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CHINA FROM DAY TO DAY
Eight Raliway in Shens-For Hal Rallway, in north-western the purpose of facilitating coal Honan. The line will be 120 4 (40 transportation in northem Shensi, miles) long. An engineering corpa the provincial government has has been dispatched to make sur- cpproved plans for the construc- veys; construction work is expect- tion of a light railway to link up ed to be started in two months Mislenyang, a prosperous cify at
the north bank of the Yellow River, with Tungkwan, the coal "producing district
Shenal
NEW RAILWAY FERRY 'AT HANKOW
northern Pelping-Hankow
Canton- Hankow Raliway Administrations ure to arrange with the Planning
Rolling Stock Needed. In order Committee of the latter line for
Wuchang.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1935.
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ENGINEERING ANd Building
RAILWAYS IN
THE F.M.S.
Increase In Revenue
The anual report of Mr. D. E. to meet the demands of increasing the institution of through traffic Ellas, general manager of the traffic on the Tientsin-Pukou between the two rallways by oper. Federated Malay States Railways Railway, the Administration of the ating a ferry service across the "which covers the operations of the Railway has petitioned the Minis- Yangtze between. Hankow and year 1934, makes gratifying read- try of Railways for authorization
Lig. following the long spell of to purchase additional rolling stock SZECHUAN-HUNAN HIGHWAY' depression. Revenue shows an in- during the
present year. The
Surveys on the projected Sse- crease of 24.87 per cent, over the plans of the Railway Administra
chuan-Hunan Highway between 1933 figure, whilst expenditure tion call for the purchase of 10 Chungking and Changsha, now in locomotives and 300 freight progress, will be completed by the wagons. It is understood that the end of November. Construction petition has been approved by the will then start so that the road Ministry.
may be finished next April.
Lung-Rai Rallway.-A loan "for $4,850,000 from a syndicate of Ave
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NEW BRJUGES FOR TUMEN RIVER The two railway bridges over the banks has been arranged for the Tumen River were to be completed extension of the Lung-Hai Railway by Oct 20. The Chingain bridge. iter. Sian, the present terminus of measuring 500 metres.
and "the
the line. to Paocht, western Shens!, Shunchieh bridge, 230 metres long. It is learnt at the Ministry of will be ready for trate this month, Rathways. The contract was sign- Another bridge is being built ed in Shangha: on May 21, by Mr. across the Tumen by the Korean Tzeng Chung-ming, Political Vice Government-General, while the Minister of Railways, representing the Ministry of Railways; and the banks' representatives
Survey Completed-Surveys on the projected rallway linking up Pengpu station of the Tientsin- Pukow Railway, and Chengyang. In north-western Anhul, have been completed under the direction of the Ministry of Railways. It is understood that construction" work will be started on the section be tween Fengpu and Loho, station of the Loho-Hotel section of the Huainan Hallway. The total cost Is estimated at $500,000.
Canton Swatew Rail Link- Kwangtunk military authorities ere taking steps for the construc- tion of a rallway joining Canton and Swatew. The cost is esti- mated at about $15.500.000. There was" suggestion to apply for a portier of the British Boxer In- demnity Funds, but this plan was ruled out owing to the fact that the Ministry of Rallways would have no control over the proposed line, which is purely a provincial project. At present people travel between Canton and Swatow by boarding coasting steamers Hang rong
at
of
Isuchow Station. In view the importance of Hsuchow elty as a railway Junction and in order to meet the increasing demands for traffic, the Tientsin-Pakow and the Lunghal Railway Administra- tions will jointly bulid a large railway station in the city. The total cutlay is fixed at $150,000, of which two-thirds will be borne by the Tientsin-Pukow Railway Ad- ministration and one-third by the Lunghal Railway Administration. The planning of the station will be entrusted to the Engineering Bureau
the Tientsin-Pukow Rallway.
National Road Construction Bureau of Manchukuo is planning to erect SIX concrete bridges, Korean authorities five others.
and the
are to erect
LOCOMOTIVES FOR MOUNTAIN
1.
way has placed an order with The Iranian Government Rall-
Messrs. Beyer, Peacock and Co.. Manchester, for four Barger Garratt articulated steam loco- motives for the heavy mountain section between the Caspian Sea and Teheran, which contains 40 miles of 1 in 36 grade. These new high-powered engines Wiil rank as the largest built in Europe.
cent.
(excluding renewals contribution) "was decreased by 12.34 per
The net result of this improvement
is a credit balasice of $1,574.757 for 1934, compared with #1 loss of $2,039,910 in 1933. Just under five and 2 half million passengers more than in the previous year, were carried, almost a million and goods earnings, at $5.256.109, showed an increase of $1,267.878. of improved economic conditions or 31.79 per cent., which is eloquent in the country, and also of the effectiveness of measures taken to attract business to the rallway, despite the absence of any real attempt to regulate the intense and uneconomic competition that persists on our roads." At the July meeting of the Council, the Transport Licensing Bill, designed to deal with the problem of road competition with the railways, was introduced. Although the enact- ment has definitely become part of the laws of the FMS., the ma- chinery for its administration has not yet been created, and why no one seems to know. Thus we have in the FMS. the anomaly of a Government spending millions on motor roads and forcing its own railways, on which $235 millions of capital have been invested, "to accept" rates and fares, "which in many cases barely cover the cost of movement." because of the rapid extension of facilities for transport by road.
ARTICULATED VEHICLES
INVENTION
"Mechanical Horse" Motive Unit
turntable
A good deal of invention has been expended on the design of articulated vehicles, those which a motive unit at the front carries the forward end of a two- wheeled trailer, on a located over its rear axle. In one an ingenious method of coupling the motor unit to the trailer has been evolved. It is designed to eliminate a deficiency of this type of vehicle, in that the front end of the trailer must either be aml- circular or set back a long way from the rear of the driver's cab so as to give clearance between traller and cab when the vehicle
a whole is turning a a.#
corner.
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Britain's Coal Resources Reviewed
WORLD'S PRODUCTION COMPARED
the
has often been shown by statistics and statements, not un accompanied by hyperbole, growth of Great Britain la an in- dustrial country was mainly dua to our native resources of cbal and to the ealy date at which.. these began to be worked. It has equaly been emphasised that in more recent years, and especially terprise of other countries and the since the war, the increasing en-
greater use of competing fuels nave deprived our own coal indus- try of the easy sovereignty it ones possessed. Matters have not been
most neary concerned to recog, made easier, by the failure of those
nise this fact. It is a pity there- clearly emphasized in fore that the position is not more
teenth annual report of the Se- the four-
cretary of Mines for the year end- ed December 31, 1934, and "that stress has rather been laid on the improvement that has taken place since the recent lean years than on the fact that some markets we once possessed are now occupied, probably permanently, by others This is the more to be deplored since at the present time therez 19. indication that further trouble between the mine owners and miners may possibly recur, up has recurred in the past, and that the true facts of the case are not realised by either party to the
equal.y regret the conditions un dispute. While, therefore, we may
often to exist, and appreciate the der which the miners have too
deficulties with which the minie owners are faced, we must instat that the way to recover such pru. sperity
is still avafable is through co-operation and negotia- tion, and that, even the apprehen- sion of a strike would be httle less than disastrous, t
疑想
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THE OUTPUT AT HOME With this proviso the position as disclosed in the report is fairly encouraging. The output of coal in Great Britain during 1934 was 220,750,000 tons, a figure which was nearly 13,660,000 tons, 12,000,- 000 tons and 1,250,000 tons more than in 1933, 1932 and 1931 respec- tively. This welcome improvement Is, however, largely attributable to increased industrial activity. at home, where the supplies were equal to the average for the years 1930-31. The increase in foreign coa; shipments was small and to those countries with gold curren-,
may perhaps be more clearly stat- ed by saying that the world pro- duction of coal was 8 per cent or 9 per cent higher in 1934 than . 1933, while in Europe it was 7.2 per cent. higher, Russia showed an increase of 25 per cent., Ger- many 'an increase of 13.7 per cent., the Saar an increase of 7.2 per cent, Po.and an increase of 6.9 per cent., while there were also small advances in France, Belgium and Czechoslovakia. On the other hand, the production in the No. therlands fell by 1.9 per cent. Ex- tish exports increased to 57,000,000 tons in 1933. bons, compared with 58,680,000 This improvement would probably have been greater but for the severe restrictions im
Moreover, the percentage of the posed by Germany (ast aut'imp total exports shipped to France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ger-. many, Italy and Switzerland fell from 57.4 in 1930 to 44.8 in 193 thus illustrating the injurious effect of the restrictions imposed by gold currency countries. The is unfortunate in that this loss has occurred in some of our most accessible markets. On the other hand, the percentage of exporus to those countries with Which trade agreements have been ne- gotiated has risen from 18.7 to 31 during the same period.
CONSUMPTION
The
At home the coal consumption increased from 148,333,000 tong in 1933 to 161,500,000 tons in 1931, Improvement was specially no- table in the iron and atasi indus
4,000,000 tons, while in the elect- try, where the increase was marly ricity industry, the gas industry, and on the railways it ruse by- 750,000 tons, 500,000 500,000 tons, respectively.
tons and
consumption per head of po- pulation was 57 cwt., compar- ed with 71 cwt. in 1934 and 89 cwt. in 1913, the latter figure indicating to some extent the advance that has been made in more economie utilisation. As regards "treatment," benzol and creosote are being obtained in increasing quantities from gas works and coke ovens and on smaller scale by low-temperatur: carbonisation. Hydrogenation has also been started at the Bling- ham works of Messrs. Imperial Chemica, Industries, Limit:d, and between February and July of this year this plant had marketed
motor spirit produced in th's way.
METAL MARKET cles was less than it has been 6,000,000 gallons of first-grade
IN CHINA
Japan's Attempt To Oust Britain And
U.S.A.
Rail Survey Work-Headed by Mr. Wu Hstang-chi, an engineering corps of 50 left Yushan, the present western terminus of the Cheklang-
Last month some twenty mem- Klangsi Railway in eastern Kiaugsi on June 1, to start surveys on the
bers of the Iron Business Society, the Five Metals Society, and the last section of the line between In this new design the coupling
Iron Trades' Association of China, Nanchang, provincial capital of itself operates partly to withdraw Klangsi, and Pingalang, mining the trailer from the tractor when
were guests of Japanese metal in- area in western Kiangsi,
terests, and in a four weeks' tow The rounding a corner but brings it of the industrial areas of Japan survey work is to be completed in forward again when on three months.
the were shown the capacity of their straight to within 6 in of the back. enterprising neighbours to supply of the driver's cab. The impor-
the needs of the metal market tance of this development les in the fact that the law limits the
of China. It was a private show,- sponsored, not by the Government, overall length of any vehicle and
but by the Mitsui Bussan Kalaha the diminution of the minimu and its affillated interests, with. essential clearance between tral- ier and cab is equivalent to in-
the object of educating the Chi- creasing the effective length of
nese as to their resources, and body. The articulated six-whe
with the hope of eventually pusn- ler is popular, and deservedly 50.
ing Europe and America out of a because it has a large load ca→
valuable market which they have pacity in relation to its cost and
long supplied. The Chinese metal goods market is asasted by the unladen weight. One such vehl-
Japanese a v.100,000,000 a year, cle shown, a furniture van, »bas and this the Japanese claim to an maternal capacity of 1,250 cubic be able to handle. feet-at least 60 per cent. grediër “ than the orthodox four-wheeled
Stechnen Hankow Rallway. - Survey of the route of the project ed Szechuen-Hankow Railway is now in progress. according to in formation from the Ministry of Rathways. The information states that the route of the line original- ly proposed would have encounter e many mountains and work would have been very difficult to carry on. Now the Ministry is contemplating a change of the route and making a survey along the Yangtze Rive.. As soon as the survey of the new route is com- pleted, decision will be made as which one will be adopted.
van.
Tatung-Puchow Railway-In or-
A special type of articulated de to facilitate through transpor-
vehicle, of course, is that in which tation with the Lunghal Railway the motive unit is a “mechanical as a means of developing Shansi horse. This type of vehicle sur province, General Ten Hal-shan. passes al others in its adaptabil- Director of the Taiyuan Pacificaity of what is called inner zone tion Headquarters, has decided to transport, for short distance haul- build a branch line of the Tatung age, for work about docks and Puchow Railway between Yun- railway goods yards. cheng, southern Shansi, and Mou- chingtu, on the northern embarik- ment of the Yellow River, opposite the Shanchow station of the Lung-
This type is exhibited. by three makers with numerous examples of diversified application of the principle in
volved,
heretofor: The general position
NEW MOTORING PLEASURE
The de Normanville Safety gear, now being fitted as an opțional extra on Humber 16/60, 8nipe and Pullma cars, has received
Welcome from purchasers
WAZIL
籮
of these models, and a big propor-, tion of orders specify this gear. One owner, writing from Scotland, says: "The car was well worth walting for: I have experienced the delight of motoring beyond my Imagination." Incidentally, the recent. "Autocar" road test report on a Balpe fitted with de Norman- vide gear showed a maximum speed of over 80 m.p.h.-the high- est figure yet recorded under con ditions imposed with this car..
CANTON TO BUILD DOCKYARD
the Kwangtung provincial author- Plans have been mapped out by ties for the construction of a large dockyard at Canton. It will be located at the old dockyard at Whampoa.
• CAN COMPETE According to Mr. K. Tajina, - extended to influential Caliess naging director of the Mitani Bus- san Kalsha, Europe and America. plants of the country. The Ja
traders to inspect the leading steel
have so far monopolised almost pan Iron Manufacturing in ail the hardware sent to China, but thanks to the considerable
also supporting the caust. "China development which the Japanese steel, worth $25,208,000. Steel bars in 1833 Importen 350,000 tons of industry has made in recent years, were most important. Next came Japan is now able to competetin plate, scrap fron, thick plates. with Western products of heavy industry in China, and can be confident of victory. The Chinese are also alive, he said, to the ad vantages of cheapness and superiority, hence the invitation
and rals in that order, All these United States. In that year Ja were made in Europe and the
pan shipped hardly anything to China, but sent 229,000 tons of steel products to Manchukuo,
MACAO'S NEW
WATERWORKS
で
Work To Be Completed Next
Year
Macao, the Portuguese posses- alon near Hong Kong, is to have its own up-to-date waterworks plant by July, next year. On July 17, this year, contracts were sign- ed between the Macao Water Sup- ply Co. Ltd, to whom the Gov- ernment has granted a moz.opoiv for the supply of fresh water, and Messrs. Malcolm and Co., under which the latter frm was engaged to carry out the work of construc- tion. The new waterworks is to be built at the most easterly tip of the peninsula of Macas, where a reservoir capable of storing 550,000,000 Imperial gallons is now being built. One thousand work- men are engaged, and work is carried on day and night; several miles of railroad track have been laid, two locomotives imported, and dozens of funks chartered to transport plant and material Investigations have shown that the most practical means of sub pying the peninsula's water needs. is to utilise the fresh flood water which occur every year for vary
July, August and part of Septem- ing lengths of time during June
ber. The supply of fresh water. though Umited in time, is unlimit- ed in volume.
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