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HONG KONG.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 28, 1929.

HONG KONG'S "LAME DUCK" AGAIN.

HARBOUR MASTER REPLIES TO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

MORE CRITICISMS OF THE KAU SING.

lows im

GENERAL SUTTON ON THE C.E.R.

MANCHURIA AND THE SOVIET.

IDEA BEHIND NANKING'S POLICY?

We have received from the Single and Twin Screws, Colonial Secretary's Office a copy (b.)-With regard to' (b), the General Frank Sutton, for many of the reply of the Harbour Master Chamber of Commerce based its years adviser to the late Marshui to the letter of the Secretary of case for a single screw on the per- Chang Tao Lis and directas of the the Chamber of Commerce, publish-formance of the Saint" class of | Mukden Arsenal, gives in a Home ed in the Hong Kong newspapersing, but I would point out that paper (the Daily Express) the on July 4 Inat. The letter is as fol-this class of tug was built by the Ad- following view of the nature and miralty during the war specially for causes of the Sino-Soviet dispute the purpose of being despatched to over the Chinese Eastern Rail sea to the assistance of ships which way:- had been torpedoed, and to tow them to the nearest convenient port, For such work there is no doubt whatever that a single screw tug is

of the anime horse power, since a more efficient than a twin-screw tug

I wish to point out in the first place that my remarks in Sessional Paper No. 2 of 1929 were not intend ed as a complete general criticism of the Kao Sing. Such criticisms as were offered were intended mere ly to supplement the answers to the questions asked by Sir Henry Pollock in regard to the feasibility and cost of substituting motor single screw has a better hold on engines for the present engines of the water and so gives better towing the Kau Sing.

"

The Chinese Eastern Railway is likely to cause the next war.

"Russia's ultimatumo to Northern China, which expired yest rday, is the final step to a climax which inay well plunge the East once more into a war of as great magni. tude and far-reaching consequences as the Russo-Japanese war.

As one who acted for five years as Chief Adviser to the late Marshal Chang Tso Lin, the War Lord who made Manchuria what it is to-day, I was able to study intimately and at first hand the politics and in- trigues which have led up to the present critical state of affairs.

The focal point of the present troubles is the Chinese Eastern Railway, a main line track run- ning from Vladivostok across the great Manchurian plains to Man- chouli, on the Russo-Chinese border, where it connects with the Trans-

power. Raising Steam

"Saint " On the arrival of a 2-In summarising what is desclass tug at the place where a chip eribed to be my case the Chamber had been disabled, it did not matter of Commerce states that I intended whether she; took five minutes or to convey that "the boiler installa-half an hour to pass a tow to the tion is unsuitable because too long damaged ship, as the loss of time a time is taken in getting up incurred thereby was not of para- steam" what I actually said was: mount importance. Such manoeuvres "From cold boilers it takes 12 hours were undertaken in all wentbers and to raise steam, and even with fires in the open sen, but the conditions banked in one boiler it is not con- in the Atlantic or English Channel sidered safe to send her outside cannot be compared to picking up harbour limits until such time as A tow in typhoon weather in the steam has been raised in the second corfined waters of Hong Kong Har-Siberian Railway and so links up. the Enst with Moscow, Leningrad boiler." I did not intend to convey bout.

and Berlin. that for the purpose for which the Kau Sing was specially designed, that is, to render assistance to ship ping during the typhoon weather, the boiler installation was consider ed unsuitable, since ample warning is normally received of the approach of typhoons, and also, during the typhoon season, from June 15 till October 15 approximately the Kau Sing is always kept under a steam pressure of 10 pounds with banked fres..

The Saint" class had plenty of room in which to maneuvre and was not bound by considerations of time, whereas the Kau Sing is expected to pick up a tow with the least possible delay. Time in her case is of paramount importance, for should there be any delay at all,. the ship she is endeavouring to rescue may drift ashore. She has furthermore to manœuvre in a con fined space of water and amongst other ships. Under these conditions the tug required to do the work must be the handiest possible; and the more facilities she possesses for turning sharply on her heel, such as would be given by the putting of one engine full ahead and the other engine full astern in a twin-screw vessel, the more efficient she be comes. A good example of this may be seen any day in Colombo Har bour where the two tugs Samson and Goliath, each of which is twin- screw and of the same horsepower na the Kau Sing. handle ships in the quickest manner possible in all conditions of weather,

Varied History,

It is the main route for all fast mail and passenger services and as such is of incalculable commercial and strategic value.

It runs for about a thousand miles through Chinese territory and this is the stretch which is causing

the trouble,

Originally the railway was built by a Russian syndicate formed in 1902 and aided by French capital, but since then it has passed through a series of the financial vicissitudes to which railways in such coun- tries are usually subject.

The Russian Government, by virtue of advances, obtained a cer- tain measure of "control over the shares of the company, and after the Russo-Japanese war the southern part of the railway was handed over to the Japanese by the Russian Government, The shareholders were compensated for the proportion of track lost.

Bolsheviks on the Scène,

If, on the other hand, the Kau Sing is expected to be able to raise steam quickly, and go out to the assistance of shipping in distress outside the harbour when she is not under banked fres, ns in the case of the Hain Wah, then the present boiler installation must be consider ed unsatisfactory. This would apply only during the period from October 15 till June 15 when the" Kas Sing is not under banked fires. Thus in the recent ease of the grounding of the s.. Lok Sun, the Kau Sing was under banked fires, it being the typhoon season, and she was there- fore able to get under way at short notice and to be the first to arrive

Tug-Master's Duties,

In 1917 the Bolsheviks came ac- to the assistance of the Lok Sun.

(c.)-With regard to (c) it may be tively on the scene and the Chinese.. In short what I intended to convey conceded that the duties of a tug Government repudiated Russian was that for purely rescue work in master are highly specialized, bat control over the railway. From the harbour during typhoons, for it does not follow that a first-class that day the directors' meetings which purpose the tug was primarily tug-master, accustomed to handling base been held in Peping instead built, the boiler installation is satis-ships at ports such as London, of in Leningrad. An international factory, but if the Kau Sing is also Liverpool, or on the Clyde would technical board took over control to be required at any time to under-be an efficient tug-master in Hong in 1912 with General Stevens, an take the work of an emergency life-Kong Harbour during a typhoon. American, A: chairman. This boat, her boiler installation is not Should a special tug-master be im board advanced the railway several satisfactory.

ported for duties in the Kau Sing, million dollars to keep it going. he would be employed on this

In 1020 provisional agreement special work perhaps four days dur was signed "between the share 3-Again, in its summary of what the year under typhoon conditions. holders, mainly represented by the is, conceived to be my case, the and would obtain the same amount | Russo-Asiatic Bank, and the Chin- Chamber of Commerce states that of experience of handling the tugese Government, by the terms of I take the position that, as it would as does the Boarding Officer at pre-which the Chinese Government took be uneconomical to convert the Kousent detailed as master, and” he Sing from her present steam power would be of practically no use to ta Diesel motor power, that I re- the Harbour Department outside commend selling her and building these special duties. It is obvious a new tug with twin screws. This thint this would be an exceedingly statement of my position is mislead-uneconomical arrangement. ing. My recommendation was in The present practice is to detail no-wise based on the nature of the the junior Boarding Officers for work Kau Sing's engines, but entirely on in the Kau Sing, and to give them her, unhandiness by having but & as much experience as possible of single screw, and what I said was: handling the tug by remling them "us this, tug, fitted with only a out in charge when the tug goes single screw, "is very difficulty to

out for light-house, reliefs and such manage in a typhoon.

I am duties. These officers have proved unable to recommend a further ex- their efficiency, and I am of opinion penditure of $355,000 on her, that that if the Kau Sing had been con- is, for converting her engines to atructed as a twin-screw craft there motor engines.

would be no possibility of delay in assisting ships in typhoon weather with these officers in command.

Misleading Statement.

Where the Kau Sing Falls.

Three Points at Issue/ 4.-The Chamber of Commerce in its letter indicated as the three points at issue the following:-

6. In conclusion-I would reiterate (a) Diesel or steam power... my opinion that for the purpose for (b) Twin or single screw.

which the ** Saint class of tugs (e) The appropriate qualifications was used during the war the Kau

of the navigating officer.

Sing is a most excellent and sea- (a.)--With regard to (a), I may worthy craft, and would be extreme. simply deny that this is a point only efficient for deepsea townge, for which I join issue with the Chamber example, on a tow trip from Hong of Commerce; in fact, I endorse Kong to Singapore, but that for every statement in the Chamber's work in confined waters with no letter in this respect, and am my room to maneuvre and with the sell quite opposed to the fitting of saving of time as the prime essential, Diesel or any other type of motor she is unsatisfactory owing to her engines to a tug of this type. single screw.

THE PEAK SCHOOL. D

RESULTS OF ROYAL DRAWING SOCIETY EXAMINATIONS..

At an examination in drawing held under the auspices of the Royal Drawing Society (London), the following pupils attending the Peak School were successful-

Preparatory Division. Honours Certificate:-Margaret. I. Young.

1. Pass Certificate:-Kenneth Colin Morrison, Dorothy Margery. Simp son, Charles Donald Wallace, Ho ward G. Scott, Laurie Charlotte Sanger.

Honours

Division I."

Certificate Phyllis Evelyn Morrison, Elsie Audrey New- house, Marshall D. Draper.

Division II

Pass Certificate:-Marguerite E. Draper.

over control until 1924.

In that year China recognised the Soviet and the two Governments took over the railway jointly with- out giving the shareholders any compensation. From then till now it has been run jointly by the two Governments. The Russian Gov. ernment agreed to compensate the shareholders, but nothing has been done.

Now we come to the main point, which is that the Russians obtained control of a railway in China with special privileges without giving the Chinese reciprocal privileges. This is contrary to the provisions of the Washington Conference and has seriously affected all foreign interests trading in North Man- churia.

Oil and

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Naturally, this state of affairs CORRESPONDENCE. has been both irritating and humi- liating for the Munchurians. My own opinion is that the Southern Chinese (who have no great love for AIR MAIL FROM ENGLAND. the North, and have viewed with some consternation the strengthen- ing and reorganisation of the To THE EDITOR OF THE "HONG KONG Manchurian armies) have seized

DAILY. PIESS."] this opportunity to egg on the Nor theners to cause a rupture with the Russians, who, if it came to blows, would quickly crush the Manchurian armies.

Sin, What is wrong with the Air Mail Service 1

Japan would never allow Russin Much has appeared in the Press permanently to occupy Manchuria, i from time to time about the London- but, even so, the results of u Russo-Manchurian war would have Vladivostock and London-Calcutta such far-reaching effects on British air services, and the probable saving All the officials and workmen on trade and foreign relations that it the railway are either Russian or must be avoided as far as is human. of time in the receipt of lettera sent Chinese another violation of the ly possible.

by either of these routes to Hong principle of equal opportunity. All I believe that the best way out Kong.

"White" and educated Russians would be for a Board of Interna have been displaced by Communists.tional Control, working in conjune A letter was posted to me in The result is that the railway has tion with the Chinese Government, London on July 28, marked and become a nest of Communist propa to take over the direction of the ganda, organised like clockwork from Moscow, and with an unli- mited capacity for evil. supposedly for the joint benefit of The funds are held by Russia,

It would be hailed with delight by Surely, if the Sino-Russian crisis the Chinese interests, but actuallyal Chinese merchants and for has brought about a suspension of some £2,000,000 a year, has been signers interested in this vitally the normal across-Europe air ser- used as the main subsidy for the important railway, and it would, sprend of Bolshevism through at the same time, be perfectly legal vice, the postal authorities in because it would restore the flouted London would be aware of the rights of the international share-

fact 1 holders.

China.

Record of Facts,

Thean are fact I do not quote them in order to bolster up any point of view or to colour any argue ment. I have no further personal interest in Chinese affairs. I mere- ly give the facts as they exist.

(Continued on next Column.)..

railway, and thus put all bickering stamped expressly "By Air Mail. and intrigue into the back ground, vid Suez or Siberia." I reveived it and give equal trading opportunion August 26, ties to all countries affected.

The Chinese merchants, as I have

In this case, if the letter was sont, said, would welcome this, because what the Calcutta or Karachi routes, at present the trade of one of the whero is the much-bonated saving in richest territories in the East is mishandled.

time Yours, etc., handicapped, and

ALBION. atrophied by graft, 'intrigue,, and propaganda.

Hong Kong, August 97.