THE CHINA MAIL AUGUST 28, 1937.
Pare II
GERMAN ENGINEER PLANNING A NEW CONTINENT
Europe, Africa Linked By Damming Mediterranean
SHANGHAI
EMERGENCY POSTAL
MEASURES
Shanghai.
Dam At Straits Of Gibraltar
B. & S. SUITING VICTIMISED
When they awoke cently,
Plans to create a new continent, to be called Swire Emergency measures have been "Atlantropa," by sinking the level of the Mediter had turned ov taken by the Shanghai Municipal ranean and thus joining Europe to Africa have Council to cope with any situation been devised by a German architect and engine
which would arise should the Chin- ese postal authorities in this area be unable to continue to function. A
sub-committee, whose secretary is
Mr. C. C. O'Connell, has been ap- pointed, and all preparations are re ported to be complete. As in 1932, when such a post-office was set up, for a short time towards the end of that time's troubles, the SMC. |
Herr Herman Soerget.
Herr Soergel would like to build two gigantie dams, one at the Straits of Gibraltar and the other at the Bosphorus to lessen the flow of water from the Atlantic and the Black Sea into the Mediter-
ranean.
power,
morning re- Exfield- and Suiping
her side dur- bmerged herself
Just how xactly. For- alongside
jest
side,
iness company her but
got for the has made it îm- would handle mail matter both out- These two dams would provide power from the two dams at Gibral
for them to res her for ward and inward, with the co-opera-water power of 200,000,000 horse tar and the Bas
the tin being and carry on with tion of shipping companies, and
Herr Soergel calculates, If this gigantic scheme was ear- which would be used to irrigate ried out, Herr Soergel declares, the postal officials elsewhere.
It is believed that shrapnel open- It is stated that in the event of
North Africa and the Sahara De problems of the life and nourishment fed holes in the vessel during the the necessity arising, the emergency
of the European peoples would be night allowing water to pour in but post-office would not be quartered in He admits that his plan would solved for all time and they would the actual cause of her foundering cannot be ascertained until she can the Council building at before be-take at least 250 years to execute gain vast new possibilities of de-4
be examined velopment.
sert
cause of a lack of room. Suitable and that the political difficulties are premises will be found outside. almost insuperable in present-day
Provisional Arrangements Europe. But he thinks that the THE “IT” THAT In view of the present situation"creation of this continent would in Shanghai, provisional arrange sublimate the pleasure in war and MAKES SALESMEN ments have been made by the local destruction of the European nations Post Office for maintaining the in constructive work for centuries service.
[to come."
From August 19 and "until fur- ther notice, mails which will be
MOMENT HAS COME accepted will be limited to ordinary, registered and express letters, post-
Herr Soergel considers that the cards and newspapers.
moment has come when the vast The acceptance of insured letters, undeveloped spaces of Africa have C.O.D. articles and heavy mails become the necessary economic com- such as parcels, light and bulky plement to a crowded Europe, if printed matter, etc., will be tempor- the white races are to survive in the arily discontinued.
struggle for life against the 10 times more numerous yellow races and maintain their place alongside Panasia and Panamerica.
Before the last ice age, Herr Soer- gel argues, the Mediterranean was mainly dry land
Due to the traffic interruption, it has been impossible to deliver arti- cles addressed to places in Chapei and other war areas. Such articles, however, will be delivered if possible through assigned post offices be tween 9 am and 5 p.m. daily, ex- He proposes that these conditions cept Sundays within a time-limit should be re-established by dam- of ten days, after which they will ming the Atlantic and the Black be returned to the offices of origin. Sea so that more water should be excluded than evaporates from the Mediterranean.”
EXHIBITION OF LUIS CHAN'S
PAINTINGS
BERLIN CAPETOWN RAILWAY
The level of the Mediterranean would thus fall and provide strips of fertile land round the margin of the sea
He calculates that if the level was made to fall by about 500 feet the
The Hong Kong Working Artists land so gained would produce crops.
Guild is to present its Third One
to the yearly value of about £1,000,
Man Exhibition. It will consist of 000,000. the recent oil paintings and wa colours by Mr. Luis Chan, orie the founders of the Guild.
An overland railway from Berlin of to Capetown could be built
what is now the Mediterranea
be recalled that Mr. Chan Shipping could still circulate
held two solo.
ester Hotel,
remaining water surface
SAHARA DESERT
ond part of Herr
What is the mysterious "it" su- per-salesmen have that sells their
No other merchant ship in the har- hour has been victimised by shot and shell as much as the Suiping. It began when a Chinese bomb- ploded beside her killing sixteen and wounding many more. was promptly evacuated and left The vessel
lying at Wating Wharf. wares?
But the missiles of war were not yet through This was the question that Dr.with her and now she is reclining
Miles, famous industrial psy on her side against the bottom. chologist, was employed by Hoover, Ltd, at Perivale, Middlesex, to an-diverted from the goods. swer. He told me:--
"Broad shoulders, good looks and fascinating smile are not enough. A homely fat person may have that it. His charm is not so attractive that the customer's attention
"We have one such supersales man a middle-aged person, whose
is so remarcable that when policeman came over to give him a ticket for over parking.
nam cleaner
Cook
by
Gas
bought a