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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.)

8.8

Tons

From Hoạt Hoat About

1933,

Jan.

KARMALA CHITRAL *KASHMIR NALDERA **SOUDAN

Destination.

M'avilles, L'don, R'dam & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London. M'acilles, Ldon, R'dam & A'werp. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

MERCANTILE MARINE.

Foreign Sailors in British Ships.

THE CHINA

other than Lascars and Arabe, who

MAIL.

the Statute Book, for which I was 3. Shipowners bringing their responsible in Parliament, every vessels to British ports with Chin- British ship must carry a British ess, Asiatic, or Arab crews, and captain, first officer, and chief en paying them off, should be compell. gineer. But that is as far as the ed to repatriate the Asiatics. British House of Commons would 4. After a certain date no for then go.

A liner or intermediate | eign officers or engineers should be or a large cargo steamer, with allowed in British ships trading to crew of 100 or more need have only home ports, provided suitable Bri- threa British subjects above and tish officers and engineers were below decke,

available.

scores

excuse is DIRTY SHIPS.

or the docile,

Plaint of Manchester Authority.

Officers of our Mercantile Marine met to consider the situation created by a proposal from shipowners to reduce their pay by from 10 to 20

I have tackled many shipowners

One per cent. In the following article, on this subject. which appeared in the Daily Mail, that the Asiatic fireman, Lieut.-Commander Kenworthy ad- foreign seaman, is more

Another

seamen is that British vocates legislation to restrict the employment of foreign sailors in occasionally get drunk!

Our men British ships.

have their faults, but drunkenness Steps are being taken to protect among our seamen has decreased Complaint has been forwarded to British labour on shore. Surely enormously in recent years, And the Shipowners Federation by the the position of British seamen in time of peril, and emergency the Manchester Port Sanitary. Au- afloat is worth protecting.

Englishman, Scotsman, or Irishman thority as to the dirty condition of

He may Unemployed British seamen have is the most reliable.

bo some ships. The Authority reports doubled in number during the last fond of his glass of beer or whisky. that of 110 British ships inspected two years. There are now over but he never panica.

14 were dirty and verminous, while) 33,000 without ships. And this. And how can we expect the best 62 foreign vessels were inspected state of affairs is not only because type of man, physcially and men and all were clean. An official of of slack trade and lack of freights. tally, to stick to the ses nowadays Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority, More than 14,000 foreigners, when there is no security at all for in discussing the matter with the his employment? I know literally Liverpool correspondent of the are technically British subjects, are whom any country would be proud. ing British ships with foreign of men, prime seamen of Nautical Magazine, said in compar- to-day serving in all capacities on board British merchant ships re-

who have left the sea in disgust and vessels coming to our ports it must giatered at British seaports.

taken any job on land that offered be remembered that the former That Ha what British firemen, seamen,

iteslf.

were returning to home ports and stewards, cooks,

There are, of quartermasters,

course, difficulties that the crews were at once paid ship's carpenters and donkey-men, in legislating; many of our cargo off. The foreigners, on the other our own kith and kin, walking the steamers are employed exclusively hand, were actually living on their streets of our seaports to-day un- on foreign runs, and we could hardships in port and discipline was able to get berths, have to put up China coast and in the Indian trade general custom for the cleaning up

ly insist on British crews. On the maintained.

It Was & pretty

Workless War Veterans.

Chinese and Lascars are normally or a ship to be done between the Many of these out-of-work marin. employed.

departure of one crew and the entry But it is the ships trading re-into possession by the ers are veterans of the Great War,

we The eradication of vermin was in men who put out to sen in unarmed gularly to home ports that

should be most concerned about some instances a most difficult mat- merchant vessels to bring vital sup plies to this country during the in- And there is a social evil, in some ter, but modern methods were being! ports already assuming alarming increasingly used with good results. tensive submarine campaign.

The increasing colonies of Arab proportione. The Araba and other British shipowners had voluntarily seamen and firemen in our home coloured seamen employed in ships made great strides since the war

ore, perhaps, the worst regularly trading

to British ports in planning their ships and keep- their homes naturally make In 1930, 4,404 Arab sea

oning them clean. All vessels enter

British shipowners in British ports to man British ships.

the first six months of the present year 2,025 Arabe were engaged before the eyes of crowds of British sea- men standing idle and disheartened outside the shipping offices.

But it is not only Arabs who are being given preference. We have had cases in Hull and Liverpool of

with.

9,000 16th 15,000 30th Jan. 9,000 13th Fab. 16,000 27th Feb. 6,800 6th Mar.

CARTHAGE

16,000 12th Mar EAJPUTANA 17,000 26th Mar.

BURDWAN 5.500 2nd Apr. Bombay, Marseilles, London, Havre, scandal.

London.

RAWALPINDI

15,000 9th Apr. 17,000 28rd

7th 17,000

15,000

21st

CORFU

RANPURA

CHITRAL

RANCHI

NALDERA

KAISAK-I-HIND

20,000 12,000 2nd

18th

17,000 4th

Apr.

May

May

London, Havre, Hamburg, m. Anwerp & Hull. Marseilles & London. Marseilles & London.

ports

new one.

Rotterdam

& Antwerp. men and firemen were signed on by shore. They form alliances withing the port of Liverpool were(

Marseilles & London.

Marseilles & London,

Bombay, Marseilles & London. June

Hombay Hombay, Marseilles & London. June Bombay, Marseliles & London, July Bombay, Marseilles & London. RAJPUTANA 17,000 16th

July Bombay, Marseilles & London, 11,000 30th July Bombay, Marseilles & London. RAWALPINDI 17,000 15th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 17,000 27th Aug. Bombay, Marseilles & London. 11,000 10th Sept. Bombay, Marseilles & London.

MANTUA

BANPURA

MALWA

* Cargo only. Calls Casablanca. Calls Djibouti Frequent connection from Port Said for Passengers and Cargo to Con- stantinople, Pireans, Smyrna and other Levant Ports by steamers of the Khedival Mail Steamship Co.

BRITISH INDIA-APCAR SAILINGS.

1982.

*SANTHIA

TALMA TALAMBA

8,000 8th JAD

8.30 p.m. 10,000 22nd Jan. 8,000 6th Feb.

Singapore, Penang & Calcutta.

Fur

the condition of store

white women; a numerous half-

visited by inspectors as soon ឆន easte population is growing up and possible after docking, and after causing anxiety to the educational inquiries as to health and the water authorities and the police.

supply, These Arab and Chinese seafar rooms, tanks, and bilges, the inspec- ing men always claim to be British tors visited the crew's quarters, subjects. Every Chinese deckhand paying particular attention to ing he was born in Hong Kong, harbourages, accumulation of rab- or cook always carries papers show-cleanliness, structural defects, rat though in many cases he cannot bish and so on. Any defects were steamers' paying off their entire even speak the Hong Kong dialect. attended to by shipowners without crews and for the next voyage tak-Aden as his birthplace; and there Nearly every Arab fireman claims ing none but Japanese.

And there is precious little

are more Arabs employed in British; ciprocity.

ships than the whole adult popula A British seaman out of a ship has little hope of getting

tion of that small Dependency. The work in an

number of Lascars employed al- American, German,

together, French,

including vessel. or Italian

The

non-British Governments of all these countries subjects, is 82,682.

re-

have laws compelling a certain per- Some Necessary Reforms. [centage of their own nationals to. I advocate the following reforms,

the Liverpool medical officer of any difficulty. The last report of

health to Liverpool Port Sanitary Authority stated: "There is a general tendency to improve in the matter of cleanliness, and although crews' quarters are still left dirty when the men pay off they do not appear to be as dirty as they were formerly." The official added that when a crew left a ship they were very like a shore family leaving engage a British crew. The Japan 1. Every British ship should be one house for another. Incoming ese Navy Department would have compelled, to carry, a percentage of tenants were apt to say: "What a something to say about it if he did. white British crew. The actual dirty house they have left!" BL Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for 1st The naval chiefs of the Island, Em-figure would have to be fixed taking and Zad class passengers.

pire of the East look upon Japanese into account the number of British. sailors and firemen, whether em seamen now available, and could be ployed under the Japanese flag or increased from time to time. potential reserve for the Imperial | Japanese Navy.

Calls at Port Sweltenham.

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be carried affont in their own ships. for which legislation would be

No Japanese shipowners dare needed:

EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South). the British Red Easign, es a

NELLORE TANDA NANKIN

1982

7,000 30th Jan. 7,000 4th Har. 2nd Apr. 7,000

Manila, Rabaul. Brisbane, Bydney

& Melbourne.

Begular monthly asilings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan

and Hong Kong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-19 days.

Frequent connections from Australia with the following:-

The Union S.S. Company's steamers to the United Kingdom via Naw

Zealand, Vancouver, San Francisco, etc.

The P. & O. Royal Mail Steamers to London and

The P. O. Branch Service of steamers to London vis Buen.

The New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers for Southampton and London via Panama Cankl.

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SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

KALYAN ALIFORE TALAMHA KASHMIR BOUDAN

NALDERA STANDA ROARTHAGE

BURDWAN RAJPUTANA CORFU SHAWALPINDI

SOMALI RANPURA

BANGALORE

NALDERA

I

1982 9,000 10th Jan. Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

5,300 18th Jan, Shanghai, Moji & Kobe.

8,000 1 15th Jan. Amoy, S'hal, Moll, Kobe & 'hama. 9,000 16th Jan. Shanghai, Moff, Kobe & Yokohama. 6,800 58th Jan.

Jan Shanghai, Kobe & Yokohama.

16,000

7,000 5th Feb.

15,000

12th ̈ ́ ́ Feb;

6,500 31st Feb.

12,000 28th.

Kobe & Yokohama Moji, Kobe & Yokohams.

Koh

Kobe & 4

Kobe Yokohama

15,000 11th Mr. Shanghill, Kaba Tokohama. 17,000 24th Mar. Shanghal, Kobe & Yokohama.

6,800

Kobe & Tokobaya

1,000 97th - APE

16,000 214t Apt. Robe

0,500 28th Apr 17,000 5th Hay

&

Yokohama.

A Tokoham

Khan's hope. A

Kobe & Yokohama.

16,000 19th May Shanghal, Hojl, Kobs Yokohama.

AIBAR-I-HIND 12,000 2nd June Shanghai, Moji, Kobe: Yokohama.

June Shanghai, Hope & Yokohama..

FATPUTANA

17,000 16th

SOUDAN

(8,800- 28th * June

Cargo only

Kobo & Yokohamaa.

2. In vessela trading between ports of the United Kingdom, or on the abort sea voyages to Europe, no Our Present Law.

Asiatic or coloured rating should be And what is the state of the law allowed, and the percentage of

NORTH GERMAN LLOYD.

A Favourable Annual Report.

The board meeting of the execu tive of the North German Lloyd

moving tributes to the late Presi-

in this country? Under a clause European allen seamen should be opened in Bremen with eloquent of the Aliens Act of 1919, still on limited.

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