1937-07-03 — Page 11

SAVING PACIFIC SHIP LINES Empire May Grant Huge £3,000,000 Loan

BRITAIN TO CONTRIBUTE HALF

IF PARLIAMENTS AT HOME AND IN THE DOMINIONS AP- - PROVE THE PLAN FAVOUR-

·ED BY THE IMPERIAL CON- FERENCE THE RESTORATION OF BRITISH - SHIPPING SUP- REMACY ON THE “ALL RED” PACIFIC ROUTES SHOULD BE ASSURED.

The Conference has agreed to re- commend the grant of a loan for the building of two large and fast liners for service between Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, in place of the Niagara and Aorangi:

Owing to the rise in shipbuilding prices the cost of the two new ships is now estimated at about £3,000,- 000, instead of the £2,500,000 sug- gested by the Imperial Shipping Committee last year. Of this loan of approximately £3,000,000—the exact figure has still to be fixed- the British Government would con- tribute 50 per cent., the balance being provided by the Governments of Australia, Canada and New Zea- land, in proportions to be agreed

on.

Replacing Old Vessels

The Imperial Conference plan goes further than this.

It contemplates the modernisation during the next five years of the

The Bishop of Winchester, Dr. Cyril Garbett, visits the 4,000 Basque children who are at pre- sent in a camp at North Stoneham, near Southampton. The Bishop is watching the children as they put straw into linen cases for their bedding.

WOULD NOT

SAIL FOR SPAIN

BRITISH SEAMEN

FINED

FRANK VOSPER LEAVES CAFE TO FRIENDS

He left an annuity of £70 to Edith Walker, £500, the copyright of all

Mr. Frank Vosper, 37, the actor his plays, all royalties and any and playwright, who vanished over- other money in respect of his plays board from the French liner Paris to Geoffrey Hann, and the Garden on March 6, his body being found Restaurant, Ebury-street, S.W., to

entire fleets operated by the Union Members of two British ships Steam Ship Company of New Zea- crews who had objected to sailing on the beach near Eastbourne a Mrs. Horne (May Hallett) and land and the Canadian-Australasian for Spanish waters were concerned fortnight-later, has left gross estate Geoffrey Hann. Line, which jointly maintain the in proceedings at different courts. valued at £10,463, with net person- “all red” services in the Pacific. In one case the men were fined, and alty £6,236.

To this end the replacement of in the other their appeals against ships other than the Niagara and conviction and fines succeeded. Aorangi would be subsidised by

At Liverpool Mr. E. G. Hem-

the appeals of 17 men of the Stag When Sir Edward Beatty, pre-Line vessel Linaria against the sident of the C.P.R., arrived in Eng-Liverpool stipendiary magistrate's land, he stated that, if the neces-decision that they had combined to sary financial assistance were gua-impede the navigation of the ship. ranteed by the Governments con-

Fifteen of these men had been

The residue he left upon trust for his father, Dr. Percy Vosper, of tanmore, Middlesex, for life, with very serious danger, and it was the remainder to his sister, Mar- either by luckor bad markaman- jorië, Jessie Vosper, requesting her further loans at a low, rate of in-¡merde, K.C., the Recorder, allowed ship that they were not sent to the to provide for his mother during

terest.

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cerned he would immediately order fined £2 each, while two apprentices two ships of 22,000 tons and 22

were discharged under the Proba-

knots speed, for the Canadian-Aus- tion of of Offenders Act. They tralasian Line. It is understood that Sir Edward has since been in were alleged to have refused to sail touch with Dominion representa- tives.

In the discussions from which

the vessel because she was to take on for Spain a cargo of nitrate which might be used for explosives. Mr. Hemmerde, in allowing ......all the plan emerged considerable em- the appeals with costs, held that phasis, it is understood, was laid on the defence factor. It is, therefore, the men were justified in refusing probable that all the new ships to to go to Spain on the ground that be built under the subsidy scheme it was something outside the scope

of their original agreement. will be designed with a view to their eventual employment as naval, auxiliaries or

or transports.

At Sunderland 11 seamen of the Newcastle steamer Knitsley were

not

U.S. Fight to Keep Traffic each fined £2 for impeding the ves- It has been assumed all along sel's voyage. They pleaded that the United States would make guilty.

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a big fight to retain the lucrative Mr. J. Harvey Robson explained inter-Empire trade in the Pacific that on March 4, when the crew which it has developed by its were signed on at South Shields heavily subsidised shipping.

för Spain the articles included surprise, therefore, has been caus-special clause providing for a ed in Conference circles by Pre- per cent. bonus on the daily wage sident Roosevelt's appeal to Con- to be paid while in the war zone. gress for an appropriation of £32 There were also provisions covering. 000,000 to build more American

accident or injuries incurred. merchant ships.

It is felt, however, that if the When the ship had been loaded, routes in question were served by the men refused to sail unless they British liners fully up to modern received an additional £5 for the standards of size, speed and com-voyage. The crew was later paid fort, much of the British trade off and substitutes engaged. hitherto captured by the luxurious Mr. Grunhut, for the men, said U.S. Matson liners would be reco- that on the last voyage that these vered.

men sailed to Spain, they ran into

bottom.

her life.

Cook

by

Gas