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THM, HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAROH 13r, 1918. -
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THE PHARMACY,
SIGNS OF REVIVAL.
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LUXURY · AFLOAT. CONDITIONS OF MODERN TRAVEL BY SEA.
increas
THE SANDS OF THR ·
DESERT.
IS DESICCATION GRADUALLY
·SPREADING 1
The tendency of the passenger lines, arising equally from policy and from
recent message from Cairo stated that competition, was, and is rather to preliminary stops are to be taken in the facilities and amenities examination of the sources of the water Various estimates have recently been made enjoyed by passengers than to raise on which the life of Egypt depends. The of the progress of shipbuilding in this passage rates, says a writer in "Brassey Under Secretary for Public Works ep
Naval and Shipping Annual" But the ineers, and geologists are to go up the sountry during the year 1923, but we now have the quarterly return of Lloyd's movement from the rough simplicity of Nile to the Great Lakes, studying the Register, which, in association with the the sixties and seventies, through the hydrographical conditions On reaching returns for the three preceding quarters, plain comfort and solidity of fare of the Entebbe they hope to enlist the sympathy Lowards framing a scheme of reveals the actual position. Whereas up eighties and nineties, towards the luxury of
nad study which wards of a million gross tons were launched and splendour in the ships of the
to complete.
Ay take within the twelve months, only just over twentieth century had reached, at the years to 400,000 tons were commence, leaving a very outbreak of war, in the Atlantic trade, Commenting on the subject The Times
ranber of
years, beavy deficit to be added to the adverse where international competition with writes For
been insufficient; last year it was ing figures
res of ships commenced and launched Rritish shipowners and the Store-backed in the four quarters indicate, the tide began German lines tandard which is likely to grow rice and there is little
of anything,
better in 1923. The great to turn at the end of the year, and there is
holds up a
balance of 1921. Fortunately, as the follow: keonest-particularly competition between summer supply of water for rect
VISH
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season. But although I. Pierre Loti, in OBTAINABLE a temporary phase of Anglo-phobis, re proached it for having clauded the skies of Egypt as well
the subnerging Temple of Philae it has been at the most a mitigation of water shortage.
The
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lower standard of wages, the volume of year by year to attract in large numbers, at bulk of flood water against the reason to hope that, under the infinence of a to survive as long as Europa continues barrage at Aawan. it is trans work in the enguing months will steadily the richer citizens of the United States of America. This movement towards greater increase. The figures for last year are në
luxury afloat has been mildly reflected in follow:
the Eastern and South American trades Commenced. Launcherl
and while generally speaking the basic No. Tons. No, Tons.
firat.class fares, plus war-percentage, Jan-Nov .......24 31,008 68 334,353
have remained stationary, fares at the April-June...... 21 34877 37 148,888 July-Sept. 30 82,426 73 307,232 Oct.-Dec. 78 231,187 81 260,588
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Total138 403,500 239 1051,058
EVERYWHERE
White Nile above on the Blue Nile and H. RUTTONJEE AND SON,
Khartum will doubt- repay the huge expenditure
express higher-values as special cabins leas been proposed for them by increa
and luxurious suites of rooms have been added to the equipment af passenger stramera, Such ships are frequently called Buating hotels, but, unlike hotels ashore, they must be entirely replaced at intervals of fifteen or twenty years.
which has
Bat it is to be doubted if they will have any sing the possibilities of local cultivation. effect, helpful or harmful, on the supply of Lower Egypt. The real difficulty lies lower down.
THE NORTHERN DESERT BELT.
Temporary variations in the level of the water in the Great African Lakes occur, and within recent years, from Nyasa to Lake Al- movementbert, the level on the whole has been failing. But there is much evidence that such changes have happened often at relatively short in tervals and have no great significance. There is no evidence us to the minfall in the tropics becoming less: over the high
andens.
plains of the equatorial belt the
pour down sudden and violent torrents of
the rainy the deys wet the ground rightly seasons come and go at their appointed the times. But about the Tropics of Cancer Northern Hemisphere and of Capricorn in the Southern, two grent belts of desert encircle the globe. The northern bolt includes the Sahara, the Sudan from the Bayuda stepped towards Lower Egypt Arabia, Syria, Mesopoturita, Persia Baluchistan, Bikaner, and the Gobi De sert.
In the New Wod it is represented by New Mexico, Arizona and South Cali- formin.
In spite of the more favourable record of last quarter, the outlook is still over- cast, because most of the new work has been undertaken at prices which leave nothing for overhead charges, much less a
But the poorer first-class passenger cau profit.in
on the
enormous capital repre still travel at moderate rates, and with and the general improvement in the public sented the yards, buildings, equipment of the various shipyards, Ship rooms of the large liners, which has
a part of this builders cannot go on indefinitely booking occurred orders which, in the
most favourable towards greater luxury, he gets more for circumstances, will show no profit, and which his money, This tendency towards may result in a loss. It is apparent that Insury in ships is worth a moment's the cost of shipbuilding, must be brought examination. It s not, in the opinion still lower before there can be anything of the writer, to be deplored. If it mountains
some reflects the passing of greater wealth into like a healthy flow of orders. In stances efforts have been made to readjust the hands of a greater number of indivi-
caper steel matters by using the cheaper plates and angles which can now be obtained from danis, it also indicates the willingness of Belgium and Germany. This expedient may those individuals to decentralise their work in British shipyards, but it is wealth; and the provsion of a generally ened at the expense of the employés higher standard" of architecture, decora in. engaged in the steel works of this country. tion, furniture, and accommodation in The development is a significant one. It ships must involve the employment of a shows the extent to which firms have been vastly greater number of skilled craftsmen driven by the present scale of Wages to in fitting-out yards. manoeuvre t to obtain work. To what degree This tendency towards claboration is the cheapness of these foreign steel platesected in the ships which cater especi and ungles is due to the depressed exchange ally for passengers of hambler means, I do not know,
but no doubt these are against the British worker. It would and aided by the universal demand for indeed, be interesting to ascertain to what improved standards, has produced in the extent German and Belgian steel plates and Australian and Atlantic trades a alnes of angles are responsible for the improvement ships which in space, ventilation, and in the British shipbuilding industry which fittings are not generally inferior to the has lately occurred, and how far the under accommodation provided thirty or forty, bidding of foreign steel manufacturers is years ago in the first-saloon accommoda- robbing our own maker of the opportunity tion of the liners of that day. of finding employment for their men.
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Britain and-Ireland-1,120,000......... - Abroad...
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The desert belts are regions almost with- out rainfall and with intense evaporation. Even a great river, threling its way through tire arid zone, loses immense quantities of water by evaporation along its course. Where, as in the case of the Nile, the course is tortuou
the banks for the
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--GROWTH OF THE DESERTS. term emigrant ship" bas become mean- ingless, for third-class accommodation in
Whatsoever be the cause, there seems first-class liners, nad equally in those
be a secular expansion of the desert to liner which cater for one-class" pas belt, at least in the Northern Hemisphero... sengers only invariably transcends the The rocky gorges of the Nile cataracts standard laid down by Government, regu--] 100 much larger than any at present. testimony to the passage of water on a
lations. To-day...the third-class passenger has his range of bathrooms, his dining: The Sahara is scarred and saamned with It will thus be seen that nearly one-half smoking, and music saloons, and the opan old watercourses and the dry beds of the ships now building are in hand in dormitory dock has been replaced by lakes, and there is similar evidence from British and Irish yards. It is even more cabins for two, three, or more occupants, Arizona, New Mexico, and Asia. interesting to notice that Germany leads in which at least a certain measure of all foreign countries. No figures are scali able to indicate the number, or size of the privacy is attainable. The extra cost of during the this improvement bas been met partly hips begun in German's post lovd by an increase in the rates of passage
quarter which has just
that,
The
Colonel H. de H. Haig, in the current number of Discovery, reminds as that the deserts were the centres of past empires. great nations of antiquity-Assyria, Persia, Phenicia, the Hittites,
without all Bourished in Innds now sufficient rainfall, but which, with abundant water supply, would easily produce two crops annually.
and
vessels of 85,487 tons were launched in the improved administration at head-quarters. (artbage, the Aztecs and Incas
The old caravan road from-Tripoli to Lake Chad now passes through a waterloss desert, but all along its length shows the remains and of Homan stone buildings, wells, walls, and
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last three months of 1922, there are still under construction 109 ships of 416,081 tons. The presumptiondition, the part of
that
this is an under-estimate de
In
For the first time for ten years Danzing has in hand nine steamers of London's debt showed in 1920-21 a sub- 17,700 tons. It is evident that Germany instantial increase, the total at the end of rapidly replacing the tonnage which also the financial year being £105,787,706, lost in the war, for during the past year in ing twelve months.
she not only put a large number of new shins £7,419,843 higher than" during the proced- paved roads. In Roman days North Africa Garden, on Motor Read at Magazine Asp..
ships of
of older construction in the open
in this
to the water, but she bought a great number of
especially market, and
country: At the end of June last she possessed 1,783,000 tons, and at the end of the pre-. sent half-year she will probably have on the register about 2,000,000 tons-practi- cally all of it modern, efficient, and cheap
tonnage.
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Gross Tonnago Tons Steam. Motor.
100 and under- 500
600
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1,000
2,000
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2,000
3,000
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20,000
25,000
25,000
30,000
30,000
40,000
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of
40,000 tons and above
0
Total... 277 20
of 20,000 tons
That Germany is not confining herself to the construction exclusively of medium- sized ships is indicated by Lloyd's Be gister. The ninety-five vessels, which she a building include seventy-three ranging in tonnage from 3,000 tons, downwarda,. but the remainder comprise three ships of from 6,000 to 7,999 tons; twelve of about 2000 greater tonnage each; four of from 10,000 to 14,909 tons; one of
to 19,999 tons; and two
each,
while besides smaller craft, slso has in hand a ship of maximum size. In fact, the
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was a vast granary, with numerous and wealthy cities, and an old Arab saying ró- lates that it was once possible to walk from Meccs to Morocco in the shade. Mesopotamia was once the most fartile re
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Sven Hedin and Sir Aurel Stein have reported, the presence of extensive rains, temples, abrines, and mummies in the Gobi deserts of Central Asis, in re gions that are now waterless. It seems a fair inference that the homes of old civilisations, so many and so great
could not then have been in their
present
desert condition Colonel
advances the theory that the world is actually drying up, mores and more quantities of water being looked up in the depths of the earth as vegetation chemical
German and Danzig yards, which is often ignored. About 390,000 tons deep shaft for a minedible to sink a
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All these vessels are not, however, being turned into minerals or by direct only really big ships building abroad at built for this country, consideration combination. It is now this moment, apart from twe in Italy, are the vessels in The assumption that the Treaty of of shipping is being completed for foreigners water, and be doubts if the bulk of much and the British Dominion. The amount of buried watch This conclarion, how. brought into active circalation again. Bowever, and sen power is already
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of TANGLISHMAN-Fully Experienced in the benefit of low wages, for her seamen, the British mercan it can never terranean stores of water. The surface Dacconstancy, Office
limitless
Management, like her men aahore, are working for ex- hope
to maintain all the yards of this the wide oceana gives an almost country in coodingly small wages, and they are, cou
work, full
and shipbuilding
field for evaporation. It is more probable Imports and Exports, and Secretaria (Com firms are compelled to look abroad for that the present phase of growth of the pany) Work, desires POSITION in Hongkong. moreover, working hard.
orders, It is all very well for some Labour mothern desert band is only the slow swing or Outport, Box W.L, c/o Daily Press Office. leaders to suggest that British work of long-period pendulum
man holds out for high wages the of this country forward with will sooner or to come.
Industry, and
Line in
IMPORTANCE OF FOREIGN ORDERS. Reverting to the position in Eritish and g Irish yards, Lloyd's Register reminds is later be forced
shipowners that we have under construction & con orders.
It.
siderable number of large steam and is end like ship-operating According to the provisional vital
shows, apart from twelve small sailers
statistics for 1927 issued by, the Registrar motor ships. The following statement long run work will go where it can be done General the birth rate for England and most efficiently and most cheaply. There Wales to the lowest recorded, except in hand, the size of the steamers and are fortunately, no craftemén in the world during the war years 1815-1918. The moter-vessals now building in this country? to equal those to be found in British and death-rate, however, is higher than in
(Continued at fork of west column.) Irish yards.
1921
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