MOVEMENTS OF
ALL SHIPS IS
BEING TABBED
NEW YORK, June 11 (by Associated
Press).—The establishment of a gov
ernment-controlled bureau of shipping
Information, through which maritime
interests of the United States are ad
vised dally through official sources and
without cost, of the movements ol
practically all the merchant ships ol
the world, is an outgrowth of one ol
the activities of the navy department
during the war.
This bureau, conducted by what is
known as the naval communications
service, was instituted shortly after
this country entered the conflict. It
was made necessary for the reason
that prior to that time there was no
organized branch of the government
through which the movement of ships
could be obtained on short notice.
The demands of the navy and war de
partments, the United States Shipping
Board and allied war interests re
quired that there be at hand at all
times a carefully revised record of all
ships—not alone of their movements,
but details as to their tonnage, speed,
specifications as to build, etc.
Under the direction of a naval of
ficer, with assistants recruited from
the marine departments of press asso
ciations, daily and marine publica
tions, etc., the bureau was established
and arrangements were at once made
for prompt and reliable dispatches
from all parts of the world concern
ing ship movements, this service em
bracing not only the facilities of the
telegraph and cable but the govern
ment-controlled wireless as well.
Its value during the war was ines
timable and with the coming of peace
and the efforts to build up in this
country an efficient merchant marine,
the bureau has thrown open to the
public—and particularly to the ship
owners, charters, shippers, insurance
interests and maritime business gen
erally, the facilities of its vast and
far-reaching service.
By means of a card index a question
relating to any ship can be promptly
answered—and reliable information as
to her sailing date, estimated time of
arrival at port of destination, location
at sea or in port, can be readily given
It is a service which prior to the war
was maintained in a similar manner
by many of the foreign maritime na
tions—some of them much smaller
and having far less ships than did this
country. With a large merchant
marine, such as this country appar
ently desires, the value of such a
service, marine men say, is unques
tioned.
The naval communication service
employs about 250 persons, all in navy
uniform and under direction of Lieu
tenant Commander R. B. Coffman. It
issues daily, and distributes free of
cost to more than 800 shipping firms,
newspapers, government officials,
maritime exchanges, etc., a bulletin of
145 pages carrying the names of more
than 10,000 vessels each name showing
nationality, tonnage, location or sail
ing date. Evidencing the demand for
this information the circulation of the
bulletin is increasing rapidly. Between
the hours of issue, the bureau keeps
ship owners advised by telephone or
radio messages sent from ships at sea.
The practical sources of information
from which the bulletin acquires its
data are daily reports by telegraph and
cable from naval officers at ports in
the United States and from attaches
in foreign countries; daily reports
from the bureau of operations of the
United States navy and officers of
the naval intelligence bureau; daily
reports (except Sunday) from the
British ministry of shipping; informa
tion obtained from steamship com
panies and agents; Associated Press
cablegrams; the Lloyds’ Daily Index;
the United States Shipping Board;
telephonic reports from lookout sta
tions and guard ships stationed in
New York harbor, and from the army
piers of the Port of Embarkation, in
Hoboken.
In addition to serving the maritime
interests, the naval communication
service, through its 'vast cable, tele
graph and radio facilities, is handling
practically all the business of the gov
ernment passing through New York.
Another feature ot its service, regard
ing which the war-time ban of se
crecy has but been recently lifted, was
the perfecting of an electro-magnetic
signaling device whereby fog bound
ships may determine their position
and be warned away from dangerous
shoals.
This device enables the listening
operator to determine not on If the
direction from which the call Series
but the distance from which
By means of cross bearings, taken
from different receiving stations it
becomes but a simple mathematical
problem to determine an exact loca
tion, and the vessel sending the signal
is so advised. For this service alone
the marine intersts desire the depart
ment continued.
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A Peace That Paved the Way for the American Revolution.
On February 10. 1763, there was
signed one of the most momentous
treaties ever concluded In the history
of the world; for It not only decided
whether the Latin or the Anglo-Saxon
race should be supreme In North
America, not only deposed France
from her position of a colonial power
of the first rank, but it ended a war
which had taught the American col
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selves In terms of distinctive national
ity, had laid the foundations for the
American Revolution and developed
the genius of George Washington.
Unlike the other wars which had
disturbed the American colonies and
called upon the colonists to shed their
blood In backing up some European
quarrel In which they had no Inter
est, this war was begun In the Amer
ican wilds over American questions,
and Its main theater of action was
American soli. It Is known In Amer
ica as the French and Indian war.
French and English Quarrel.
Scarcely was the Ink dried on the
Treaty of Alx-la-Chapelle when the
French and English began to quarrel
over the boundaries of that Indefinite
region of “Arcadia,” which had been
ceded to England by the Treaty of
Utrecht On the Ohio a land company
claimed under a charter from George
II vast stretches of land which the
French claimed lay In French terri
tory. The governor of Canada sent
a military force from Montreal to
drive out the English settlers and es
tablish posts. The governor of Vir
ginia decided to send a “person of dis
tinction” to Inquire" Into this, and se
lected George Washington, then twen
ty-one years of age. The French com
mandant declared he would hold his
ground.
The next spring Washington went
out with an expedition to build a fort
at the junction of the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers where now Is
Pittsburgh. Reaching the Great
Meadows he learned of the approach
of a French force and attacked It,
killing and taking prisoners almost
the entire party. The ball was
opened and Washington bad opened It.
It Is not necessary to go over the
history of the French and Indian war
which was closed by the treaty of
Paris nine years later. Every school
boy knows of Braddock’s defeat and
Wolf's victory. Washington, as an
officer of the Virginia militia and as
aid to Braddock, learned the art of
war by experience and so distin
guished himself that his name was
known in Europe. Quebec fell In Sep
tember of 1759, Montreal surrendered
In 1760, and Canada fell Into the
power of the English. Spain Joined
France In 1761 and a British fleet and
army, to which New York and New
England contributed, captured Havana
the next year. The commerce of
France was almost swept from the
seas by British cruisers and Spain
was not able to carry on her com
merce with her American colonies.
British Proposed Peace.
The British proposed a peace.
Their terms were hard but Cholsuel,
the French minister, said: "What can
we doT The English are drunk with
success and we are not In a condition
to abase their pride.”
Preliminaries were signed at Paris
on November 3 and a definite
treaty on February 10 the next year.
To England was ceded, besides Islands
In the West Indies, Canada, Louisiana
as far west as the Mississippi, but ex
cluding New Orleans and the terri
tory Immediately around It New Or
leans and Louisiana west of the Mis
sissippi France gave to Spain for her
aid. Of all her North American pos
sessions France retained only the lit
tle Islands of Miquelon and St. Pierre
and a right In the fisheries. Havana
was given up to Spain by England In
return for Florida.
Qulznt says: “The humiliation was
deep, the loss Irrepnrable. But the
hour was coming for that supreme
struggle which should give to the
world the United States of America.”
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