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GREAT ENGINEERING EFFORT IN YANGTSZE REGION
MR. DAVID BROWN'S TRIBUTE “AT HANKOW
It strikes me that China owes to the world the complete story of the aftermath of one
of the worst floods in the history of man, -the building of 3,000 miles of dykes.
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DAIREN
Kobe-An agreemant having been renched between the South" "Man- LONDON, Nov. 20. churia Railony Company and the The Officers (Merchant Navy)! Federation, Limited, whose offices Threa of the newest British Government General of Korea in are at 23, Leadenhall-street, Lon-motor-boats left England on No regard to the plan to construct a don, EC. 3, is organising a peti-vember 23rd for a long demonstra big harbour at Rashin, which is tion to Parliament, praying that a tion tour, in foreign maritime located at the northern extremity The tour will probab of Koren, M. Murakami, of, the public inquiry be set up to report countries. upon the conditions of service of ly lead eventually to the Far East. Railway Company, is now negotia- en- The boats are to be transported by ting with the authorities of the De certificated navigating and
the merchant steamer from port to port and are partment of Overseas Affairs about gineer, officers in
to be shown to the representatives the estimate to be appropriated in The following statement was; come to a country meeting with a
navy. given out at Hankow by Dr. David tragedy of such proportions. We understand that 10,000 signa- of Governments and important the new budget of the Company. Brown, the Chairman of China! For weeks the Press of the world tures to this document have al firms in various countries. They The plan of the South Manchuria Famine Relief, Inc., in the carried the food story, until such ready been received, and though represent the latest and most su Railway Company, is to make time as the attack upon China by we do not regard the multiplica-cessful attempt In the production
Korea with Seishin as the suj
The harbour plementary port. Japan took the front page, and tion of public inquiries with any of hulls particularly suited to the Rashin the main port in North
prima facie case petrol engine, and of engines spe~!
construction programme is divided very little of the flood or those enthusiasm, a
into two stages. The first stage is. measures to relieve the suffering seems already to have been made cially designed for marine work.
spread over five years and the of the people, or of the great dyke out for a change, and if action building activity has been told follows, a good deal of discomfort, China not only owee this story to if not injustice, will be relieved
The biggest of these boats a 200 second stage over four years. The the world, but owes it to herself, That there is some justification, for
and has beenture of Y40,000,000 and the second I heard the story for the first for an achievement that will rank the standpoint taken up by the b-p. tender, was built originally first stage involves a total expendi time from the lips of Sir John as one of the greatest pieces if bu- petitioners will be gathered from for the R.A.F. Hope Simpson, who played & con- man engineering the world has a paragraph in the Interim Pro-shown to have remarkably good ys0,000,000. It is proposed that
This boat, 57ft 6in. under this programme a port not- siderable part in this great human ever known should be broadcast, by gress Report of the Federation for speed and a high degree of sea- engineering effort, at a luncheon the press, the radio, the moving the period ended September, 1932, worthiness. tendered him in New York City by and the talking picture, and all; in which the rates of pay of the long, has a speed of 30 miles an inferior to Dairen should be maile. Flood Relief in China, U.S.A., of and every other means of inform various grades of oficer ruling in hour, and has performed editon the completion of the work, the
ably in very bad seas around the ing a world shocked and horrified this and in other countries are southern and castern coasts of progressively increasing volume of which I happen to be chairman,
Great Britain. It has been adopt exports from Manchukuo car It was a story of water, mud by the news of the flood, what has compared.
been done, how it was done, and and human effort; of a TRCO
ed as the standard tonder for the easily handled between"; "Dairen R.A.F., and 17 bosts of this type against time of an organization who did it.
have been supplied to units in this and the new port. Rashin, will built quickly, the mobilization of
Chinese Energy,
then play an important part in the the best engineering staff in China, and the building of an The world should know that this
country and abroad, army of man-power that ran well great piece of work was the result
connection of Japan, Kores and into the millions. An audience of of Chinese engineering and Chin
Manchukuo in transport and other business men was held spellbound ese energy; this is a statement
useful-purpose in the way of traffic: for over an hour by the romance made publicly by Sir John Hope
matters. It will also serve a of Sir John's presentation. A; Simpson, He further stated that presentation that dealt with a war the engineering on the entire three
connection between the East and against the elements; the ask of thousand miles of dykes was in
Europe. providing shelter and food for the hands of Chinese engineers, and millions of flood sufferers; a that, outside of his work which was Lealth programme to prevent typ entirely executive and the work of hoid, typhus, dysentery and those a number of missionaries, and other diseases that usually follow fow foreign supervising engineers, in the wake of a great catastrophe the entire effort was in the hands in, which A huge population of of Chinese. теп, women and children are caught as in a trap.
World Sympathy. When news of the floods in China were brandcast to the world in August of 1031-in all their horrible details, hundreds of millions of right minded, humans were horri- hed and there was an outpouring of sympathy such as could only
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The size of this undertaking was so stupendous that it staggers the mind. It is only when one realizes that the amount of earth moved and piled up in the form of dykes for a distance of over three thou- sand miles would build a dyke, three feet high and three feet wide, that would circle the earth four times at the Equator that one gets a faint understanding of what has been done.
Those of us who are fortunate anough to be on this tour of in- spection of the Yangtze River Dykes can testify to the quality. of work, the fine uniformity, the orderliness of the work, which spells a high degree of engineer- ing skill and great discipline in the organization of millions of workers.
Not; the least of this great pisco of work is the constructive phase of the whole effort, for.it has re- moved the dreaded fear of a re- currence of similar floods from the hearts of the Chinese people.
PEARL BRIDGE FATALITY
UNDER WATER CABLE. ENGINEER DROWNED.
Mr. To Choy Fat, underwater- cable engineer of the Jardines Matheson Company, Hong Kong, who was hired by the MacDonald, Gorman & Company to lay the electric,, cable of the Pearl Steel Bridge, was drowned on Friday, December 18th when the steel cablo atretched from Canton to Honam to which he and a bompanion, Bhok Chang, were suspended brcke.
To way swept away by the cur ront and drowned. Shek Chang, who was able to grasp the broken cable, was rescued. The body of the deceased was recovered on the 17t3 noon.
The cable was broken by the pressure of the Tearl River. -Can- fon: Sun....
cause of the intense foreign com petition.
Some Anomalies.
It is emphasised by the fact that a Dutch company has recently placed some of its ships under the, British flag to ensure lower ope rating costs. An anomaly of a more domestic kind 8 that, owing to recent reductions in wagen; the pay of junior officers is now lower then that of bosuns, carpenters and donkeymen, even without taking overtime into sccount. In addi- tion to the petition, the date for the presentation of which has not yet been decided, the Federation are also endeavouring to have the matter discussed by an Owner's Officers Conference to whose form- ation it is hoped the shipping or "Kemisation
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tervention
Comparisons. From this, it will be seen that it is more profitable to be an officer in the mercantile marine of almost any other country than of our own: In Great Britain a first mate The two other bonts are smaller, draws 167. 4. per month, but am one of them being a motor dinghy officer of corresponding rank in of a type also used by the R.A.F., the United States is paid 637, in and capable of a speed of 23 miles Denmark and Holland 271. 28., and an hour with a low-powered en- in Germany and Norway 201. Only the Jugoslavian first mate with gine. The boats have been pro gl. in worse, off than our own. The duced by the British Power Boat contrast between the United States Company, which set out from the first engineer with 73. 108. per mouth and our own with 197. 16s. first to secure the type of flat-bot is equally marked, and the figures tomed hull and high efficiency pro- 80 far to counteract the argument peller and rudder which would of some British shipowners that they cannot pay higher wages be give speed and control at com (Costinued on Previous Glumn) paratively low power...
With the progress of the barbour- work in contemplation, the South Manchuria Railway Company pro- jects to inaugurato a new steam- ship line between Rashin and Niigata Japan
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