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...things they can't do to us: they can't boil us in the coppers and they can't put us in the family way." He is equally delighted to remember the disdain of one Chawbags Bayly for the microscopic difference between senior and junior mid- shipmen. Said Chawbags: "I can never see that there is any more difference between a senior midshipman and a junior midshipman than there is between a large cowpat and a small cowpat." Occasionally the force of his anecdotes is somewhat weakened by the necessity of bowdlerizing 'navy lingo into such...
...economic side Her Majesty's Government have just moved far toward making peace in the cut-throat Far East freight war between Dutch and Japanese shipping companies. By quiet, patient insistence Premier Colijn has forced both Japanese and Dutch shipmen to agree upon preliminary peace terms and these will now be used by diplomats of Tokyo and The Hague in an effort to make a binding economic treaty between the Empire of Hirohito and that of Wilhelmina...
Navy accounted for the third defeat by taking the Harvard team in hand 7-1 at Annapolis, Maryland. The Mid-shipmen almost whitewashed the Cambridge team, which only managed to score through the efforts of Thomas Edmands in the final quarter...
...passengers. Thus far tourists have been so scarce this year that no line calling at Cherbourg has been willing to pay the extra charge for the sake of being able to advertise "The Longest Gangplank In The World" as does the French Line whose ships tie up at Havre. Shipmen argue that the Municipality of Cherbourg built its deep-water port and docks with money collected from travelers as a port tax, should therefore feel morally bound to cut its rates for the comfort of travelers who still pay the port tax even when embarking or debarking on Cherbourg tenders...
Since minimum fares are fixed by the Atlantic Conference on a basis of speed, not size, the Champlain's $145 minimum cabin-class fare was challenged last week, shipmen contending that because of her greater speed she will have to be placed in a special cabin-class bracket with slightly higher fare. Similarly when the German speed ships were introduced their first-class fares were forced above the "No. 1" bracket of first-class liners into an especially created "A" bracket. On her maiden voyage the Champlain averaged 19½ knots, but like the Bremen and Europa has speed...