Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-10-08
TRANS-PAClF|C
line OF SHIPS

The latest phase of the trans-Pa a.
CifiC freight business contest. par.
ticularly that from India via Hong
kong. which has been agitating the
shipping world for a year or more,
is to be a new line from Calcutta TO
Puget Sound Via Hongkong by the
I'ritishlndia Navigation Co, which
has long dominated East India coastal
traffic and which recently establish
ed new service between Burma and
Japan. Plans include immediate
construction for this esrvice of four
new vessels Of about 10000 tons each.
so states Consul G.. E. Anderson OF
HOngkong.
The Nippon YuSen Kaisha, sub
sidized Japanese line maintaining a
service from nongkong to Puget
Sound ports via Japan as well as 9TH
er services all over the world, estah-
lished a new line under subsidy be-
tween Japan and Calcutta, asking that
the new line be admitted to the "Cal-
cutta Conference" lines. This new
line was established in opposition to
existing lines from Calcutta to Hong
kong and Japan and was designed par.
ticulary to secure the gupny sack ex-
ports from India. Admission to the
Conference was refused and after
about a years agitation the Japanese
line was dropped from the Conference.
1t is understood that the new trans
Pacific line of this British company is
being established in direct opposition
tc the Japanese service and the con-
test for this trans-Pacific trade is as
Stunning acute form. The British line
recently absorbed the Apear line in
the Calcutta-Japan trade, in addition
tc establishing service of its own
ships from Rangoon to Japan, trans
shipping considerable cargo for the
United States at Hongkong. On July
l the company financed it's new de-
velopment by issuing in London IT,
0eC, 600 ($4,S66,50Cl' ~ per cent de-
hentures at par. The Japanese line,
naturally, is supported by Government
subsidies and other aid. 1t announces
its determination to fight the contest
to a finish and indicates its intention
to place two more steamers, purchas-
ed recently in Japan, on the Calcutta
service, in addition to the five YES
sells now employed, thus making three
sailings a. month, and plans to sub
stitute larger ships. On the other nand'
the financial strength of the British
concern indicates that a far-reaching
contest is likely to me maintained in
definitely. r. 49,. >. pc.
May Shut Out Non-1ritish Ships.
One phase of the relations of jap
anese and other steamship lines in
the Far East likely to have early i'm.
portant Developments is the proposal
urged by British lines which seems to
Re receiving considerable sympathy
from Governments concerned, to pass
a British act prohibiting the vessels
of a.. nations which shut British yes
sells out of their domestic or eoastfng
trade, from carrying goods or paasen-
gers between British colonial or other
British ports. As will be recalled, the
reorganization OF Japanese shipping
about IS months ago shut
all non-J Japanese ships out of the trade
between japanese ports. This rule
bore more heavily upon British and
German ships than upon any others.
though American ships were affected
to some extent, in spite of the: fact |
that Japanese ships are allowed to
trade between American and Philip
pine ports. II the same rule is en-
forced against Japanese ships in Brit
ish colonial and other British ports !
the traffic of the European, Australian |
and Indian lines of Japanese compan- /
90 ,y;Il ba affoofod az cori0loIv a q m \
revolutionize the entire situation. This |
.tep by British interests has been !
seriously contemplated for several
months and it is understood that pre-
urinary action already is being taken |
n Indian looking to some such de-
relODment RI zst.-1