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HOW RUSSIAN SHIPS ARE WORKED.

CREW CONFER WITH CAPTAIN.

STRANGE SIGHTS ON BOARD A SOVIET MERCHANT SHIP.

It is a quer experience to step on to a boat at London Bridge in the knowledge that you will step off it at Leningrad. Qucerer still (writes Mr. C."E. M. Joad, a well- known English writer), if you pre- sent neither ticket or passport (the captain is said to have our passports. in his keeping), encounter no Customs officials and fill up no forms. This complete absence of the ordinary paraphernalia of for-

chief characteristic of life on ‘a Soviet ship.

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passengers meet in the same dining room to eat the same food, which is the same as that served to the crew and the officers.

The crew have a common room called Lenin's corner. Here are a statue of Lenin, pictures of the revolutionary leaders, maps and anti-religious resters.

"

Sir Roger de Coverley At night there is singing and

books to start a library; a rest hour should be set aside every. day for the study of English, and

so on.

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How, one is tempted to wonder, does the taking and making of all these decisions and suggestions by the ship's crew affect the position of the officers, and particularly the authority of the captain The ques-

arise in many forms in Soviet tion is one that must, L. imagine, Russia. It raises the whole ques- GRAND HOTEL DES WAGONS,

tion of direct control, and it is not easy to answer.

eign travel strikes a note of in-dancing on deck by penger, formality, which is, perhaps, the officers and crew. And so it was that I witnessed the remarkable spectacle of an English lady tench- ing a dozen young Russian Com-

The position, however, so far as munist seamen how to dance Sir can ascertain it, appears to be. Roger de Coverley, on moonlits follows:-A ship's committee of deck in the middle of the Baltic. to

half a dozen personsvis elected for the strains of a mandolin, a guitar necessarily, it includes one or more. each voyage; probably, but not and half a dozen spoons-a sighti to make Addison's good old knight turn in bis grave.

Here are no waiters, stewards, or obsequious attendants; there is nobody to whom to give orders, and as a consequence there is nobody to tip. One fetches one's shaving water from the kitchen and helps oneself to soup from an enormous tureen on the central table in the dining-room.

6.

Certainly there is, a bell in one's cabin and one's bed is made for one in the morning, but the bell is unanswered and the bed-making is a concession the desirability of which has, I poderstand, been dis- cussed by the crew Soviet. Yot the boat is comfortable, the food good and well cooked, and the cabins reasonably well appointed.

A Young Crew.

officers.

In the Men's Favour, During the few days voyage to The suggestions and decisions Leningrad there were two meetings, made at the meeting of the crow fairly, typical, I imagine, of meet-Soviet fall into two categories. Ings taking place all over Russia Those which involve questions, of | to-day. The first was confined to general policy, and particularly the members of the Communist Party expenditure of money, are forward- It consisted mainly of a longish ed to the offices of the State" Ship- lecture by one of the crew on the ping Trust in Leningrad; those progress of the famous Five-Year which relate merely to the running. Plan, with particular reference to of this particular ship are dealt the shipping industry. The plan in with by the ship's committee. The most particulars is in advance of committee is also the repository of ita programme, but shipping ap grievances and complaints. parently lags behind. How, then,

The crew constitute one's first could the crew of this particular

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refer the matter to a meeting of the acttles them in conjunction with him. Usually, I am told, there is The meeting took place on deck po dificulty; but, when the captain is unable to agree; his decision, ia two days afterwards. After the

the captain, are no older, while election of a chairman and secres/ final for the voyage. The whole

ping and conduct of the ship was Uncussed with refreshing candour.

the young women who make our beds and bring the food to table aretary the whole matter of the run- about eighteen. It was only after I had been on board for three days that I discovered that the third mate, whom I took to be a boy of about seventeer, was a woman of twenty-seven.

Crew Maintain Discipline. A member of the crew had come on board drunk. His punishment was discussed and settled by a vote The crew have separate quarters, of the meeting. A better look-out although they wander freely about ought to he kept at the maschend; the passengers' saloons. Two men all members of the crew should be normally share a cabin, which is in interested in the working of the all essentials & replica of that oc engines and the higher duties of cupied by first-class passengers. In should know about everything. A navigation; everybody, in fact, this respect they are better off than ship's newspaper abould be started, the second-class passengers, who to be written entirely by members sleep four to a cabin. This, so far of the crew; a ship's band trained: as I can see, is the only distinction the shipping company (a State! of class in the ship: for all the trust) should be approached for

matter is, however, subsequently raised at the end of the voyage at headquarters; the men's caso ís fully stated, and a decision. taken, usually, I am told, in the men's favour.

For the rest, the captain and mates when off duty behave and are reckoned as members of the crew; there is no appearance of authority and little of respect. But there is,

understand, a certain financial inequality; the men get paid £8 allowance; the salary of the officers a month, with an additional £4 food

I was unable to ascertain, but I am told that the captain receives about £30 monthly

There is doubt, I think, that the crew enjoy themselves.

Diary of Coming Events.

Today.

(September 23.)

Jewish New Year (5691),' Queen's Theatre: They Learned About Women,'!

"Desi

tive.

World. Theatre: Potion (Chinese film).

Star Theatre" Red Mill” Central Theatre: Rio Rita." Hong Kong, Canton"& Macao Steamboat Co Extraordinary gen- eral meeting, Queen's Building, 11

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European Mail:-Outward: Europe and Siberia (Prel Jackson) 6.30 am Europe vit Biberia (Hikawa Maru) 6 pm

Tides: High, 9.37 d.m, and 10.12 p.m.; Low, 3.28 a.m. and 4.14 p.m."

Wednesday, (September 24.) Queen's Theatre They Learned About Womer."

World Theatre "Deceptive Potion" (Chinese film);

Star Theatre: Red Mill": Central Theatre: Rio Rita." Public Band Concert, Kowloon Football Club ground, 9.15 p.m.

Dinner Dance: Hong Kong Hotel 3.30 p.m.

Tides: High, 10,48 am, and 10.41

Central Theatre “ Bio Rita"

Annual Meeting, Lane Crawford's, Hong Kong Ladies' Hockey Club,

Blue Room, 5.15 p.m.

Lammert's Auction of Postage Stamps, Sales Roome, 5.15 pm

European Mail-Inward: Bürops vid Suez (Khyber).

-- Tides: High, 11.40 á.m. and 11.1i p.m. Low, 4.59 2.m. and 5.12 p.m.

Iriday, (September 20.)

Queen's Theatre: Paris"

Hot for

World Theatre: Flesh and the. Devil.".

Star Theatre: "Scarlet Letter," Central Theatre: "Rio Rita," Hong Kong 6t. Andrew's Society,

meeting, 11 .za. general F.m.; Low, 414 a... and 4,44 p. City Hall, 5.45pm-A

Fanling Hunt & Race Club, an- Dual meeting at Mesers Jardine, Matheson'a Boardroom, 5.30 p.m..

Football Kowloon Football Club, Possibles v. Probables, 6 pm.

Dinner Dancer Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 p..

Thursday. (September 25.);

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Dinner Dance: Peninsula Hotel,

Tides: High, 12.35 p.m. and 11.42 p.m.; Low, 5.48 sm. 6.37 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: They Learned About Women."

World Theatre: Flesh and the 8.30 pm Dovil

Star-Theatre: “Scarlet Letter:

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