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NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES.

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All Claims must be presented within fifteen days of the vessel's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognized.

No Claims wil be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and il Goods

remaining undelivered after the 7th Auguh 1925, will be subject to Rent

THE HONGKÖNG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JULY 31ST, 1916

BRITISH NAVAL DOCKYARDS.

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THE AUDITOR-GENERAL'S·

REPORT.

SHIPBUILDING PROGRAMME.

NAVAL PRIZE,

GIFTS TO DOMINIONS AND INDIA.

DISPOSAL OF VESSELS,

A British Treasury Minute, dated June lat, in regard to gifts of Naval Prize

The report of the Comptroller and

to the Governments of the Commonwealth Auditor-General upon the dockyard ex-of Australia, the Union of South Africa, pense and manufacturing accounts for the year ended March 31st, 1925, is issued as a Blue-book (14k net). The Comptroller

and India (Cmd. 2653) has been issued :-- It is pointed out that Naval Prize is divided into Droits of Admiralty and

Droits of the Crown, broadly equivalent to prize captured in harbour and at ses respectively, the Arat accruing to the Exchequer and the second paid to the among the officers and men of the Fleets Naval Prize Fund for distribution

(including the Dominione).

"JAPANESE PRINCE" having strived from the above Port on 29th July, 1926, Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- their risk into the Godowns of the Hong-notes that the programme of shipbuildias formed that their Goods aro being landed at kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown appended to the Navy Estimates for Company and expense.

Limited, Kowlook, and stored at 1994-95 provided for an expenditure of All broken, chafed and damaged Goods £13,058,019 in direct charges and are to be left in the Godown, where they £4,453,435 in establishment and incidental will be examined on Friday, August 6th, 1998, at 10 m

charges. Extra provision of £30,100 was made by a Supplementary Estimate of

Early in the war the question arose as February 20th, 1993. As no correspond

to the disposal of vessels adjudicated in Prize Court in a Dominion or India, ing revision was made of the shipbuild but it was left over for subsequent con- between expenditure and estimates can- Droits of the Crown was determined by ing programme, an exact comparison sideration. The position in regard to the class of prize coming within the not be established. Allowing for this the passage of the Naval Prize Act, 1918, Supplementary. Estimate, however, the and in 1921 the Dominioins and Indis aggregate expenditure on personnel, ment were ready to arrange for the re- were informed that his Majesty's Govern material, and contract work in the dock maining matters of prize in accordance yards

and other establishments with a acheme which permitted a choice £30,661 more than the estimated sum that the rights and liabilities arising of two courses. The first of these was The aggregate-expenditure for 1024-25 on from seizures in which the Naval Prize direct charges was £2,215,927. in excess Fund was not concerned should attach to of that for the previous year. Of the his Majesty's Government. The second labour, charges, 21.5 per cent. was ex was that the rights to prizes not ad- pended on new construction and 784 per judged to the Naval Prize Fund which ceht, on repairs, etc., as compared with were condemned in a Prize Court in a 20.02 per cent and 73.9 per cent. in the Dominion should be transferred to the programme estimate, and with 27.5 per Dominion or India. To the latter course sent. and 12.3 per cent. respectively in were attached conditions as to certain 1923-24. Thus the personnel of the dock-liabilities, expenses, and claims which yards was employed on repair work might arise in regard to prize proceed- during the year to a greater extent than ings, hire, earnings, or loss of ships. was anticipated.

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having arrived. Consignees of Cargo by her sid informed that all Goods are being landed their risk into the hazardous and/or extra hazardous Godowns of Holt's Wharf, whence Delivery may be obtained.

No Claims

will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain ing undelivered after 4th August, 1926, will be subject to Bent.

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The Government of New Zealand and Newfoundland replied to the effect that they were nos materially concerned, since no prize proceedings had taken place in these countries. Canada and South Africa elected for the first course, though the latter Dominion made a request later. that a concession of four prize ships. should be made. to her. Australia and Canade elected to adopt the second course, and it has been accordingly pro posed that an Order in Council abould be issued in their favour.

Dealing with the stock account, the Comptroller shows that £51,850 more was spent in reconditioning 284 gun mounting than the sum originally assigned for the probable cost. On inquiry, he was in All Claims against the Steamer must be pre-formed that, through lack of space, the serted to the Undersigned on or before 11th mountings were left in the open for the August, 1926, or they will not be recognized. or three years before. reconditioning, and All broken, chated and damaged Goods are were consequently in a very bad condi to be left in the Gedowns, where they will be tion, necessitating a great deal more work examined on any Tuesdays or Fridays, between being done than could be estimated by the hours of 10.45 s... and Noon, within the examining them without taking them to Free Htorage period of One Week.

pieces. The orders for reccnditioning were placed to relieve unemployment during the winter of 1924, and additional cost was incurred owing to the require ment of completing the work by March, 1323. Passing to detailed accounts of ships, extra expenditure on the cruisers Effingham and Frobisher was partly caused on machinery in connection with conversion for oil burning, and return into store of coal-fired boilers. A sum of £33,500 more for submarine X. was due The Minute is accompanied by schedules to unsuccessful trials and to modifica specifying the ships to be transferred to tions to machinery being found neces- Australia, India, and South Africa. aary." On the other hand, £161,484 less was spent upon the cruiser minelayer Adventure, progress being retarded owing to other more urgent require ments.

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ships according to values assessed early The estimated value of the Australian in the war was £511,100. The present value would be much lower. The pro ceeds of the cargo are £91,000. The appraised value of the Indian ships was £191,620. They have actually been sold for £112,385, and the proceeds of the cargo are about £10,000. The prize ships to be transferred to the Union of South Africa are valued at £25,000.

A WAR HERO." MAKES HIMSELF HAPPY.

THOUGH ARMS USELESS.

There were large sums unexpended upon the five cruisers of the Suffolk class (except the Kent), one reason being the "late placing of the order for 8in. tato mountings." The progress of the Cumber A Daily Express representative, dis- land, at Vickers, was delayed owing to covered in Richmond the perfect story a-wages-dispute-as-well. Work on the of the havoc of war and of the courage two destroyers of this programme (sauc- that turns the living hell of existence tioned during the Labour Ministry) was with a shattered 'body into something delayed partly by a new design being pleasant to smile upon. It is a simple submitted for the Amazon For the con- story at that. version of the Furious into an aircraft Mr. G. W. Richards was a printer. carrier £225,072 more than the estimated when the war began. He lived at sum was required, the work entailing Bethnal Green, and, as he said, “Thank much more expense than was anticipated, God, I wasn't married. and many modifications being found necessary as it proceeded.

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MISS CAVELL'S EXECUTION.

M. POINCARE'S STATEMENT.

In the course of a conversation with

He joined the 20th London Regiment. In 1817 he found himself on the Somme with his regiment, and, a bullet came along to wound him in the neck. The top) of his spinal cord was touched by the bullet. The use of his arms and legs! went for ever, and eventually, an invalid for life, Mr. Richards was brought to Richmond to the Star and Garter Hostel for wounded soldiers..

That was at the begining of 1918, be- a. representative of "Les Nouvellea Litter fore-the-new-building had been erected. res," M. Poincaré has thrown an inter- As he lay in bed, he found that he would esting sidelight in the circumstances sur- be able to summon his attendant if he rounding the death of Miss Cavell. He could only hold in his mouth a short said that Baron von der Lancken recently stick long enough to push the bell at sent him, but too

late to be in the side of his bed. cluded in his book, a protest against He asked, for the stick, and learned

passage in which he attributed to Baron how to grip it firmly between his teeth. von der Lancken the responsibility for A pencil was the next idea that came to Miss Cavell's death, as so many other him, and he managed to write his name authors had already done: Baron von and then to sketch decorative designs on der Lancken wrote that on the contrary pieces of paper. he had done all he could, to obtain a commutation of the sentence M. Poin some one provided him with a box of He used a fountain per next, and then caré admitted that he thought it strange paints and a brush or two. He took to that Baron von der Lancken had up sketching designs on paper lampshades to the present offered no protest against and other odd pieces of ornament, the assertions of a number of highly Painting the designs was the next step; authorised persons, including Mr. Brand selling the results of his work turned the Whitlock, United States Minister in hobby into profitable employment, and. Brussels during the war, and had waited when a one-day show of the work of the antil now to justify himself. But as men at the hostel was held, his exhibits' Baron von der Lancken in his letter de were the talk of the visitors. dlazed that a neutral diplomat, who was accredited to Brassels at that time, had

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Full knowledge of the role he played, His bed is now high up on the third and had even later informed M. Briand floor of the magnificent new building." of it, M. Poincaré, taking this reference From the window at his side, to which to indicate the Marquis de Villalobar, he is often turned, there is the wonderful Spanish Ambassador to Belgium, adview of the Thames Valley for which the dressed himself to him.

King and Queen stopped their motor-car M. Poincaré stated that be had now on Richmond Hill recently, the b received from the Marquis de Villalobar! There are gadgets arranged all round, a very complete and moving account of his head. The old idea of ringing the the terrible tragedy of October, 1915, bell with a stick has long been discarded "and I owe it to truth," he added, "to A contrivance made solely of a clothes- say that this note is of a mature to re- peg and two wires has taken its place. Af habilitate Barop von der Lanaken. He tray stands always in front of him on an had urged General Sauberzweig not to extending arm, and always carries an have Miss Cavell executed, but the ash tray, he was for man tallet p General refused to listen to him. The About the only thing I can't do," he LORD only fault which Baron von der Lancken said to me to-day with one of the plea made was not to have dared to telephone sautest smiles in all the world, “4 is shavé to the Kaiser, who was at Spz, and who, myself.”

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DUNRAVEN'S LAST VOYAGE

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As down was breaking the steam yacht Spnea slipped out of Southampton Water on its voyage to Ireland with the remains on board of its owner, the late Lord Dan raven, the famous. yatchaman, who died at the age of 85. He is to be buried at Adare, County Limerick

it appears, regretted the execution of the He stopped a moment while I placed death sentence, of which no one had in a cigarette in his mouth and struck formed him. The recital which I have match. received from the Marquis de Villalebar. Also I can't shake hands with you," is very impressive and full of detail. It he added, "But what does it matter * OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE POLICY has convinced me personally that Baron I'm only forty now, and this may go on

von der Lancken has been caluminated." for years, though they call me Old Joe.None of the late Earl's relatives was on

Deuter.

But I'm happy.

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cost £130,000, and was built at Southamp- LONDON SELLING

ton in 1922,

bers of the crew travelled with the cofin The captain, two officers and eight mem-

which was brought down from London by motor bearse and placed on a raised plat form on the yacht's deck

remains were placed on hoard. As the There was an affecting scene when the

attendants, who accompanied the cofin from London carried it reverently across the little gangway, the captain and crew stiffly to attention and then raised their who were lined up on the deck, stood. hands to the salate.

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