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THE

HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JANUARY ́ ́ 29," 1937,

BRITISH SHIPPING MENACED

ROUTES

'Daily Mail' Inquiry Reveals 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

OPENING OF SHANGHAI HOSPITAL

The new City Hospital of the Municipality of Greater Shang- hal, which will be officially 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 bulldfox will be thrown open for the use of the Manielsslily. Bir. Dayn Doon was the architect for the building and has also drawn designs for other structures which will be built when fature

demanda mako them a necessity,

Chaplin to Film In Russia?

during his recent world tour and in an exclusive interview with the CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S NEXT FILM MAY BE MADE

Hongkong Telegraph, drew attention to the imminent entire dis- appearance of British liner traffle from the Pacific routes.

The Hon. Alexander Shaw, to me that the Government should small subsidy to chairman of the P. & 0. Com-agree to give a pany, at the annual meeting of owners who may in the future be compelled to lay up their ships owing that compainy recently stated to bad trade. that the total of British shipping has fallen by 2,000,000

tons

o!

IN SOVIET RUSSIA

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

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

since the war; that, whereas occurred in recent years during the director, and Vladimir Nielsen, director of the Moscow Kine-Techricum,

This, he urged, would stop the sale superfluous tonnage such as has

slump, and maintain an adequate before the war we owned half the mercantile marine for our time of world's tonnage, we

Own❘nced. little more than a quarter.

Now

It was my duly In the inquiry just concluded to consult shipowners. shipmasters, merchants, and port authorities to discover the reasons for this dangerous decline.

Certain unquestionable faels have emerged.

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

Japanese Competition -

British ships will shortly lose the entire trame between Japanese and other

Far Eastern porls and India and Africa because of heavily subslätsed Japanese competition.

Heavily subsidised Italian ships are

the threatening British trade in Mediterranean and the Near East, and through the Suez Canal to the Far East,

The

When further trade agreements) are made with foreign countries, consideration should be given to the needs of British shipping. In addition to Government, asais- tance, British merchants have it in their power to do much for our ships, As buyers of foreign produce they can insist that it be carried in British vessels,

The increasing domination of our coastal trade by small Dutch vessels is a minor but impertant problem. It is estimated that British ships in this trade are now being replaced by these foreign rivals at the rate o

100 year.

The Dutch boots, built with- Gov- ernment assistance, are run usually na family concerns at lower manning scales and cheaper Inbour costs than the British owners must by lawy observe. Keeping Coastal Trade

The United States and France pro- Atlantic passenger and goodshibit foreign vessels of any nationall- traffe, a few years ago almost entirety from participating in their coastal ly in British hands, is increasingly trade being

carried in subsidised United States, French, and German ships, which are now in a large majority

these routes.

Trade from the Pacific coast of is now almost entirely carried by North America via the Panama Canal subsidised United States ships. Dependent on Foreign Ships

More than half the oil (petrol) required by us is now carried in foreign principally Norwegian, tankers.

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

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Russian and the Baltic ports are rapidly becoming entirely closed to British ships owing to foreign sub- sidies and restrictions, and quarters of all the timber bought, by Great Britain from those places nowy travels in Russian, 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.

same rule might be made applle-, able here.

some official quarters that Brit|sh|

M. Schumiatsky, accompanied by Friedrich Ermler, the Russiari Alm was the first to see Chaplin's film "Modern Times,"

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She WedRival

New York, Jan, 15.

Prince,

MISS Leonore

He suggested certain alterations in the pleture-and Chaplin, the un- approachable, accepted them. At the same time M. Schümintsky asked Chopin he would make a film in Russia

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

The Russian offer became 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, la n film of the British novel "Regency," by D. L. Murray.

He will. It is believed, fulfi his contract with these two Rims, in which Paulette, Goddard is to be the star

Meanwhile Chaplin himself will be Alm-making in Russia.

The Soviet cinema trade in Holly- wood has already made an official

proposal by which a complete com

niclaris would make flims in Moscow

It has been suggested that the New York department any of American artists and tech-

store executive-in propo8-in a duplicate version. To this an objection is urged in ing to whom Mr. George MOSCOW EXCITED

Charlie, himself is keeping quiet in the Dutch East Indies, and that of the Walt Disney Mickey Chaplin's own move before allowing ships do a great deal of coastni trade Kamen, European manager about his plans, and the Hays Offlec is said to be anxiously waiting for bar Dutch coasters here might result in harmful reciprocal action. Mouse Companies, spent publication of the story, which will If this argument be sustained, it is suggested that ether steps should be £130 in Transatlantic tele-expense of Hollywood. our coast ports on an equality of phone calls and cables-was

to

taken to place Dutch ships working

terms with our own.

Tashi Lama

Going to

Coronation

Small Dutch ships are increasingly TASHI LAMA, Grand Old Man

monopolising our own coastal trade, and are now extending their business

the Canada-United trame.

to

Kingdom

In the first ten months of this year the arrivals and sailings of foreign vessels in our coasting trade amount- ed to 834,000 tons, compared with

428,000 tons for the same period of last year and 367,000 tons in 1934.

Our principal subsidising competi- tors are the United States, Japan, Italy, and Germany.

British shipowners state that they

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.

This will be the first official visit of a person who is respected and worshipped by millions of Chinese

and Tibettans-in their own home.

He is credited with super- human powern. There have been strange and mysterious storics Woven round his name for more than half a century,

It is believed that be will

toke

married yesterday.

not to Mr. Kamen;

advertizo the Soviet cinema at the

Moscow is already excited at the prospect of

great comedian's the .but visit, which would bring Russian | fim productions into International [repute, and have for-reaching effects upon, the Soviet position in the

She preferred her girlhood world's film trade. sweetheart, Mr. Meyer Katz, a fellow employee in the store, and they are now on honeymoon in Havana.

Mr. Kamer'e vain long-distance courtship was one of the most glamorous ever encountered in real Bio.

He met Miss Prince, who is aged 24,

She Will

Marry

and who held a £2,000-a-year post Arab Leader

with Messrs. R. H. Maccy, 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, said: "I rang her up to advise her about her contract and asked her Would you like a job with me, with a contract. for life?

"To my surprise she said “O.K." "Our telephoning and cabling be- came so fast and furious that for jeconomy I registered a telegraphic address for her-Lenoradore, New

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

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

During the present year the British Government has guaranteed a maxi- mum subsidy of £2,000,000 for the encouragement of tramp. steamer traffics, which has been valuable in enabling the committee of shipowners administering the business to secure agreement as to freight rates with and avoid under-cut-

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

in the opinion of shipowners this termination would be fatal, to

Son

cobles came to £130.

Asks Academy

To Expel Father:

"Ashamed Of Him"

Moscow, Jan. 13, ́ ́

A

Scots

YEAR so a young girl Bliss Elspeth Blichle, of The Holmes. St. Boswells. Roxburgh, went for a holiday

to the deseri town of Ammam.

There she met. Penke --Pasha, the officer commanding the Arab Legion and Director of Public Security In TransJordan.

They will be married Kome time this month.

Peake Pasha served with Lawrence of Arabia in the Hed- jas section of the Egyptian. Ex- pediifonary Furce, and ls himself something of a legendary figure.

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

USTRALIAN exporters are pre- paring to ship to Honkkeing and the. Far East a total of; 50,000 ganes of citrus fruit wiihfa the next two ¿years.

Chinese merchants in Melbourne announce that they will open bran ches in Shanghai, Hongkong, and |Singapore as soon as possible. The Victorlan oranges and lemons

Brie Bellan stamp shipping at the "M and of a Sovies citizen," declared Professor Vladimir Ipatient at costs of vecinulli, last wecic, and Bettiah interests, and would again X father's behaviour is unworthy of a member of the academy first experimental shipment of 500 mercy of rivals They urge the meeting of the Soviet Academy of Science to-day. "I urgently hood of a long-sighted policy, and a demand his expulsion. Once I was proud to bear his name, but now orders have already been received system of subsidies guaranteed for I am heartily ashamed of it.”.

thore for another 1,000 cases.

The

ton years.

for the maintenance of British The elder Ipallet and another equally famous Soviet chemist, believed to be a direct sequels the shipping as a whole, further Govern- Nikolal Chichibarin, were expelled from the academy.

ment

shortage of citrus fruff @supplies throughout the Far East caused, by

ent assistance in the form of subsi-Both men were given leave of absence to pursue research work the American shipping.strike.

either of building or running abroad, and the charge against them was, that they had taken up posts costs, is asked for, or else, better with foreign arma and refused to return to Russin:

by

Australia hopes to capture many of

the markets previously monopolized provision of int guarantee at cheap

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

petroleum industry;, their continued absence was therefore condemned The former Conzul-General for Chins, In Australia, Dr. Chen, who, at a's unpatriotic.

present resides in Sydney, will leave pra director of the largest shipping || The expulsion motion was conducted by secret ballot, introduced for China early this month to push 1 company in Great Britain suggestedunder the new Constitution. Seventy members did not vote. Exchange, salts of Australian citrus fruit, ;**

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