1937-05-21 — Page 10

KREGISTERED);

MOLING

MOLINO

SHERRY

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THE CHINA HAIL, MAY 21, 1837.

The China Matail

nd Year of Publication

Wyndham Street, Hong Kong

Telephone" 20022. London Officer

has been to reserve for American theftoms. „passenger lan

traffic between" -

American or between America and all her dependencies. A British or Japanese vessel, for example,

not carry passengers may cargo between New York and San Francisco or between San Fran- All communications intended fozisco and Hawaii or the Philip- publication should be addres

7, Garrick Street, London, W.C.2.

Notice. To Contributors. WATAR Au communications intended for

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EMPIRE SHIPPING

PROBLEMS

or

pines During the recent ship- the Editor, and be accompanied b by ping strike in America, large the Writer's Name and Address, not necessarily for insertion but fines were imposed upon ship- owners, who violated this law on as a guarantee of good faith.

being indemnified by stranded Subscription Rates.

passengers The Japanese ship- ILE.$36,40

ping Law is similar. Yet steam- ers of the Dollar or the N.Y.K. lines

the world, voyage round calling at British port after Bri- tish port, and earning no incon- siderable portion of their income from conveying passengers and cargo thereby The effect of the adoption by the British Empire Japan's virtual refusal to dis of the policyBritish goods by cuss coastal shipping rights with British ships”” and of the imposi- the Government of India, in- tion throughout the Empire of dicated in cables, from Simla restrictions similar to those im- yesterday, suggests a strange posed by the United States or perspective in view of the dis- Japan, would be a very heavy cussions on Imperial shipping blow to foreign shipping inter- pending in London. Serious ests. A number of the routes questions to be discussed may now traversed by the big foreign lead to the direct protection of shipping companies would imme- British shipping travelling he diately become unremunerative, tween British ports from foreign and it may be doubted, with so competition and any decision much maritime tonnage now which has this effect is certain available, whether alternative to be more damaging

an

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ese interests than those depan paying routes could be found to any compensate for this loss. Japan other country. Lack of accom- now ranks third in tonnage maritime modation by Japan in the more among the world's simple matter of a regional Powers. Most of Japan's oversea except on the South coastal trade, where stronger shipping justification for privilege exists, American and direct American — calls at a succession of can scarcely he held in her routes -

British ports on each voyage. favour when large issues are under discussion.

She would be by far the largest Japan, in common with other sufferer from Empire shipping re- countries, has already expressed strictions if they are imposed. It is unlikely that the British anxiety over the possibility that the Empire Shipping. Conference Government will act impetuously may recommend measures for in abandoning its traditional the prohibition of foreign ser- policy of the freedom of the seas. vices between British colonies For factors other than the wel- and dominions. For it is obvious fare of British shipowners must that such measures would re- necessarily be taken into consi- volutionise world shipping. Of deration. Not least among them the important maritime Powers, is the growing resentment of Great Britain is one of the very certain European countries at few exponents of the doctrine of the lack of opportunity for over- colonisation. This resent- freedom of the seas in its sea literal sense.

Time was when ment would be exacerbated by the British Government, in

the sudden exclusion from Em- effort to promote the interests of pire trade of all their shipping. which are British shipping, placed drastic Even Governments restrictions upon the participa- not interested in colonisation tion of foreigu vessels in the problems would bitterly resent nation's oversea trade. The such a development, and the Navigation Acts of 1651, 1661, world-wide repercussions that and 1662 prohibited the importa- would ensue would certainly not tion of goods of any kind into the be advantageous to the British English dominions from Asia, Empire. It may be doubted, Africa, America, Russia, and moreover, whether the gains to Turkey, and very few from British shipowners would com- other European countries, pensate for the loss of foreign unless carried in English patronage of Empire ports. Hong vessels, or vessels belonging Kong and Singapore, which rank to the country from which the among the largest shipping ports goods came. The avowed aim of in the world, for example, rely this legislation was to encourage upon foreign flags for three- British shipping against the fifths of the ocean tonnage enter- heavy competition of the Dutch. ed and cleared. Many owners The last restrictions upon the would undoubtedly omit them trade of foreign vessels in the and use alternative ports. The British Empire were removed in British Government cannot re- 1854, when legislation was adopt- main indifferent to the effects of ed which permitted foreigners to subsidised foreign competition engage even in the English coast- upon its own shipping concerns. ing trade, though the Customs But all alternative courses ought the Act of the previous year provid- to be examined before ed for the imposition of restric- British Government accepts the conclusion that restrictions tions upon the shipping of coun- tries which debarred British ves- against foreign vessels trading sels from trading with them among the parts of our far-flung This liberal shipping policy has Empire offer the only solution of been pursued to this day, though its shipping problems. several of the self-governing In the meantime, no harm dominions have prohibited ves- would be done by a spirit of rea- sels under foreign flags from sonableness among those coun- participating in their coastal tries invited to contributed to trade.

modification of those problems The policy of the United States | by consent.

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