1939-06-16 — Page 2

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 16, 1939.

COASTAL

BRITAIN HAS LOST 2,526 SHIPS SINCE THE WAR

Worst Gap in Country's Women Scrub

Plans for Defence

By MORLEY-RICHARDS

A RAILWAY engineer sitting in the 10.30 morning

express to the west recently told of, what could happen if enemy aircraft bombed certain junctions of the G.W.R

He thought it possible that the with whom he regularly did, busi-; whole system might be dislocated—ness.

for a time, at any rate.

Britain has two other transport routes--roads and the sea.

If, in war-time, the railways were put out of action, our roada could not bear the burden of oll the nation's transport.

We would take our goods and food around the const in little ships DA we did in the last war,

But then we had 3,430 constal vessels. Now we have 001, And the Dutchmen.

1 discussed this problem with several shipbrokers during my in- vestigation into Britain's Coastal

trade.

Every one of them saw in it the worst gap in Britain's defence plans.

NEVER REPLACED

Mr. Charles Topper, a broker at Teleninouth, said: "This little port used to have is fleet of ships. Their casually rate was high in the war. They have never been replaced. Now we have only one vessel be- longing to the port.

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"When the Baltic, I have to charter foreigners, usually the Danes. "When we have potter's cluyour principal export-for another Eng- fish or Scottish town, the Dutetunen carry it for U5, I suppose If war came we should have to employ the Dutch all the time if they would stay.

have a freight for, say.

gut our coastal tonnage has de- creased su much it is now 243,170 Kross; in 1914 it was 432,558) ibat we should never be able to handle the goods allowing for casualties."

I saw a broker's list of shipowners

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The first nineteen names were

in

all foreign; the next six, regis- tered at Somerset House, All bave foreign capital

and, Rome cases, foreign directors. The official Agure for the amount of trade captured by the Dutch is 13 per cent, for ships up to 500 tans, and 7 per cent. for vessels up to 750 tons.

FAIR QUESTION › Actually, it is higher than that. Coal-carrying is excluded from these figures. They also do not include British-registered actually foreign.

Arms who arc

Take one or two instances:

Gravestones

WOMEN of

the village of Kullon, Staffordshire, spent some time recently looking over thelr supplies of scrubbing brushes, buckets and soRP.

Every evening that week, as their ancestors have done for 157 years, they scrubbed clean all the village's gravestones.

Their menfolk meantime planted flowers, and cleared away weeds.

For the next Sunday was the an- niversary of the village's Sunday school, which is the second oldest in the country.

The

graveyard were swarming with people during the clean-up," the Rev. J.Drierley, minister of the Congregational Church, said.

custom, since it is unnatural for a "I am not much in favour of the

stone that has been weather-beaten for years to appear too new.

"However, would not like to change it."

But it is a fair question: Why aren't British goods carried in British ships by British people? One of the most secluded back- water towns of Devonshire is Kings- bridge,

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International Shipbrokers Ltd., who have kately changed their name to Anlon, Ltd. Messrs. Marinus Jacques Van der Eb and Arle Van der Eb, of Holland, and Mr. Joseph It is the terminal point of a branch Steven Bruers, a Belgian, are the railway. You can also reach it by principal directors, with Mr. Ar-Ralling up a seven mile long, lovely thur Albury Pollard, an English-creek, through the South Ham hills. man, as the fourth. They have

DOUBLE-DUTCJI been in the trade for six years. Mesars. L. Dens and Co., Ltd., have four shareholders. These are the Dens-Ocean Society Antwerp (2,323 shares), George R. Hardy, of Lon-

Coole, for his good conduct, was don (101), Pierre Paul Rubbens,

presented with a rolled gold watch of Antwerp (75), and Leon Dens, Two Dutch ships have regular con- by the governor when he left the of Antwerp (1).

trnets to net as carriers from the reformatory three years ago. Milanderlaan Motor Constal Ltd.; beautiful old city. Devon and Dutch

have

shareholders Matt accents mingle strangely. two Albert Ranby Milton, of Hendon, It all scunded like double-Dutch and Anne Van der Loon, of Hol- land.

Not so long ago Dutch ships were carrying lead pipes from Poole in Dorset to Scotland for the Royal Alr (Continued on Next Column.)

TREDERICK JAMES COOK, once "the best boy in Borstal," cried in the dock at the Old Bailey recently when he was reminded of his The Dutch do reach it that way-successful career at the Borstal Institution at Feltham, Middlesex, When I was there, three ships were loading cargoes-one English, two "They were the happiest days of Dutch.

[my life," he sold. Exeter, capital of the county, Is further, still from the sea. It has a cunal.

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No one suggests these, and many other firms, have not a perfect right to carry on a business,

to me.

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"He got certificates for cricket, football and athletics, and ever so many good conduct stripes. The discipline was strict, but otherwise things were the same as at any ordinary school. The boys were taught that they should

of Borstal. They Recently he pleaded guilty to ashamed breaking into premises and stealing told that it could be the making of property worth £215. He heard them. It was as good as a public Judge Beazley say, "Although you school for a boy in his position. did so well at Borstal, you must be punished." He

"When the governor was ever at was sentenced fteen months' imprisonment.

to Wandsworth, near iny home, he would drop in for a cup of tea and Cook's mother, who had unsuccess-talk to me about Jimmy. He and fully pleaded in court that he be good hopes for him. given another chances, described how her son came to be "ihe best boy in Borstal."

"The discipline did him good. He seemed to like it," she said.

"When they sent him away from me, 1 thought I had seen the end of all that was best in him. You

"When it was time for Jimmy to leave the governor presented m with a roljed gold watch-for

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Force. There are numerous cases of the foreigners being chartered by private firms to carry goods to coun- ty councils all along the const.

"How can we help It? my friend Mr. Topper sald. "Of course, we would sooner give freights to British

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or their prices are prohibitive."

We took a day's shipping list, sc- lected at random. He ran his finger

Greece to Wed

down the ports: Plymouth, four The engagement was announced Dutch ships; Par, one; Fowey, two; recently of Lieut.-Col. Dimitri Le- Mevigissey, two Falmouth, four; vidis and Mme. G. Veoutsines, a Swansea, four; Southampton, five. prominent member of Athens society.

"Now look at the North Water shortly.

They will be married in Athens

way," said Mr. Tapper, Indicating

the sailings from Holland that day. Col. Levidis, is Master of Cere- We counted them: thirty-three ships monica at the Greek Court, and he outward bound.

Is also a persoanl friend of King George of Greece.

Yes. Bound for Britain,

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