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Bits From the Log of Progress Events of Interest to Those Engaged in Operating, Constructing and Outfitting Yards and Ships jections to having any relations with German seamen into the recent international seamen's conference at Genoa, Italy. British sailors, it will be recalled, had vowed not to deal with German seamen on account of the inhu- manity of the submarine warfare. At the conference, the British sailors ob- jected to the presence of German seamen who had signed a manifesto favoring the submarine campaign. Delegates of the allied nations as well as many of the neutrals sup- ported this position and the German delegates at first were excluded from all workmen's conferences and meetings. Later the question was settled when the B isi SEAMEN carried their ob- German delegation, acting under au- thority of their government, issued a declaration deploring the submarine tactics and affirming the intention of the German government to 'compensate the victims. The statement plainly admits the wrongs of submarine warfare and acknowledges a national obligation to tepair losses, ee oe PREWAR SHIPPING service of the Union Steamship Co., Ltd., between San Fran- cisco and Sydney, Australia, will be re- stored. All of its vessels will be con- verted to oil burners, an oil supply depot being planned at Sydney adjoining the company's coal station. Oil burners have experienced difficulties recently at Syd- hey in getting fuel supplies and two American ships recently . were refitted for coal in order to reach the nearest oil station, x k&- * _Joux Barton Payne, secretary of the interior and former chairman of the shipping board, in an effort to develop Alaskan resources has approved the re- Port Of the special committee recom- rhein that federal supervision of 0 affairs be consolidated and that ee oe shipping lines now . laskan ports be combined to These ee economy and _ efficiency. mes are the Pacific Steamship ®, and the Alaska Steamship Co. ee & Assurances : THAT. th f..th Ve» 535-foot, c first Oo the 21,000-ton assenger je , D g sa allocated to the Pacific emp Co. for operation in the 'to the port district. Seattle-Oriental route will be ready for delivery Sept. 28, have beeh given by Admiral W. S. Benson, chairman of the shipping board, to A. F. Haines, vice president of the steamship cor- poration. The chairman said that the board may be able to turn four other big liners over to the Seattle corpora- tion before the end of the year. * * * Eiguty Russians endangered when the steamer Sorover was imprisoned in the ice of the Kara sea have been rescued: by the English icebreaker Svratocor. The Russians were helpless in the Arctic ice for more than three months. Wireless calls for help brought the icebreaker from England. Views of the Svratocor, showing her unusual equipment for ice work, were published in the Marine Review, July, 1920. * * * A PLAN to bring the navigable water- way of the Duwamish river under the supervision of the Seattle port com- mission has started. The idea of. the consolidation is to make the Duwamish waterway a part of the general scheme for port and industrial development. The consolidation, if effected, will add about 6 miles of commercial waterway The commercial waterway was established before the 'port of Seattle was organized. * oo * bE REPRESENTATIVES of companies operat- ing in the transpacific trade and or- ganized as the Pacific Coast Oriental Tariff bureau met recently at Vancouver, B. C., to discuss the shipping situation including freight rates. The companies represented included the Pacific Steam- ship Co., Frank Waterhouse James Griffiths & Sons, Struthers & Dixon, Dodwell & Co., the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, the Osaka Shosen Kaisha, the Trans-Oceanic Co., the Pacific Mail Steamship Co., the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, the Columbia Pacific Steamship Co., and the Canadian Pacific Ocean Services. ee In A LETTER to the. Marine Review, Pardo & Bassani, steamship agents and brokers, Venice, Italy, advise that sail- ing conditions in the Adriatic sea are nearly normal. They point out that fear of the disturbed political conditions along the Adriatic shores as well as danger 471 &. Co. of floating mines has worked to the dis- advantage of various ports particularly Venice. The mines, they state, have been well cleared, a special course for steam- ers having been ordered largely as an extra safeguard. ook THE MINISTER of reconstruction of the German republic has notified German shipyards that 24 vessels now under con- struction are to be completed at the cost of the German state for delivery to the reparations committee, under the terms of the peace treaty. These vessels include one of 56,000 gross tons register; one of 20,800; one of 18,000; two of 11,517 each; two of. 11,000 each; one of -- 10,900; one of 7500; one of 7370; two of 6486 each; three of 6000 each; one of 4500; three of 3920 each; one of 3800 ; and four of 2135 each. * * * COMPLETE INFORMATION on _ yessels documented on the Pacific coast of the United States and Hawaiian islands is given' in a book now being distributed by the Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., San Francisco. The book, which is be- ing.sent free of charge, contains data of interest both to shipowners and mas- ters. KR Oe THe Cotumsia Pacific Shipping Co., managirig agent, has announced a direct freight service, without transshipment, from Portland, Oreg., to Kobe, Yoko- hama, Dairen, Chinwingtao, Taku Bar, Tsingtau and Shanghai, beginning July - 30 with the steamer West Keats, to be followed by the West Nivaria, Aug. 10, and the West Nomentum, Aug. 30. * * x SEVEN STEEL steamers have been as- signed to the New York-Seattle service of the Isthmian Steamship line, a sub- sidiary of the United States Steel Corp. The ships will maintain a fortnightly service. The vessels on the run will be the Stee. Worker, STEEL Exporter, STEEL VOYAGER, STEEL RANGER, STEEL INVENTOR, STEEL SEAFARER, and STEEt. TRADER. soe A NEW RECORD has been set by the steamer VESTRIS, which made the voy- age from New York to Rio Janeiro in 14%4 days, the previous best time having been 15 days and some hours. «