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CUNARD MERCER
With arrangements for the merger of the Cunard and White Star lines practically complote, wO
may expect soon to learn that
work has been resumed on
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SAVE OUR SHIPS!
By Sir ABE BAILEY, Kt., K.C.MG.
The Very Idea!
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The Russian best-seller of the RITISH shipping is fighting] Or look at the Indian trade, the
historie prosorvo of the P. and O. | moment, we rend, is a two-
for its life.
belleye that only the Empire, The Italians have put on the Genon-volume "Ideological" novel called the acting as a single whole; can save Bombay route a new ship for "Energy," by Feador Vasillyich It. That is why I am urging an which the Government found most Gladkov, which deals with the great Cunarder now lying un-early Imperial Conference to con- of the money and for which it pays building of the hydro-electric finished on the Clyde. For the sider the ways and menns of the Suez Canal dues.
combino is not entirely. Inspired | instituting_n common Empire This vessel is boing largely Dnieprostrol dam. by common interests. The Cunard shipping policy and nothing else. patronised by British officers and It appears to be a heavy bore... desired Governmont assistance in This question has been brought Civil Servants In India for their like for that matter-those cole- the building of their new mammoth by the action of the South African voyage home, though thele passage brated Russian novels of the old Government in granting a subsidy money is provided for them by the ahip and the opportunity was of $150,000 a year to the Italian Government-that is to say by the rogimo about little dull suburban seized to obtain In return come lines with the idea of retaining British taxpayer.
towns full of dust, dogs, retired rationalisation of the shipping | and incrensing Its meat trade with BEFORE YOU DECIDE ON YOUR industry and the elimination of Italy.
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ECONOMIC POLICY.
Negotiations between the White |Star and Cunard were long drawn out. It was not a question of the amour propre of two great rivals -ench reluctant to sink its in- dividuality, although the arrange. ment for the preservation of both namca indicates that tradition was not entirely out of the minds of the directors. The real issue that had to be overcome concern ed polley. The White Star has al-
Hongkong Telegraph ways been a bellever in small
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1983,
ships, in the 20,000 ton category, the Cunard in the super-liner. In days of depression such as these the White Star probably had the better of the argument; most giant ships are running at a loss to-day. In normal times, however, it is essential that British shipping prestige be maintained. If Britain does not provide the big ships, however, luxuriously fitted and speedy the omaller craft, tra- vellers will simply be attracted to the German, French and Italian crack liners. Backed by the un-
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Before the war British ships carried about 52 per cent. of the world's seaborne trade.
British money is thus being used by British officials to support a heavily subsidised Italian ship against the vessels of one of the aldent and most famous of British shipping companies,
I have denounced that netion, and I mean to go on denouncing it as fatal to that co-operation be tween all the units in the British Commonwealth of nations which is essential to their prosperity, I have no doubt that the new pairingly-uslão-at-intervals and British shipping takes first place 60,000-tonnera, running direct to mutters; "My God! What people!" in our national, our international, New York, will attract to the The mumbling is interminable and and our Imperial services and Italian ports much of the Amer the philosophy like a sick hend- interests. The very existence of lean freight and passenger traffic the Empire depends more on that formerly came to
Great ache. shipping than on anything else. Britain and France.
The new school of Russian Will they pay? Will the motor-fiction seems brisker, but equally' driven Neptunia on the Trieste as bothering. South America route pay? Or her
Envelop all this in endless sister-ship Oceania?
Nobody seems to care whether gabble, and in an apotheosis of they do or not. These are not Lenin, with fireworks and haloes, Since 1914 auch countries as ships in the ordinary sense. They and you have the goods. Sweden, Holland, France, Spain, are strokes of State policy. They Denmark and Greece have doubled are items in the Mussolini pro-current Soviet novel, or play, is ao Incidentally the formula for the or very nearly doubled their sea-gramme for putting Italy on the going tonnage. Italy and Norway map. have more than doubled theirs. Japan shows a still greater in crease, and the United States has, on paper, a Mercantile Marine five times as great as before the war. Britain, on the other hand, has some 300,000 tons loss than in 1914.
than 40 per cent.
To-day they carry hardly more
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All the leading countries in the world have taken a hand in the mad game-ill except Great Bri taln. For the past seven years, since the death of the Trade Facilities Act, rio Governmental aid of any kind has been extended to British shipbuilding.
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simple that anybody can do it. Nutshell example:
SCENE: The new power-slation at Sorotschinek. Alozoy Ale. xeivick, a virtuous Young . Communist, working furiously and exhorting his comrades. One of these, Catherine, em• ' braces him auddenly, ALEXEY: Why, comrado?. CATHERINE (simply); I love you. ALEXEY: Constructivo Marxism has no room for that! (Hits her with a piston rod She falls. Enter an agent of the Opp.)
AGENT: Comrades, there is sabo- tage! A leg has been found in the machinery! (To Alexey) Yours? ALEXEY (Very pale): Yes, cont-
rade!
"Enter a Commissar, hastily. COMMISSAR: Comrades, the peasants have struck! There will be no harvest! We are. ruined! ALEXEY (in-t clarion voice): No, comrade! (Hops out, gathers in harvest, harangues peasants, raises volunteer fores of city, tram-inspectors and laundry- men to shame peasants, instals them on land, makes, 308 speeches on Marxism and the Five Year Plan, and hops back to Sorotschinsk, where Cathe- rine at once embraces him again.)
CATHERINE: I have told them! Your leg-it was a pure s¢- cident! I love you!
ALEXEY (stunning her with a spanner): The warriors of the Proletariat have no time for that!
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THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
the inter-Imperial carrying_trade. That hope they must now aban- Within the last few days Italian don. The foreigners are not go- vessels have been chartered to loading to give up subsidies. They are grain from Australia to Europe at going to increase them. Along totally uncommercial rates with present lines there is nothing which British owners cannot even ahead of British shipping but a pretend to compete.
continuous and cumulative process of attrition and decline. Another Italian ship not long; In two respects they may them--- ago completed a round voyage selves.be contributing to this pro- entirely within the British Empire. cess. A British vessel in 1892 Her tour of 19,000 mlios earned made the trip from England to her a gratuity of more than £1,109 Capetown in fourteen days. To- THE recent aensation caused by from the Italian Government, and day, forty-one years later, the
Lord Raglan, who stated that this enabled har to undercut same voyage takes seventeen days, many of the most revered and British ships at every British port That looks to me like "asking for ancient family trees are bogus, has relieved several people in she touched,
Hongkong. A certain talgan who now nearly a millionaire says. that Lord Raglan has doinitely proved the falseness of his own family tree, which traces his an cestry back to a grocers asalstant in Whitechapel in Stiff Neck, Arizona,
it."
On all oceans and on nearly all British owners, apparently, would routes British shipping has now to not have it otherwise. They hate meet the competition of heavily the whole policy of subsidies, and discriminations. subsidised foreign vessels. Those bounties, NADIR KHAN
vessels will never pay their way on Free access to an open freight mar.
economic baals. They were ket is their Ideal, an The tragic death of Nadir
built and are being operated at But that ideal la vanishing Shah, King of Afghanistan, is
the taxpayers' expense for the anke beneath their very, noses. Not as disturbing to New Delhi as
of "prestige" and to foster home only Italy, but America, Germany, it is to Kabul. Nadir Khan
Industries.
France, and Japan have plunged was a bulwark of stability on
into the subsidy business. "In India's most difficult frontier and
The subsidy is the submarine of every direction British shipping the events following his as finished hulk on the Clyde and dumped goods, disrupt the It is fighting a losing battle out of commerce. State-alder ships, like finds itself squeezed and undercut sassination will be watched with Government influence on the alde
resources against the keenest anxiety. His four years of completion, the Cunard People market and make ordinary com- its own
limitable funds and facilities of kingship were marked by in-seem to have gained the day, remercial operations unprofitable. |creasing friendship with Britain bably to the final benefit of the
Foreign nations are spending placed by State after State at the after an era of dispute, and in- shareholders of both concerns.
some £30.000,000 a year on sub-service of its competitors.
What is to be the end of it. ternally Afghanistan made rapid |
sidising the building or the run- ning of these "pirate" vessels. British owners hoped at the progress as he did not maka OPIUM LOOPHOLE
Meanwhile, our giant Cunardor World Economic Conference to per the mistake of Amanulla of try-
remains idle on the stocks and suade the other Governments fo ing to force his countrymen to
threatens to become the Waterloo give up subsidies altogether, to adopt new ideas by the mere of words, some of which have a
The importance of the meanings Bridge of the shipping world.. leave shipping and shipbuilders issue of sensational
The State-aided foreigner is alone, and to restore absolute edicts. Rather, he endeavoured to en-phasised by the result of the ap-ness into British shipping, not only under all dags in all ports.
variety of shades, is again em- cutting with deadly destructive equality of treatment. to all ships sure the internal peace of his pen of the Crown against Mr. on the main routes but also in kingdom. He was what every Butters' interpretation of the Afghan ruler, to be successful Opium Ordinance. The Crown must be, a man of strong char- endeavoured to stretch the acope acter. He returned-to-Afghan-f the word "occupier to menn istan in 1929 to save the householder or principal tenant, maladministration
but the Appeal Judges would have that fol- none of it and the whole object of lowed the seizure of supreme the recent amendments to the Or. power by the brigand chief who dinance is clearly defeated. There was responsible for Amanulla's is no doubt that it was the inten- downfall. Nadir Khan started tion of the Legislature to cover his campaign as the loyal hench-the situation which existed in the man of Amanulla, while having prosecution that came under re- view; equally there is no doubt no illusions about Amanulla's that the new sub-section was not unpopularity with the conserva-so constructed as to accomplish tive elements of a backward the intention. A loophole was left country which the late King had and of course the lawyers found so rashly attempted to modernise it. It merely shows the extremo The sugar growers of Mauritius "Again, the policy of selling old without taking into account the care essential in the employment are given a preference of some £4 but still senworthy ships to com- inevitable revolt of the mullahs. of words. Half Britain's mis- per ton in the United Kingdom petitors abroad, who will operate Nadir Khan held the position understandings with the United market. But their sugar is being them on lower wages, cheaper States, for instance, would not increasingly brought here by sub- food, and, smaller crews, seems of Commander-in-Chief of the have arisen but for slightly dif-sidised Italian ships..
(Continued on Page 10.) Afghan armies at the time when ferant, shades of meaning which Habibulla Khan
was some-are applied on opposite sides of what mysteriously murdered in the Atlantic to cortain worda. 1919. There were many at the time who accused him of be- ing directly responsible for. Habibulin's murder, and the troops In Jellalebad actually ar-
Comments by the Middle West rested him and kept him in on the war debt situation have re- vealed the seriousness of the word custody pending Amanulla's
interpretation difficulty on more decision about his fate, Amanulla than one occasion. Speeches by eventually decided to supersede British statesmen addressed pri Nadir Khan in his position as marily to the Middle West have Commander-in-Chief, and had misfired because frank explana- him removed to Khoat. When, tions of transfer problems have a month or two later, Amantilla been read as warnings of repudia- foolishly decided upon war with tion. It might eventually come to Indin, he could not do without that; though the time is not yet the services of his tried genoral. United States and Britain
by a long way; and both the
This wor was a disastrous one undoubtedly strain every effort for Afghanistan, and Nadir to avert auch a possibility. Cer Khan, was the only Afghan taln it is that Britain. will never leader who displayed any enter-resume payments on the old scale: prise.. Up to this time Nadir not because she is unwilling to Khan had been anything but meet her obligations, but because adcha resumption would bo es- friendly towards Britain. With sentially destructive of financial most of his fellow-countrymen, stability in both countries. The ho entertained a strong suspicion trouble is to get the bulk of the of the Government of India's American people to appreciate the frontier policy, and during the technical side of the problem. Great War he was generally They have been told so long that credited with having distinct revision or cancellation would mean settling the burden upon the leanings towarda an open American taxpayer that they al alliance with. Germany and most regard the debts ng owing to Turkey. His experiences, how the community at large. And to over, in the Afghan War of 1910, attempt to explain to an Iow taught him considerable re farmer the difference between the govern- British arms, and his internal payments of n
WAR DEBTS
will
$29.50 apect for visit to Europe quite ment, on armaments, for instance,
cured him of his anti-British and external. payments, would bo tendencies. His death will be as futile as suggesting a close sen- son for road-trenching in Hong-. deeply deplored.
Icong.
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MUG'S DISEASE
The eminent pathologist Profes sor Goof has segregated yet' an- other germ. It is, responsible, he says, for the virulent Benedictitis or Purl-and-Plain Discaso, and generally for the group of afflic tions which are classed under the heading Mug's Discaso.
The onset invariably coineldes with the finishing of a row of knit- ting by the victim's wife. There fs no warning, as a rule, Simply a staccato "Count that!" The dia. esse has been known to last 204. stitches (in the case of X.0.8. jumpere). Should the patient be absorbed in the interport cricket, news at the moment he le attacked, extremo irritability is likely to be present. Eye-strain is a concemi. tant, and there is often a tempor nry loss of memory.
The futility of resisting should bo stressed. This disonso must be. allowed to run the course.
Closely allied to it is the dreaded Sfein-Holder'a ⠀⠀⠀ ̈ Diannao. "Chlof aymptoms are a dull, glassy look, indicative of morbidity, and the pocullar position of the hands, which are held out rigidly about three feat apart during the at- tack. The patient often complains of a pain in the neck,
-Should complications arise, it is advisabló to consult aakain. specialiat
These disonses assume epidemic proportions during the winter months. Professor Goof, expecta no abatement in the winter?
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