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THE SHIPPING OUTLOOK.

OUNÄRDERS FOR HAMBURG.

JAPANESE COMPETITION.

BIG BRITISH MOVE. The most interesting trade problem af

Behind the fact announced by a New the reconstruction ern is shipping. Eri-York Shipping Correspondent that the dence of the changed state of affairs can Cunard Line is including Hamburg as a be found in a glance as the advertising port of call-lies evidence of the tremen- pages of this journal. Old-established dous bid now being made by British ship-| lines that have been but shadow of their

owners for the world's currying trade. Tormer selves are again in fall activity. The message is as follows:—

tormer great undertakings in carrying emigrants and' products between Central Europe and America ría Hamburg and New York.

Hitherto this trade has, been a State- subsidised monopoly of the German and Austrian shipping companies, against which American and British shipowners have bad small chance of competing on account of cut freights and passages and the low wages scale paid in the Gar-

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INDO - CHINA, SIAM," STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATES,. NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP- PINES, BORNEU, Etc.

FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL ISSUE.

and in place of the German ship thatan-införmed-of-a-remarkable-exten-FOR Bave disappeared we have half a down, zion of British shipping enterprise de- American lines operating fine new steam-signed to take from the Germans their ors on the Paine; while the rising im portance of trans racine-trade is shown In orders for lase new passengers vessels. The destruction of the war has been made good and the total steam tonnage anoat is ng present two and a half million tons greater tum in 1914. The situation is somplicated by the industrial paralysis ei central Europe and the elimination of Russia from international trade, but these are not permaneat factors, and the shipping trade is approaching a strenu ous period. Baron Londo, the President of the N.1. K., was appealing the other day to shipowners, for closer co-operation a

time when world-wide freight competi.large docking space and sheds at Hamburg tion is about to take place, ad the formerly owned by the Hamburg-American great company which the Baron controls tine, together with an hotel has never ceased to make preparation, by

The Cunard Company will open this accumulating vass reserves, for the day

new service with the Santia, which on when the artuggle would begin. Speaker next trip Ironi New York will incusko ing in New York recently Baron Kondo Hamburg as a port of call Other uners Aaid that Japanese ships would seek and cargo steamers will follow.

The details or later sailings. I under- freight wherever it was to be found and

man boats.

**The arst Bķītish company in the field, 1 learn on the best authority, s be Cunard Line, which is negotiating to buy

THE DIRECTORY covers the whole of the ports and cities of the Far East, from Net erlands fadia to Siberia, in which Europemas reside.

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be urd not exclude the idea of nuking a stand, have not yet been arranged, but the consisting of a hundred interesting articles, hid for a share of the trans-Atlantic { jiminary step on the part of British ship-packed with facts concisely set out, and movement is regarded as being the pre- trade. The N.Y.K. has shown its con- adence in its ability to compete by order-waers to make sweeping follection of containing statistics of the TRADE of each ing 20,000 tons of new shipping at pre-American-Continental trade sent prices, and it has very wisely built

large volume... itp a special fund against depreciation, recognizing that the present value of Lounge is fictitious and temporary. The special reserve is likely to be heavily drawn upon for it is calculated that ade

qante depreciation on a new steamer to- day ranges from 50 to 66 per cent of cost within the first three years.

MORE SHIPS; LESS WORK. ber of Shipping of the United Kingdom, Mr. W. J. Noble, president of the Cham told a representative of the Daily Mail that although the world has now 3,000,000 they are carrying, only two-thirds of the tons of shipping more than before the war

pre-war freight. In reat Britain only half the pre-war freights uro being carried,

Reserves can be built up against this, bat there is one vital factor in shipping entirely artificial. It is caused partly by This shortage of ships," he said, "18 competition which cannot be provided for the mistrust shown by Labour to the ship- in advance. Rising costs, with owner and partly by the Government wages in their train, have made a great restrictions on imports and coal difference in the relative positions of

Those Japanese and foreign shipping companies factors together are causing the dock con- as compared with 1014. Kr Conejiro Ito,

gestion which is temporarily holding the a.director of the N. V.K., in an article shipping industry by the throat. recently translated by the Advertiser, British shipping industry will embark on **Once these dificulties are overcome the pointed out that Japanese scamen and officers now occupied in respect of earn-

a period of bealthy prosperity such as it ings position between the merchant ser-

has never known. We shall carry more. vice of England and America. He said goods at lower freights-which is what all that the monthly wage bill of a 10,000 time, but I think we shall soon get over shipowners want to do. This is a bad ton British steamer was at present about it. Under existing conditions it is taking Y.8,000, and that of an American steamer three British ships to do the work of two about Y.12,000; the Japanese figure was and the consumer is paying two freights rather higher than the British and 1B for one." some cases it approximated to the Ameri can. This statement bears out the figures recently furnished to the London ship- piag journal, Fairplay, by. correspon- dent in Japan who gave the wages paid to Japanese Stews on two actual voyages:

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Besides t'e nsual Alphabetical List of DAIRY FARM NEWS Firma the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Centres.

The

ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in the Far East contains the names of over

20,000 FOREIGNERS, arranged, with the Initials so weil as the Surnames, in strictly Aphabetical Order,.

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NEW FRENCH AIR ROUTES PLANS FOR COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC.

M. Flandin, the French Under-Seere tary for Aeronautics, who returned from London on March 8th by air, accompanied by Colonel Sacconney and M. Charles 610 Brousse, has published a programme for 430 & proposed extension of France's com- 300 mercial air lines. State subsidies will be 240 granted to French companies employing French pilots and mechanics, and landing 940 places will be established on 940 throughout France, which will be mapped 210 out by the State Director of Aerial 180 Navigation. The new international routes 21 119 ILO proposed include:--

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Chief Officer

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Paris-Abbeville (for London); Paris-Tours-Angoulême-Bordeaux-Ba- yonne (for Spain);

Paris-Valenciennes (for Brussela); Paris-Strasbourg (for Central Europe); Paras-Dijon-Lyons-Marseilles-Balearic Islands (for Algiers); and

Paris Nice Corsica (for Tunis).

also proposed, including a few in North- A number of cross-country routes are crn Africa.

THE MPS AND PLANS

the principal ports in the Far East have in Great Britain and are annually engraved by one of the most eminent:

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The CHRONICLE covers the notable events together with the Texts of all the most important Treaties concluded with the countries of Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Cham- bers of Commerce, Scales of Commissions, Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp Duties, Postal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money, Weights and Measures and other Commercial Informa WAR AND ARMISTICE tion,

The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY though condensed in every possible manner contains every year more pages and now numbers nearly 2,000.

It is published at the Ofice of the * HONGKONG "DAILY" Pazza.".

The Directories and Descriptions are of :-

CHINA,

Peking. Tientsin.

Chiawangtao. Felta iho.

Taku. Antung.

Canton.

Chunkiang. Whompos.

Scochow

Nanking.

Dowloon.

Lappa:

Korkiang.

Hankow

AORKMOOD

Wuhu.

Manchurian, Yochow Nanning.

Trade Ctres; Shansi.

Newchwang.

240- 21 133 150 20 110 150 These approximate to American wages; the Y.150 yen paid on the 9,000-tog steam er to seamen stands just midway between $5 a month and 665 a month which were fixed as the standard wages for:able add ordinary seamen respectively in America That condition does not exist to-day with" after the strike along the Atlantic coast anything the same force. Before long the last year. There is a tendency towards training schools will supply the industry Dairen. the equalization of

seamen's ages with all the men and officers it needs. It throughout the world, and the creation of is unlikely that wages will fall generally Chotoo

Port Arthur. a great merchant marine by the United in Japan, the cost of living. being what Weihaiwel, States accelerates it so far as the white it is, but when normal conditions return Tainantu, nations are concerned, for men will in shipping, the difference between the Maiden. naturally be attracted towards the ships cost of skilled labour on land and on Shanghai. that pay them best. Japanese seamen,ships will disappear. however, are excluded from sharing in

Harbin

Wuchowiu.

Iching. K'Chadwan,

Chungking. Pakboi. Hangchow. Hoihow.

Niugpo.

Weachow. Mangt. Santu.

HoLow.

Fiochow. Stemao,

Amoy.

Kirni.

Lungkow

Tangyuah. Changchun, Etinchun.

JAPAN AND Formosa.

Osaka. Keelung. Moj..

Tainantu.

Nagasaki. Takow. Hakodate. Anping.

Tamani.

·ELITIAN SIZERIA,

Vladivostock.

· Nicolajevak.

Mokpo.

Chinnampo.

CHOSEN. Поплод, Fasan. Kunsan.

Pingyang. Songekin. HONGLONG AND na Difenacina, Mácia, FRENCH INDO-CHINA.

this tendency by the La Follette law, and Japan will retain some part of her ad Lungchingchun

Sofar as wages go, it seems likely that Swatow. the fact that American pressure will drive vantages though the handicap, in her fav the shipping wages of European reamen our will not be so great as in the Y.25 upwards seems likely to prove in the long a month days, and to get the full benefit Tokyo. run an advantage to Japanese shipping.

The conditions described by Mr. Ito and to increase afficiency to a point at which Hyogo.

of their advantage shipowners will have Tokobama. by the London journal are temporary and numbers can be equalized. The most seri- Kobe. artificial. They belong to the time when ous difficulty for many of the shipping Shimonoseki. Japanese shipping had outrun the supply companies will be the fall in freights and of trained personnel; when

seamen in values. During the war ships were brokers" were squeezing fat profits but worth Y.1,000 a ton deadweight and prices of the business of supplying officers and in Japan still range about Y.300 and senmen to shipowners: when the profits 250 a ton. In America new ships are were so great that a skilled man could quoted at $400 a ton. Those values ara Seoul, Ket almost what he liked to ask for. obviously temporary. The 1,400,000 tons Shamsulpo. These days are past. Shipowners and the of standard ships sold last year by the Government have opened training schools, British Government averaged £23 a ton and the conditions described will soon and shipowners consider that figure to attract plenty of excellent material to the be higher than normal conditions will Hanoi. profession. Before the war the wages of warrant. Japanese sailors were about 7.25 ja the safe course is to write off in the next Tonkin

British authorities argue that Haiphong. month. They have risen to T.15 and three years two-thirds of the cost of ships Provinces. Y.100 and even to Y.150, but they must bought now. eventually be regulated by the wages pre- stand depreciation at that rate, and Manila."

Only strong companies can vailing on shore. Dr. Kisbi, of the Shi-Paron Kondo was talking the language Laura Ironworks, stated in the Adveciter of arcessity when he warned Japanese Bar the other day that the average wage earn, shipowners that they must co-operate in British North Borneo. ed by his men was Y.70 a month. Con face of the worldwide competition with. sidering the attractions of the shipping which thes, are faced. Predictions would, service it is obvious that seamen will not of course, be futile. Investors cannot be Perak. long earn Y130 a month while men of too careful,

Annam. Tour son Hue.

Saigon. Quinhon. Cambodge.

PHILIPPINES. Ibile.

BOENZO. Brunei,

Caba

BANGKOK.

Belangor. „Malax StatMO.-

Pahang Kedan. Perlis.

equal skill and muscle only get Y.70 on cheap and plentiful transportation for Kalantan.

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