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Vice Admiral Sir Charles Little
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LAKE TSANA'S VALUE TO NILE FLOOD
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Comdr. N. H. Beal EN ORE Not one of the pays now r and his Flag Lieutenant. It is in London is represented RP Francklin, RN, "and" was
Hong Kong, Thursday, Jan. 9, 1936. Little.
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ENGINEERING REASONS
(By Maj. Gen. A. C. Temperley)
HE question of Lake Tsana [1904, on the Basin of the Upper
the sport of international jea-Under-Secretary of State for lousy and suspicion." In Egypt, Public Works, Egypt, to which always sensitive to any matter is attached a Report upon Lake believed to affect the Nile, there Tsana and the rivers of the has been, something like con-Eastern Sudan by Mr. C. sternation at the possibility of Dupuis, of the Egyptian Terija- an invasion of Abyssinia con-tion Service. stituting a threat to its fe giving waters.
When the Blue Nile is in
December 14 silt. This is carried down to
met on board by Commodore F. N. pictorially or the hoardings. Only Attwood, Chief-of-Staff to the re-a few years ago such an omission tiring Admiral and who will also would have been thinkable...
The collection has been presen be Chief-of-Stat to Sir Charles by Mr. M. J. Landa, and form
useful complement to Arriving, also by the Chitral Gabrielle Ethoven collection were. Capt. Waller, RN, who is theatre programmes. Captain in the Admiral's Stadt and dollar has who went down to Singapore to
Small Catchment Arka-- certainly been unchanged" for meet Sir Charles, and Pay. LA TAGS OF MELODRAMA
Lake Tsana is situated at an a few days, but that is unfor- Cdr. E C. Crisp, who has arrived
Some are of the rather distant Great Britain, with her great {past-ludicronsły tunately no guarantee for the to take over the duties of secre
melodramatic interests in the Nile Valley, altitude of 6,000-ft, and in a future. The successful guesserary to the Chief-of-Start
posturing in garish colours to must also be vitally concerned basin of which the mountancus sides are 1,500-ft. above the still has a wide field for his Sir Charles Little, who came draw the public to "East Lynne in safeguarding its sources.
The catch- operations. Admitting that we ashore. in an Admiralty barge, The Lights London," "When As long ago as 1902 we made level of the lake are bound to follow the market, will take up residence at Admiral-London Sleeps." 0% some area treaty with the Emperor ment area is small and the only and that any hard and fast fix-ty House,
seen such quotations as "Dead, and Menelik, in which he agreed outlet from the lake is the Blue ing of the rate is at present out
be never called me mother?" "Go"not to allow to be constructed Nile (or Abbai, as it is called in of the question, are there any
and sin no more!" and "Take of any work which would arrest Abyssinia). The flow is at its means by which the merchant His Excellency Sir Frederic your coat and fight me like a the flow of water into the Nile highest in January and at its who is bent on buying and sell Dreyer will retain command until man!”
except in agreement with the lowest in May, when it practi- ing goods can be assisted in he leaves for Home by the as Of artistic as well as historical Governments of Great Britain cally ceases forming a correct anticipation Carthage next Saturday.
value are those of Tree as Sven and the Sudan.” of what is likely to be the course At 8 am, on Saturday the fing gali, of Sir Martin Harvey of In order to insure the position flood it is heavily charged with of the money market?
of the Vice Admiral will be broken Wyndham in "Mrs. Dane's Destill further, on
and 20, 1925, we exchanged Lower Egypt and the Delta, It cannot be said that we are on EMS. Dorsetshire. The Dor-fence," and of Irving.
notes with the Italian Gover-where its deposits are the main without the chance of observing setshire will then salute the Ad-
ment, in which, subject to the source of cultivation over an all sorts of experiments made miral's flag on EMS. Eent with
Italians undertaking not to tam-area of 5,508,000 acres.
The by the gold countries, and al-17 guns, to which, the flagship]
per with the water flow into the slices in Egypt and the Sudan though the application of the will reply with a salute of 15
Good Combination
main Nile river, we promised to are kept open to let the food lessons to silver may require
Daughter (pleading for boy recognise an exclusive Italian through. some adjustment, it is nonsense
Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Little friend): "Daddy dear, Heury is a economic influence in the west It so happens that this water to say that the rules-that-govern
the Kent, being young man who believes in combin- of Abyssinia.
comes down at a time when the fate of one metal have no will then board
ofing business with pleasure.”
Egypt is well off for water früma it received by a naval guard bearing on the other; and
Father: "T'd rather be were a
the White Nile. : young man who combined business would be very easing to the honour and band.
At 10.15 ZJM, Admiral Sir with profts." public mind if someone in an- thority would enlighten us as Frederic Dreyer will leave his to the principles on which our flagship, the guard of honour and financial policy is to be guided band still parading, and will pro- The preacher was reading the vade the country. It is be Blue Nile comes from the whole That is not asking the Govern-ceed by car to Queen's Fier. A Scripture when an elderly lady broke lieved that Signor Mussolini catchment basin throughout its ment to regulate what is not military guard of honour will be: What kind of Bible are you us-then gave certain assurances to course of 700 kilometres and the British Government, and chiefly from its tributaries, the capable of regulation, or to find furnished at the Pier and after 5 parson?”
"Threading from the Revised there is no reason to doubt them Labus, the Dinder and the gift of prophecy. It is inspecting this. His Excellency Version," he answered.
the simply asking that the point will cross the harbour to "Em?" she said. "The King James or the undertakings of Decem-Rabad, all below the point where it issues from the Abyssinian shall be grasped that the Carthage.
version was good enough for St. Paul ber, 1925.
It is, however, worth while to Tsana Lake has but a small in- hills. He remarks that "the and it's good enough for me? interests of the trading public €is will then be exchanged.
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examine what exactly is the fluence upon its (ie the Blue are identical with those of the between the new C-in-t, His
Most Have Been Good! value of Lake Tsana to the Nile Nile) supply at any period of Government, and one of those Excellency the Governor, and interests is that all possible E
Extract from a boy's letter: "We what the effect of the proposed gave a performance of Hamlet bedam, which has already been information shall be given.
fore we brake up for Christmas, and,
Dam- Possibility It is admitted by all the
a lot of fathers and mothers came. projected, would be; and whe authorities that the British tage would be given to the Althougo some of them had seen ither it is physically possible! For some time the possibility Equalisation Fund, has been speculator. He at any rate is a before, they laughed just the same from an engineering point of of building a dam has been dis- view to divert or hold up the cussed, and negotiations with very ably worked. It has specialist who spends much of served its main object of this time in studying the latest a contemporary prophesies that the Nile water by any action at an American company were well
present interest in the Tudor period Lake Tsana.
advanced before the war start- steadying the market by mak- prices and transactions Addi-will have a startling effect on fash-
The chief source of my in-led ing, the variations of sterling in tional information would rather ion. So far, however, the man f formation is the Report, dated (Continued on Page 11) comparison with the gold dollar decrease his hold on the cus-the street remains unruffed. and the franc travel in easy tomer, who has many other curves rather than in sharp ups things to think about.
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Officer the General manding.
Com-
and downs like the teeth of Our Statistical Branch of the saw. But it has had one draw Imports and Exports Depart- back, which is that its absolute ment does already provide re- secrecy has created a vast liable figures for anyone who amount of suspicion in foreign wants to know about the quan- countries, particularly in the tities of materials coming in
and their
ARE YOU HEADHUNTER?rianty cample going out, and de
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can be found in the recent jclared values, but for exchange speech of the notorious Senator purposes what is wanted is not] Key Pittman, who has appar merely a balance of trade but a ently been able, to judge from balance of payments. It is an the general tone of American intricate business, but what is press comment, to imbue the known to be a very good est- Middle West with the idea that mate is published by the Board all the troubles of unemploy-of Trade every year for Eng- ment and under-production are land. The task for Hong Kong due to the machinations of a would be infinitely easier, and a wicked British Government return of the Exchange «Frnd This has led to a suggestion by balance at the end of each some of the most influential month would go a long way to publicists and bankers that supply the deficiency, and would periodical returns should be provide a useful check on the published. The position of the trade figures themselves. Fund at any time could be very It would also be useful to easily indicated, for its assets have an indication of policy as on the one side of the ledger to the criterion that is to be are balanced by its holdings of taken as a guide. Is it the Treasury Bills: When Mr world price of gold?s or of Neville Chamberlain states in silver? or the price of the Nan- the Budget speech that the king yuan? Any of these Fund shows a balance, the would have its merits and its meaning of the statement is difficulties. But there is very that the amount of the assets little advantage to anyone in has enabled a certain amount of trying to mamtain a standard Treasury Bills to be cancelled of our own which wobbles now If the profits were big enough towards one of them and now the position at the end would be towards another. We are not that all the outstanding Trea-bound to purchase silver sury Bills would have been can when we do not want to, so celled, and the Fund would still the regulation hold the assets *** If;
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the Chancellor coul
to himself a nice reduction of debt
within the
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The question again arose in
The important point is..
an acate form when it became Sir William Garstin points out, clear that Italy intended to in that the flood supply of the
the year.
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