial spaciousness, the free- dom from the minor irritations of fixed residence and the steady trickle of unaccountable expenditure that only townsmen know. But it would need more philosophy than an or dinary man possesses to catch Baburban trains day after day knowing that at the very moment when he quarrelling about the rail- way carriage window his sailor brother, gazing out to sea, is bo- holding "to starboard, at a “dis- tance of a few hundred yards," that long amazing neck with the dark contours of a vast body. It is not surprising that the

grupes have

been called sour, and that the great sea serpent has been degraded to be the prey of comic artists and music- hall jeste. Japan arrived at Kebe on Janu- ury 4 (Sun.) at 2 p.m., left Kobe young midshipmen are taught that that ambitious on January 4 (Sun.) at 9 p.., it is bad form and likely to injure

The result is

Friday, January 2. Carignano, Italian str., 3,250 tons.gether to make possible the use of Capt. Angelo Capurro, from water-tube boilers fired by coal. Singapore, buoy No. A3-Bod- Dr. W. W. M. Meijer, chief well & Co.

superintendent of G.G. Maurice Long II.. French str., America Line, drew the conclusion the Holland 661 tons, Captain G. Agoatine. in his paper that the problem be from Saigon, buoy No. B17-tween coal and oil boiled down to M. M.

one of transportation." Mosel, German atr., 5,280 tons, menta in the pulverised fuel sys Develop Captain R. Wendland, from tem might raise the demand for Shanghai, buoy No. A6.-Mel- coal, but the fundamental difficul chers & Co.

ties of transporting coal were not Shun Chih, Chinese str., 1,251 tons, thereby relieved. If bunker conl

Capt. T. Thorbjorusen, from were to keep its place in competi Saigon, buuy No. C4-Chang tion with oil, it was essential that Tong Hong.

It should be supplied at a price ap Saturday, January 8. preciably lower than might be war- Ardent, Norwegian atr., 1,101 tons, ranted by its calorific value alone. Capt. E. Kroger, from Bang-Since the higher cost of production kok, buoy No. C5-Choo Yick had increased the difficulty of satis & Co.

fying the economic demand, it Buccinum, Norwegian str., 3,081 must be realised that coal wAD

tons, Capt. Carl Olsen, from gradually becoming Miri, North Point Wharf. that could not bear the cost of A.P.C.

transportation over long distances. Dozan Maru, Japanese str., 978 tona, Capt. Y. Mishima, from Port Wallut, Yaumati An- chorage. Wada Jimusho. Kwangtung. British str., 1,572 tons, Capt. A. F. Summarfield, from Amoy, buoy No. B14- B. & S.

Lushan Maru, Japanese str., 1,507 tons. Capt. R. Nagayama, from Canton, bucy No. R8 N.Y.K. Monado Maru, Japanese str., 1,285 tone, Capt. T. Kawamata, from Halphong, 0.5.K. Wharf. -O.S.K.

commodity

Mr. W. J. Muller, superintendent engineer of the Koninklijke Pakot- vaart Maatschappij (Rotterdam), Į in the use of coal and oil for many detalled the company's experiences years and the reversions to one or the other form at various dates. Diesel engineering finally led to the In 1929, he said, the progress in building of a series of "all-Diesci- driven" ships.

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remedial measures Buggested. Nevertheless, the alternative was to trust to the survival of the fittest, and if they could intelligently anti- cipate this process by the elimina- tion of redundant establishments rationalisation deserved earnest con- sideration. They recognised that part of their

present difficulties In his presidential address at might be traced to the building of A joint commentary on the papers Newcastle-on-Tyne before the tonnage abroad by the aid of sub- by Engineer Vico-Admiral Sir North-East Coast Institution of aidies or by lower wages, although Robert B. Dixon and Major W. Engineers and Shipbuilders, Mr. they did not presume to criticise the Gregson was read by the latter. John McGovern pointed out that policy of their foreign competitors Nellore, British str., 4,256 tons,

It stated that it must be conceded firms on the north-east coast wero In this respect. Any control of their Capt. A. 5.

that fighting ships, high-powered able to undertake auccessfully all output or prices must be considered Gordon, from Manila, Kowloon Wharf.-

ocean liners, and high-speed pas high-class types of construction..with respect to its effect on foreign M. M. & Co.

senger and mall boats, where the They recalled with pardonable pride aders which

come to Britain Captain P. J. Green, from high, must rely on oil to meet wonderful achievements of the being diverted elsewhere-and here Canton, buoy No. B15. modern requirements. A big pro Mauretanie, and, in particular, her the difficulty of securing inter tcr annual overhaul, and will sail'] Japan arrived at Yokohama on

The CP.S. R.M.S. Empress of expunged records of sea serpents, Sunning, British str., 1,670 tons came under the headings of inter- strenuous service to the latest pro

B. & S.

portion of the world's shippina spirited reply after 28 years of national agreement was obvious. for Vancouver via arte on Febru. January 3

or, as an almost equally humiliat- ary 18,-

(Sat) at 11.80 a.m., ing alternative, asked an Inspector

Capt. W. Shaw, from Swatow; left Yokohama The B.I. 8.8. Tilawa will leave (Sat.)

on January 3 of the Ministry of Fisheries for his

buoy No. B3.-B. & S. Amox for this port ou dandary 6, Hong Kong on January 9 (Fri.), collection of

at 6 pm, and is due at opinion. But Commander Gould's Tonkin, French str., 908 tons, p.m., and is due here on.

all the evidence,

Capt. J. Bonnamour, from January a.m.

She will leave Hong Kong covering two centuries, should make

Fort Bayard, buoy No. B21. The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of at 5 p.m.

for Manila on January 10 (Sat) powerful friends for the sea ser- peat, for the recorda show that

The C.P.S. R.M.S. Empress of and is due at Shanghai on Janu- the Navy Estimates if they talk Asia left Vancouver for Heng ary 6 (Tues.) at 2 p.m., and leaves too much about what they see. The Snochow, British str., 1,594 tons. factor of horse-power tonnage was the technical skill reflected in the and the likelihood of such work

Kong, via Japan ports and Shang-Shanghai on January 7 (Wed.) at Admiralty has oven, in unheroic hai, on January 3, and is due here 10. a.m. on January 26.Sc. will dry dock

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Last year the north-east coast DUTCH DESTROYERS.

COMPLETION OF A BUILDING PROGRAMME.

Satisfactory trials of the tor

mediate tonnage and small tonnage, duct of foreign scientific progress. The latter, except on certain ser: vicca, would appear to hold to coal launched vessels representing 750,- even with the average type of ma000 tons, equivalent to 46 per cent.. chinery to be found in the merchant of the output of the United King- лаку. At present the intermediate dom and the engineering shops com. Sunday, January 4.

type of tonnage was, na a general pleted machinery totalling 682,000 Anking, British str., 2,047 tons rule, fighting against oil with an-horse power. It was appropriate to

Capt. R. Ritchie, from Holhow, clent weapons. From a purely recall that the inventive genius of pedo-boat destroyer Van Ness, buoy No. A7.-B. & S.

natonal standpoint it would appear one of their past presidents, Sir built for the Royal Netherland An Lee, Chinese str., 992 tons, Capt. that to assist our national coal in Charles Parsons, had rendered pos Navy by Messrs. Burgerhout, to

S. Bano, from Canton, buoy No. dustry the development of the ible the efficient propulsion of the designs of Messrs. CL-Yee Tal Hong.

high-pressure steam machinery for high-speed vessels, including the new and Co., Limited, Scotstoun, have, Yarrow Brisbane Maru, Japanese str., intermediate tonnage should be express Cunard liner to be built on just completed on the Clyde. This 3,228 tons, Capt. R. Yamanori, looked upon as a national duty by the Clyde, and they trusted that the marks the termination of the pro- from Moji, buoy No. A shipbuilders and engineers. nchievements of the shipyards and gramme of eight new torpedo-boat O.S.K...

Mr. W. W. Marriner, of Measra.ngine works on the north-east coast destroyers, which the Clara Jebsen, Danish str., 1,145 Yarrow and Co., said that there might be rewarded by the construe Netherland Government decided

Royal: tons, Capt. J. Davidsen, from were conditions under which either tion of a sister ship to regain for upon in 1926. Samarinda, buoy No. 325 coal or oil was decidedly the better, Britain the blue ribbon of the Jebsen & Co.

but thera was also a largo

The first four destroyers-De Halching, British str., 1,288 tons, where careful consideration might held for so long by a product of that Kortensor-are sister ships, and field North Atlantic, which had been Ruyter, Evertsen, Flot Hien, and Captain. E. Walker, from Foo- be given to the question which was district. 'chow, Amoy and Swatow, Dong- the better. If steam was going to

Fembody the latest improvements in las Wharf.-Dougins 8.8. Co,

Proceeding, Mr., McGovern sold every respect. increase its share of this debatable that they could not blind themselves screws driven by Parsons turbines; They have twin Hanyang, British str. 1,207 tons, field, the effect would be to keep to the fact that the supply facilities and steam is supplied from three Capt. C. Harria Walker, from down capital expenditure and the re for engineering and shipbuilding Yarrow, bodies, each with integral, Canton, buoy No. 320B, & S. pairs bill and to reduce the con-were much in excess of the present superheater and having an Hiram, Norwegian str, 1,108 tons, sumption of fuel.

alt- Capt. E. R. Hannevig, from

demand and even of future proa baster in series, the boiler pressure Mr. Freeman, replying to pointspects so much. Swatow, buoy No, C6-Thore raised in the discussion, said that presidential address to an important the steam temperature 610deg. F.

so that a recent being 275lb. per square inch and *sen & Co. before

international competition in shipshipping conference contained the The second series of four vessels Ninghai, British atr., 1,482 tons, ping was merciless, and that the suggestion that the building of ships comprises Van Galen, Witte de Capt. Campbell, from Canton, British mercantile marine must keep should stop temporarily. They had With, Banckert, and Yan Neag, buoy No. B15-B & 8. pace with the shipping development proposals for the scrapping of older These vessels are of, similar form Shantung, British, str. 1,563 tons, of its competitors Shipping could and less efficient vessels, for restricto the first four, but have special Capt. J. S. G. Brown, trom not go back to its former methods, tions on the sale of certain ships to high pressure, high temperature Swalow, buoy No. 38.-B. & 8. but the coal trade must come to the foreign competitors, and the re-steam machinery, the boiler, pres-. Walshing, British, str., 1,170 tons, asistance of shipowners in main-organisation of their industry by sure being 400 lb. per sq. inch and Capt G. Hudson, from Swatow,taining the British carrying trade. permanently closing down some pro- the steam temperature 685 deg. F. West Point Wharf. M. & It was Inconceivable that all the portion of these establishments. To All of the above eight destroyers coalfields of the world, notably those age who belloved that supply was were built in Holland to the de- Yatshing, British str., 1,424 tons, in South Africa and the Yangtze governed by present or prospective signs and under the technical ad- Capt C. Alexandre, from Can Valley, could be left aseless walle demand sore fpconalstency would vice of Mesare Yarrow and Co. ton, buoy No, EJ, M. & Co. oll took the fold, v

appear to characterise certain of the Limited.