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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1937.

BRITISH SHIPPING MENACED

'Daily Mail'

Inquiry Reveals Need

Need of 10-Years Subsidy

By MONTAGUE SMITH

IN this article are summarised the results of the London Daily Mail inquiry into the state of British shipping conducted at all the principal ports of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Without enough British ships to bring us food the lives of every one of us in the Kingdom would be forfeit in another war. Foreign ships would not serve us in the hour of our peril.

The broad facts of the case should by now be well known. Leaders of public opinion and competent ship-| owners have plainly stated them.

Viscount Rothermere, in despatches to The Daily Mail during his recent world tour and in an exclusive interview with the Hongkong Telegraph, drew attention to the imminent entire dis appearance of British liner traffic from the Pacific routes,

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The Hon. Alexander Shaw, to me that the Government should

small subsidy chairman of the P. & O. Com-agree to give a

owners who may in the future be pany, at the annual meeting of compelled to lay up their ships owing that compainy recently stated to had tende.

This, he urged, would stop the sale

OPENING OF SHANGHAI HOSPITAL

The new City Hospital of the Municipality of Greater Bhang hal, which will be oficially opened during the latter part of March, is shown above as it now stands in a state of completion. The in- stallation of certain equipment is all that remains to be done before the building will be thrown open for the use of the Municipality. Mir. Dayu Doon was the architect for the bullding, and has also drawn design for other structures which will be bullt when fature

demands make them a necessity.

Chaplin to Film In Russia?

CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S NEXT FILM MAY BE MADE,

IN SOVIET RUSSIA.

Charlie is expected to visit' Russia' next summer for the opening of "Kinograd," the film city that is being built on the coast of the Black Sea, and to make one of the first pictures produced in the Soviet Hollywood.

He has been in communication with Mr. Schumiatsky, General Director of Cinema Industries in the U.S.S.R, since June, 1935, when the Russian film chief visited Hollywood and entered into negotiations with-Chaplin.

M. Schumlatsky, accompanied by Friedrich Ermier, the Russian film

that the total of British shipping of superduous tonnage such us has has fallen by 2,000,000 tons since the war: that, whereas occurred in recent years during the director, und Vladimir Nielsen, director of the Moscow Kine-Technicum,

shimp, and maintain an adequate

before the war we owned half the mercantile marine for our time of was the first to see Chaplin's fim "Modern Times." world's tonnage, we ΠΟΥ own need. Jittle more than a quarter.

It was my duty in the inquiry just concluded Lo consult shipowners, slilpmasters, merthants. and port authorities to discover the reasons for this dangerous decline.

Certain unquestionable facts have emerged. British ships have been driven from the Pacific trade-North America to Australia and New Zealand-because of heavily subsidised United States competition.

Japanese Competition

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British ships will shortly lose the entire trame between Japanese and other Far Eastern ports and India and Africa, because of heavily subsidised Japanese competition.

Heavily subsidised Italian ships are threatening British trade in the Mediterranean and the Near East, and through the Suez Canal to the For East.

When further trade agreements Aro made with foreign countries, consideration should be 'given to the needs of British shipping.

In addition to Government assis-

tance, Belish therchants have it in their power to do much for our ships. As buyers of foreign produce they an insist that it be carried in British

vessels.

The increasing domination of our coastal trade by small Dutch vessels is a minor but important problem.

is estimated that British ships in this trade are now being replaced by these foreign rivals at the rale of 100

a year.

The Dutch boats, built with Gov- ernment assistance, are run usually. as family concerns at lower manning scales and cheaper labour costs than must by Jow the British owners observe.

Keeping Coastal Trade

The United Stales and France pro- The Atlantic passenger and goods hibit foreign vessels of any national- trame, a few years ago almost entirety from participating in their coastal ly in British hands, is increasingly trade.

OCEAN

PHONE

WOOING

IN VAIN

She WedRival

Prince,

He suggested certain alterations in the picture-and Chaplin, the un- approachable, accepted them. At the same time M. Schumfaisky asked Chaplin if he would make a film in Russla.

A battle with the Hays Office-the American film industry's own cen- sorship over "Modern Times" left Chaplin sour and embittered.

The Russian offer because more at- tractive.

TWO FILMS OWING

But Charlle still owed by contract two pictures to United Artists. His mysterious Production No. 6 has never been completed, and Produc- tion No. 7, recently announced, is a film of the British novel "Regency," by D. L. Murray.

He will, it is belloved, fuifl his contract with these two films, in which Paulette Goddard is to be the star.

Meanwhile Chaplin himself will New York, Jan. 15. be film-making in Russia.

The Soviet cinema trade in Holly- Leonore

wood has already made an oficial proposal by which

a complete com- New York department nicians would make aims in Moscow any of American artists and tech- same rule might be made applic-store executive-in propos-in a duplicate version.

being carried in subsidised United It has been suggested thai the States, French, and German ships,

which are now in a large majority

on these routes.

Trade from the Pacific

coast of

able here.

MISS

To this an objection' is urged in ing to whom Mr. George MOSCOW EXCITED

some official quarters that British

Charlie himself is keeping quiet

North America via the Panama Canal ships do a great deal of constal trade Kamen, European manager about his plans, and the Hays Offer is now almost entirely carried by in the Dutch East Indies, and that to

is said to be anxiously waiting for subsidised United States ships.

bar Dutch coasters here might of the Walt Disney Mickey Chaplin's own move before allowing Dependent on Foreign Ships result in harmful reciprocal action. Mouse Companies, spent publication of the story, which will

If this argument be sustained, It is

advertise the Soviet cinema at the More than half the olf (Petrol) suggested that other steps should be £130 in Transatlantic tele-expense of Hollywood. required by us is now tarwen taken to place Dutch ships worklog phone calls and cables-was

Moscow is already excited at the foreign, principally Norwegian.

prospect of the great comedian's tankers

married yesterday... .but visit, which would bring Russian Alm productions Into International not to Mr. Kamen.

repute, and have far-reaching effects upon the Soviet position in girlhood world's film trade.

Meat from the Argentine (River Plate) ports is now largely carried in Greek ships.

Russian and the Battle ports are! rapidly becoming entirely closed to British ahlps owing to foreign sub- aldies and restrictions, and three- quarters of all the timber bought by Great Britain from those places now travels in Russlan, Norwegian, and Swedish vessels.

Dutch Encroachments

The enormous quantity of dairy and agricultural produce bought by us from Denmark and Holland is largely confined to Danish and Dutch ships.

Small Dutch ships are increasingly monopolising our own coastal trade, and are now extending their business

the Canada-United to

Kingdom

trame.

In the first ten months of this year the arrivals and sailings of foreign verseis in our coasting trade amount et to 034,000 tons, compared with 420,000 tons for the same period of last year and 367,000 tons in 1934.

Our principal subsidiaing compell- tors are the United States, Japan,

Italy, and Germany.

British shipowners state that they

our coast ports on an equality of terms with our own.

Tashi Lama

Going to

Coronation

TASH

ASHI LAMA, Grand Old Man of Tibet, and temporal ruler of all Tibettans, who has been in exile in India from his native land for a long time, is going to London for the Coronation in May,

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Sho preferred her sweetheart, Mr. Meyer Katz, fellow employee In the store, and they are now on honeymoon in: Havana.

Mr. Kamen's vain long-distance courtshilp WEB onc of the me glamorous ever encountered in refl life.

He met Miss Prince, who lo aged 24, and who held a £2,000-a-year post with Messrs. R. H. Macey, Ltd., two years ago, when she was visiting Europe.

Just before Christmas he crossed from London in the Berengaria and describing the hectic preceding fort- night, sald: "I rang her up to advise

This will be the first official visit her about her contract and asked her of a person who is respected and Would you like a job with me, with worshipped by millions of Chinese a contract for life?" and Tibetians in their own home.

He is credited with super- human powers. There have been strange and mysterious stories woven round his name for more than half a century. It is believed that he will take

"To my surprise she sald "O.K."

"Our telephoning and cabling be- came so fast and furious that for economy I registered a telegraphic address for her Lenoradore, New

cannot afford to meet the competition with him twelve other Tibettan York." Even so, my bill for calls and

of these varied foreign subsidies and Lamas. advantages without Government es- sistance.

of

During the present year the British Government has guaranteed a maxi- mumi bubaldy of £2,000,000 for the encouragement tramp

steamer traffles, which has been valuable' in enabling the committee of shipowners administering the business to secure agreement as to freight rates with foreign owners and avoid under-cut- ting.

The Government now announces that this is to be extended for one year and is then to crid,

In the opinion of shipowners this

termination would' be fatal to

place British tramp shipping at the

British

:

cables came to £130.

Son Asks Academy

To Expel Father:

Ashamed Of Him

Moscow, Jan. 15.

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She Will

Marry

Arab Leader

A YEAR EG

the

Young Scots girl, Miss Elspeth Ritchie, of The Holmes, Bt. Borwells, Roxburgh, went for a hollday to the desert town of Amman.

There she met Peake Pasha, the officer commanding the Arab Legion and Director of Public Security in Transjordan.

They will be married some time this month.

Peake Panha served with Lawrence of Arabia in the Hed- Jax section of the Egyptian Ex- peditionary Force, and is himself something of a legendary figure.

AUSTRALIA SEEKS FAR EAST MARKETS 50,000 Cases In Next Two Years

A

pro-

USTRALIAN exporters are

paring to ship to Hongkong and the Far East a total of 50,090, cases of citrus fruit within the next two years

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Chinese merchants in Melbourne announce that they will open bran- ches In Shanghai, Hongkong, and Singapore soon as possible:

The

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· British Interests, and would ugain "Land of a Soviet clilzen," declared Professor. Vladimir Inatleff · at cases of Victorian oranges and lemons father's behaviour is unworthy of a member of the soudemy first experimental shipment of 500 mercy of rivals. They urge the a meeting of the Soviet Academy of Solence (o-day. "I urgently arrived at Manila last week, and nood of a long-sighted polley, and a demand his expulsion. Once I was proud to bear bis same, but now orders have already been received system of subsidies guaranteed for I am heartily ashamed of it."

*** there for another 1,000 casos, years.

The new Australlan trade push is The elder Ipallef and another equally famous Soviet chemist, believed to be a direct sequel to the the maintenance of

Nikolai Chichibarin, were expelled from the benderry.

shortage of citrus fruit supplies shipping as a whole, further Govern- ment assistance in the form of subal- Both men were given leave of absence to pursue research work throughout the Far East caused by dies, either of building or running abroad, and the charge against them was that they had taken up posts the American shipping strike. costs, is naked for, or else better with foreign firms and refused to return to Russlo.

Australia hopes to capture many of provision of

the markets, previously monopolized money for shipbuilding | O by Government guarantee at cheap petroleum Industry; their continued absence was therefore condemned

Their work was regarded as of great importance to the Soviet by United States exporters.

The former. Consul Gederal for as unpatriotic

Chino, in Australia, Dr. Chen, who at present resides Sydney," "will leave The expulsion motion was conducted by secret ballot, introduced for Chino early this month to "push" A director of the largest shipping i company in Great Britain suggested under the new Constitution. Seventy members did not vote.Exchange..sales of Australian citrus fruit.

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