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BIG FRENCH SCHEME: ARGUMENTS IN ITS FAVOUR
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Pivot of African System.
Speaking before the Chambering,, un pared day, ja u three days before the opening of me qire the World Economic Conference, oq ang pangal aga, et aq pat M. Daladier, the French Fremier. 'perdince' waaq daru unny Jokin said that productive public-work pire reservoir of raw materials, schemes, such as the building of a such as cotton, peanut oil, timber, Trans-African Railway," would be wool, rice and so on. All her raw one of the remedies against the cotton will be "Empire" cotton; crisis to be advocated by the French at the same time the natives, who Delegation in London. The project will have been made prosperous by of a railway across the Sahara has the combined blessings of the rail- received considerable attention from way and the irrigation works, will time to time, and especially since be a valuable "Empire" market the world war, when France, short for French manufactures, and even of recruits, was obliged to draw on for fruit, vegetables, and other from the temperate the reservoir of black man-power in delicacies. Seungal and Frerich West Africa. zone. During the war it took three weeks ar more to bring the black troops hy sea to France; if the Trans- Saharaa had been built, it would have required only five days to bring them from the Niger Basin to Marseilles. Such is the military argument in favour of the Traps Suharan, and it will almost cer- tainly be the decisive one if and when the project is adopted. The other arguments in favour of the railway are the following:-
1. The imperial" argument: Françe would be a far more im- pressive and more coherent geogra- phical entity than now she would stretch from the North Sea right down to the Equator, with nothing more than the Western Mediter ranean, a "French lake," between France-in-Europe and France in
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CONSTRUCTION
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Our climate calls for special in sulation of dwellings, and for this
asbestos, have
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not yet utilized.
ELECTRICITY IN ONTARIO
A FLOURISHING INDUSTRY.
BIG ORDERS FOR BRITISH special limestone for mineral wool apparatus and supplies ranked first
FIRMS
British railways last year pur chased 14,000,000. tous of coni, 210,000 tons of ralls, 220,000 tone of steelwork, 21,000,000 bricks. 17,000,000 cub. ft. of timber and tons of 4,000,000 sleepers, 8,000 paint, 62,000 tons of oil, and over 2,000 miles of cloth, Engineering.
THREE IMPORTANT ORDERS
For the interior finish of walls and ceilings, for partitions and floors, the Maritimes and Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia contribute great quantities of gyp sum. Asbestos also gives us light. fireproof insulating" covering for roofs. Copper, slate and other roofing materials are available,
For decorating and preserving buildings we have ochres to make paints, feldspar to give the glossy finish to interior tiling and many other ingredients of special finishes,
Electricity plays & prominent: part in manufacturing in Ontario. Among the forty leading industries of the province in 1931 electrical and central electric stations sixth.. Electric motor installation in the manufacturing plants of the prov ince had a capacity of 1,303,948) hp, which showed an increase of 372,000 h.p. in the four years ended in 1931. The industrial group which made the greatest use of elec tric energy was wood and paper, in which installations reached 437,360 h.p. Iron and its products held second place, having-electric motors installed with a capacity of 310,800. h.p, while anferrous metal pro ducts followed with 188,917 h.p
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I could in similar manner recall and vegetable products came fourth the materials used in the cups, with 132,319 h.p. Of the total plates and glasses from which you power equipment for manufactur- eat and drink, the stainless knivesing in the province electric motors. Denny Messrs. Williaan
and of daily use," the bathtub in which accounted for approximately 80 per Brothers, Limited, Dumbarton, and you wash and the soap you use in cent.
Forty leading industries produc- Messrs. The Fairfeld Shipbuilding it, compounds with which you and Engineering Company, Limit-cleanse your house and improve ed nearly 8 per cenb. of the total. your complexion, minerals we have manufacturing output of Ontario 3. The "civilisation" argument: ed, Goran, Glasgow, have sach re-
Electric apparatus and Africa is "the continent of the fu- ceived an order for a new paddle that take part in the making of in 1831. ture." and the Trans-Sabaran steamer for the London, Midland the cloth you wear, the Filaments of supplies, which came first, bad a Railway will be the beginning and and Scottish Railway Company's your electric light bulbs, your cook gross output valued at $63,773,155. the pivot of the future pan, cruising fleet on the Firth of Clyde ing utensils. It would be tedious This industry was followed by automobiles at 857,790,520, slaugh- African railway system.
From The new ships wil! replace the fo complete the list.
Caledonia; But, if we take a wider view, if itering and meat packing 856,977,585, Niamey. the possible eastern ter P.SS. Mercury and minus of the Trans-Saharan lines they will each have a speed of 17 we expand our survey to include pulp and paper 833,870,428, flour will run to Lake Chad, which in knots, and a passenger certificate not only minerals but the products and feed mili 852,802,419, and con- turn will be joined by rail with for about 1,500 passengers. Their and by-products of agriculture, tral electric stations $46,512,092.
Electrical apparatus and supplies. the railway system of the Belgian principal dimensions will be 220our forest products, fuels and water bad in the year moved up from
powers, then we begin to get the real, picture of what these assets third to first plar, which was in
1930 occupied by automobiles. mean to the future of Canada
*New Age.
Congo; this, again, will be linked ft. by 30 ft, by 10 ft. 3in. up with British and Portuguese Messrs Davy Brothers, Limited, East Africa (which would put Park Iron Works, Sheffield, have Madagascar within fifteen days of recently been entrusted with the ox Paris), and with the vast railway ecution of an important contract system of South Africa. Another for a large works in Poland; name.
Down through the ages man has the use of fuels. To-day, with thạ branch line of the Trans-Saharan ly, Messrs. Towarzystwo Staracho advanced in proportion to the ex- remarkable advance in chemical might connect West Africa with wickich Zakladow Gorniczych SA tent that he had learned to utilize manufactures of synthetic and the Sudan, Egypt, and Palestine. The order comprises a high-speed what nature gave him. At the plactic products, we may well be- Then there is the "crisis" forging press of 2,000 tons power dawn of the world, the stone age, lieve that we are on the doorstep of 2. The French "Empire Froe
according to the off-operated by a Davy air-hydraulic and the use of fire; later, the use a new age, the chemical-plastic age- Trada" argument. This says that argament when the irrigation schemes of the cial reports the railway would cost intensiser, also arranged for work of clay, wool, fax; then the slow in which our children will live to three milliard francs, to be spreading at 1.000 tons power and with advance of the use of metals, the see old materials converted to new Over large baseplate extension for hollow smelting of iron, the more and more and more economical uses, an era over a period of ten years. half this amount is represented by forging work. In addition, the rapid advanes with the development of new products, lighter, stronger, the cost of the railway material, press is to be equipped for osrtain of steel and alloys of steel, and more durable, more efficient than The work would give employment piercing operations, and will re- great discoveries in chemistry and we have yet thought possible.
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not to mention the (mostly) native gineering.
labour to be employed on the spot..
5. And then there is, finally,
work-En-
the argument of competitive pre- THE CONTE DI SAVOIA
stige. Italy, it is pointed out, has been planning for years to build a railway across the Sahara Leaving Gibraltar on May 17, the from Tripoll to Lake Chad. To Italian liner Conte di Savola reach- prevent italy from building the ed New York in 4 days 19 hours 10 "pivot" of the Trans-African sys-minute sailing time, giving an tem, France must hurry on
with average speed of 27.65 the Trans Sahayan.
Committee's. Find'ng,
knots.
Heavy seas and a strong north- westerly wind were encountered for the first two days, and the condi tions were still worse during the Such are the arguments used- third and fourth days, so that the with minor variations-by all the performance reflects the very great- advocates of the Trans-Saharan est credit on the designers and Railway. The strongest advocates builders of the vessel. The absolute' of the railway are the military speed record for the Atlantic cross- authorities, though it must be saiding is held by the Europa, with an that there are some military ex average speed of 27.01. knots, and as Colonel Bernard, as, in order to achieve the crossing" perts, such who consider the scheme thorough referred to, the Conte di Savoia ly unpractical, if not impracti- attained a speed, of 99 knots in the cable. Colonial "expansionists"- somewhat calmer stretches of sen, including men like Steeg-are in it appears probable that she will favour of the scheme; it is also secure the Blue Ribbow of the AB being pushed by the heavy indus-lantic as soon as the conditions are tries, who hope to gain by it; and favourable. A full description of various commercial interests, es- the vessel was given on page 343 pecially in Algeria have support ante and seg.-Engineering, ed the project. The French pub- lic, as a whole, which takes com- paratively little interest in colo- nial matters, is sceptical, and finds it hard to believe that a railway which has "to cross 1,400 miles of desert can pay its way. Neverthe less, the scheme has, from time to time, attracted the attention of French Parliamentary opinion, ".
MEDAN, Aug.. 5. and in 1928--that is, at a time
the conditions in the when German reparations in kind Pacific were strained, reinforce might have covered a large partments were sent up to Balik Papan of the cost-Parliament ordered aand Tarakan (Borneo) to protect detailed investigation into the pos- the important oil stations in sibilities Four missons com case of emergency.
The Government now states that posed of engineers, economiste,
DUTCH OIL STATIONS
COST OF EMERGENCY PROTECTION.
When
THE TELSIAI-KRETINGA RAILWAY, LITHUANIA
colonial officers, and other experts, the sending of these reinforce were formed, which investigated ments caused an extra expenditure. the Sahara, covering no less than of "between Fl. 300,000 and 400,000 20,000 miles during the course of their travels. A
Technically, the plan is practi- cable, it claimed that the Bagdad Railway in Transjordenis success fully overcome most of the pro- blems facing the Trans-Saharan The importance of the Telisi- the only question is: Will it pay Kretinga Railway, in Lithuania, its way economically The trans- opened last autumn, lies in the fact port will constantly be burdened that it gives a direct connection for by a "dead weight of 1,300 miles the port of Memel to the interior of waste land; and it would seem The line was projected as far back that only a heavy goods traffic→→ as 1920, and in 1923 preliminary like the trans-continental traffic in work was begun but owing to the United States could stand the failure to float a foreign loan the burden. The calculations that the Government was forced to build transport of a ton of goods from the Niger Basin to the Mediter: Tanean will cost only 16d. are primarily based on the hypothesis that the Niger Basin, when opened up, will be a great buyer and great producer. It is at this point that the arguments in favour of the Trans-Saharan become parti- cularly unconvincing,
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route will be able to develop freely. and through trafic from the port to Soviet Rui is expected to receive an impetus Engineering
the line with its own resources In 1925, a length of 56 km. (Siauliai- Telsiai) was opened, but the secoed section was not put in hand till 1928 for lack of money.
Tenders were, however, invited, but it was not until 1960 that a contract was let to a Danish firm this was for the length of 71 km. from Telsiai to Kretinga, The cost of the entire line of 197 km. has been Lits 34,000,000 The newne shortens the distance from North and East Lithuania to Memel by 60 km, and this, on the traffic, will mean substantial saving. ia operating costs. Towns on the new (Continued on Previoue Column)
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