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A NEW P. &.0. MAIL STEAMER.

ling is of full height, decorated "with carved mouldings and painted in a light buff colour of two shades. The furniture

of French polished mahogany uphols

Between the two tered in mequetly

THAL TRIP OF THE MOLDAVIA

This vessel, the latest to be completed dining saloons the galleys, pantries, etc. cl the P.&O. Company's post war mail are conveniently placed for the service of Imediately bearath the steamers, just delivered by Messes, Camrither saloon. mell, Laird & Company, ran a series of Halleys on the deck next below are the successful trials at Birkenhead last month Burser's store-rooms and the insulated and left the Mersey for Tilbury Dock pre chambers for the carriage of the ship's pratory to her maiden departure for Provisions. The remainder of the shelter Australia on October 17th, She bears the deck is occupied by second saloon cabins aar of a P. & O. steamer well known flanking a range of bathrooms and lava on the Australian trade which was last tories, including an apartment designated in the war while employed as an armed peculiar to cast-going stanmers whore the "Ayahs Wash place - Bature merchant cruiser,

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A special correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph wrote the following account of the Opium discussions at the [BY DAVID FRASER IN THE TIMES

League of Nations Assembly on Sept. Lord Palmerston attempted to per 15th- sunde the House that the trade with The Assembly resumed the discussion China

was of so great important of the opium report and the resolutions. to the working classes of this country, Mr. Chao Sin Chu said China was that. it was worth while to en- ready to cooperate with the rest of the counter the greater expenses which have world in suppressing the opiumi traffic. been incurred. Now I will venture to and had already done her best to fulfil say that our trade with China for thirty the obligations imposed by the Opium There were still, however, years has not left one single farthing of Convention

The new Voldria presents à variation foreign colonics near China which per from the type of previous ships designed profit.-BRIGHT.

If you look back for the last thirty-mitted the sale of opium for smoking, and for the F. & D. Company's Australia Auple natural ventilation is provided five years you will find that China is the certain opium producing countries, had only country that has disappointed you; in no degree reduced the output of the mail line which will not lessen her throughout the ship and is reinforced by that is, that the exports to China have drug China itself did not produce one popularity with voyagers to and from the generous outfit of electrical ventilang Southern Dominions. The Jaiders, and tans in saloons, čabins and bathrymas. Of not kept pace with the natural increase ance of opium, but many tons of mor- arkunde, which have been put into ser the passenger accommodation generally in of your trade in other directions. phia had been smuggled into China

vico on their completion within the last may be said to be characterised by en Last year your exports do China werd during the Inst few years, and her

tro years, are as passenger steamers fort and coolness, as befits a ship' de £3,500,000.

China stands only people were acquiring the habit of

Tiral descendants of their forerunners of signeck for travellers in the tropies and,. twelfth in the list of your foreign cushygudermic injection, which was more tomers.-ConDEX.

dangerous than the old habit of opium the "M" class, for, while exhibiting the the public rooms, by a restful scheme In 1884 Lord Palmerston, one of the sucking, China, therefore, appealed to best qualities of their, predecessors, they of interior decoration which will gratify, few Brilish statestues who understood the League for immediate action in the are distinguished from them in that they the restrained taste of Eastern voyagers Horizontal and vertical sliding waters the Chinese questions, was being attack suppression of the export of morphia to embody the accumulated improvement in ed in the House of Commons lar his countries from which it might be smug design based upon experience in the tight nofs are Acted in the watertight bulkhends below the shelter-deck, and operation of the earlier ships, in gradu policy in China, and in the forefront gled into her territories, were those worthles" whose words are The Maharaja of Nawanagar delivered ally increasing numbers, over a period of these are so arranged that they may be. quoted above. They would have jettisoned very interesting speech on Ishalf of seventeen years. While in the Mulderal worked by hand or by the Stone-Lloyd. our interests China rather than spend India. He began by an amasing refer and Sarkad, each approximately of hydraulic system.

The Moldavia's holds are to a large. a penny in promoting them. Palmerston ence to Lord Chelmsford, who spoke in 10,000 tons gros, with a length of 605 feet, took the wider view, and subsequent the debate yesterday and who is describ- accommodation is provided on four deckaj extent insulated for the carriage of re- developmenta, have proved his farsighted-ed in today's Geneva papers as a for 668 first and second salon passengers, frigerated Australian produce." She is Eindoo. Continuing, he said the ordi- the Hulduria, (and her sister the fun capable of stowing 13,300 tops,, dead]=" For good or ill, Great Britain is an ary Western citizen believed that every solia), of the same tonnage and length, weight, and possesses large cargo hatch- industrial country, and nothing can be Indian grows opium and every Chinaman are designed for a lesser number; their ways and an outfit of cargo lifting gear plainer than that, ber future depends smokes it. He was not, of course, thinkerthing nlan providing for 2 first and which includes 2 tubular steel dericks. upon the sale of her manufactured goods. ing of ladies and gentlemen who came to 175 second class passengers, a total of 307, one of which is capable of a lift of 30 tons-

The chiet difference is Upon the profitable prosecution of this Geneva and made history, bit only of a three decks.

The vessel is propelled by twin-screw business depends her ability to enrry those who stayed at home and made that while the main deck and the three double reduction geared turbine machinery the mountain of debt incurred during the public opinion. He begged people to be decks above it are, in the Yahdere, de manufactured by Messra Cummell, Laird war and to maintain her position among fieve that in certain Eastern countries, voted to "Passengers' various uses, the & Co. who have constructed the ship and

nations of the earth. In these including India, there was

a legitimate new Holdaria carries all her pussengers this engines from designs prepared in con- circumstances what could be more applic and general use of opium. It was em accommodation above, the upper deck, sultation with the P. & O. Company's able than the attitude of Palmerstonployed as homemade medicine just as on the pronienade, shade and shelter decks naval architect, Mr. C. G. Deang and

It presented sound policy in 1861, herbs and simples were used by country respectively.

their superintendent engineer, Mr. Robert and all the more so to-day, for the folk in Western nations. It was import-

The first and second saloon promenade Lesite, O.B. E. She is comminded by Capt.. China tale is now a proved quantity,aut to recognise that India suffered decks afford ample spaces for games, Cecil W. Burleigh, D.S.O., R.N.R. steady and ever-growing. All who know a loss of forty millions of revenue owing dancing or other forms of exercise er the Far East, moreover, are united into State restrictions on the production entertainment. The cabins are generally the belief that only the fringes of Chipa of opium, and the loss to prolucers wig

on the Inchcape plan, each having access; have been exploited and that the potenthree times that; but India was proud by its own polthofe or portholes to onl commerce is incalculable... Stable to make a sacrifice in 4 goll cause side light, aid air. On the promenade goveryment and improved communica India produced and consumed a large deck are the first-saloon music and amok The Marine Insurance Correspondent of tions are needed and, when established. amount of opium, but opium was the ing rooms, lying, respectively fore and the London Daily Telegraph writes:A. will create a field in which there is room Indian paralled to alcohol in the West, aft of a range of fourteen single or two short while ago there was much discussion for the enterprise of all the nations. and Indian soldiers regarded a small Present conditions in China are bad, but dose of the drug after a long maren in berth cabins with, amidships, baths and concerning the alleged discrimination lavatories. The first-saloon music-room which London underwriters were showing. they are not so bad as materially to affect the same way as European soldiers re

surmounted by an oval stained glass dome against risks on cargo carried in German the volume of trade,

garded, tea, coffee, or a glass of wine oris panelled in finely figured grey wood of vessels. To this the underwriter replied Trade with Europe to-day is only a beer. But the local consumption in delicate shade, with gilt decorated enrich that if there were discrimination it was fraction of what it was, and no possible India was only two, grammes per head!

ments. A roatianous frieze ornamented on account of the fact that German vessels improvement that can be conceived can of the population, including its use in gilt runs along the upper part of the were not regarded as such good risks as restore is co its pre-war dimensions veterinary medicine for cattle, The within the next decade. The China trade United States consumed twice as much.elling. Fine Buted columns with gilt those of most other maritime uations. As is straining at the leash, eager to bound He was glad that efforts were being made spitals support a flat ceiling, which is a matter of fact, the German shipowners. ahead. It needs but a turn of the polito prevent the abuse of opium, but how panelled with enriched mouldings. The raised the ery against discrimination tical wheel, and a little improvement ever desirable it might be, it was none and numerous easy chairs and chester accept vessels which were undoubtedly of fuzaiture, consisting of a grand piano because London underwriters would not of the general situation, to open out as the 's difficult, in the course of daily felds, in French polished mabogany, con- the tramp" clais at liner" rates. new and magnificent vista of trade op-life, for everybody to be philanthropists trasts well with the grey wood panelling

all the time. (Cheers.)

Be this as it may, it is now an estab Sir Arthur Steel-Maitland" (New These are big words. Let us examine

From this saloon a line stairway with fished fact that if it be difficult to insure.

оп named German vessels as sober fact, as detailed in the Customx Zealand) urged the vital importance of decorated iron, balustrade leads to the cargo report on the foreign trade of China for the Government's cbtaining control of the rooms below. The first loon Finoking separate risks, underwriters "still accept room is walled in oak of the earlier declarations of cargo by those sume vessela 102 The total foreign trade, exclusive drug traffic..

Lieut.-Colonel John Ward (Great

English period with mouldings and-amall on open covers, without any increase of of treasure was, in 1901. 437,39,000.

It is true that some underwriters taels (60,500,000); in 1911, 843,842,0x Britain) indignantly denied the cor. panels, surmounted by a friczy "in the rate.

Both the columns are very unwilling to accept risks by Ger- in 1921, plicity of the Hongkong Government in half-timbered style. taels (113,200.000): and 1,507.377,000 taels (301,400,000). The the opium traffic, and said that no supporting the stained glass done and the man vessels either by named vessels or on tal figures provide the truest index to week passed without fires, confiscation, ceiling benes are encased squarely in oak, open covers, but nevertheless business has. connection with and comfortably upholstered oaken furni been done, and the fact must be faced that the expansion, as the sterling equivalent and imprisonments in is calculated at the average exchange, this trace. He then went on to say that are completes the room's equipment; in a market now exists for cargo by German, which in 1921 was 30 per cent. higher it was the abare, not the legitimate use. Adjacent "recesses are the bar and lava vessels, on equal terms as that for goods.

in British vessCIA .. than in 1901.- Roughly speaking, the of opium which constituted a danger, but torium. foreign trade of China doubles itself if faddists were to be believed there was every ten years. It should be noted that a danger in the use of most things. Beer, opium, which Egured as a large item whisky, tobacco, and even meat were all of import in 1901 and 1911, is practically done, we are going to be controlled dangerous.. "I" concluded Colonel non-existent in the returng of 1921.

by Eaddists, first in opium, then in engineers.. alcohol, then, I suppose, in meat, by the Lord presently we shall not know what we dare eat or drink, and the world will he ruled by fanatics. (Laughter.) think the League has more important things to do, and while I support the proposals before the Assembly, I ask fanatics to cry a halt, and give the reasonable, average a chance

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portunity,

WONDERFUL FROGRESS.

It is true that the British percentage of the whole has steadily declined from something like 80 per cent, at the end of the cestury to a little over 40 per cent. in 1991. On the other hand, during the war the percentage dropped well below the present figure, and has only recently shown marked improvement. In any case, 40 per cent of three hundred millions represents 22 very handsome turnover. The percentages in 2013 and

1991 were.

Britain and dependencies, 45.20 "per in 1921; cent, in 1913, 40.67 per cent. Japan, 18.30 per cent. in 1913, 95.59 per cont. in 1991; United States, 100 per cent in 1913, 16.96 per cent, in 199

Any comparison of trade percentages would be incomplete without a reference to the tonnage tables.

British......

1920.

TONNAGE ENTERED AND CLEARED...,

1013. 38,000,000 2,400,000 10,000,000 6,300,000

Japanese

Chinese

German

Russian

French

United States

(Cheers.)

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The resolutions were then adopted un- animously.

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PROHIBITION IN THE FORD

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Opening out from the after end of the music-room is a well furnished verandah, open to the air at the sides, but sheltered cabins and bath-roinns, of the officers. and by the boat deck above, where are the

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This undoubtedly means increased com- petition for the British cargo, owner, but it also means much more serious com. were more expensive to insure goeds by petition for the British shipowner. If it.

German steamers, the British owner could

Midway on the shade-deck below thers compete on level terms with his German competitors, but with insurance at the are placed, port and starboard,, ranges same price, the German owner has an of cabins for one or more occupants, with enormous advantage on account of the an ample installation of lith-rooms, etc..

Recept.

CHINESE NATIONAL ANTHEM,

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Here, at the forward end, in the Parser's much lower freight that, he is able to

bin and office and a spacious lounge or entrance hall; at the after end are the surgeon's cabin, the dispensary and hos pital cabins, and it may here be added that there is besides an isolation hospital, An Army Order (A.O. 320 of 1929).. itted independently for male and female states that settings of the Finnish and " patients, at the extreme after end of the Chinese National Anthems have now been' promenade deck beneath the docking published, and that all military bands bridge. Farther aft on the shade deck is should be in possession of at least one set. the broad second saloon promenade and of the music of each anthem. the second music and smoking rooms. . The Chinesc music is pantatonic, or built Mr. Henry Ford announces that in Pmoking zoom walls are interually of oak on a scale of five notes. But this tune is consequence of the laxity of the authori in small square panels. Card tables of in the diatonic scale of Western usage. ties in carrying out the provisions of the oak and chairs of the same wood up- It comprises two clauses, each of eight Prohibition Law, he proposes to take the bolstered in feather give the room a com bars, quite in the most orthodox Euro- question," as far as the men employed in fortable and cool appearance which is pean manner. It is in F major, with the bia motor car factories are concerned, iuto enhanced by encased ceiling and beams first clause ending on the mediant. In his own hands. Recently, he states, painted in flat white. The second music fact, there is not a trace of exotic davour. 42,300,000 several flagrant instances of men being leon, furnished. in French polished It strikes ono as a dignified, worthy tune,.". 31,700.000 intoxicated inside the factory have been mahogany, is finished and decorated in but its range readers it a not very prac- 31,700,000 brought to his notice, and in several cases two shades of light buff, with an encased tical national anthem, at least, if it is. rious accidents have resulted. In future ceiling in fat white decorated with to be sung as well as played. It twice- 1,000,000

500,000 therefore, any man having the odour of enriched mouldings. From this roam & touches Obelow the treble stave, and also, 1,200,000

1,200,000 beer, wine, or liquor on his breath, or stairway of mahogany with decorated iron in the second clause, boldly rings out re-

··800,000 4.500.000 having any of these intoxicants on his balustrade leads to the saloons below, peated F's an octave and a fourth above All countries ... 83,344,000: 114,810,000 person or in his home, will lose his post.

On the forward portion of the shelter the singing of which would be a trial' Closer inspection of the figures makes tion without excuse of appeal."-

deck, again, are first saloon cabina, in for any ordinary mass meeting in the instructive reading. Cotton imports for

cluding single-berth cabins, with port and Weat. 1013 Were 182,000,000 taeli (say,

starboard alleyways opening, aft, on to taels in 1913, and rose to 150,000,000 £23,000,000), and in 1021 208,000,000 taelsels in 1921. Tes fell from twenty-five (say, 41,000,000). Or this volume, tha British share in 1913 was eleven million millions to twelve, cereals rose from nine panion ore passes alt to the first THE METHOD OF MOUNTING to nineteen millions, cigarettes rose from width of the vessel, is lighted by twenty

dining saloon, which extends through the spectació gizzzes I of the grastest pieces, and in 1821 only three and a half millions. Metals have risen from 365,000 tabl to 13,000,000 facls.

importance,"

»,” writes Dr. C." Hartridge, 29,000,000 taris in 1913 to 60,000,000 soya bean and its products which bare large windows, and offers ecating for 995 taels in 1921,

appeared so miraculously in recent years diners at restaurant tables arranged for 3.0.8., Ophthalmic Surgeon and Road construction is procealing inped from 48,000,000 tsels in 1813 to panelling of this satoon is finished in Westminster Boipital, they must be two, four, eight or ten persons. The Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery to the nearly every province, and where a few 84,000,000 tasia in 1921. years ago there was not, outside the

At Washington, the Powers concerned Wedgewood blue with mouldings picked Treaty ports, ten miles suitable for entered into a salema compact to res out in white, and is supplemented by s accurately centred in frames that ars motors, there will soon be thousands of post the independence of China, which fries with ornament etched in white light, strong and it well, otherwise the in effect means that all have combined to Large fluted mahogany columns mounted good effect of the most carefully chosen miles. A tremendous demand for motor check the aggressive designs of one.

with Corinthian capitals, which are correction may be entirely frustrated by vehicles is inevitable, and the Americans Power which was seeking to establisli surbished in old sold, uphold a £ne vil-a faulty position of the glasses, or even are getting all the business so far.""

In exports, China has made ocrre door and equal opportunity are now mouldings and comings The chairs of fresh source of eye-strain may be intro.

monopoly of opportunity. The opening finished in fab white with enriched sponding advances. The figure for 1921 guaranteed, and British trade has a fair polished mahogany are upholstered in duced". The Hongkong* Optical" "Co., is. 601,000,000 taels (say. £118,000,000) field, with the advantage of comicatioris moroccan leather Aft on the same dek mccessors to Clark & Co., Betracting and showing that production of row and manufactured material suitable

far more firmly established than those is the second dining ashoon where 180 Manufacturing Opticians, located in 53, persons may dine at a sitting. Here the foreign consumption is very large Bilk, of any other Power.. raw and manufactured, was 103,000,000 enterprise of British traders to make and decorated with mouldings, the whole ment and instrument to adjust your

It depends upon the intelligence and ceilings and beams are encased with wood Queen's Road Central, have the equip "(Continued at foot of next column.). good in this El Dorado of the Far East. being painted in flas white; the panel-spectacle to a nicety,-ADIT.

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