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In the latest number of ping and Engineering (Shanghai) appears the following article on Hongkong Harbour improve
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in the harbour and seek stelter in the smaller iniets with the loss of two, and sometimes more, days in the loading or discharging of
cargo.
With winds from the north or south, the harbour of Hongkong. owing to its narrowness, is fairly well protected, while the distance of the weather shore with the wind from the east is o suficiently great to cause
serious inconvenience. With
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1919.
DAY BY DAY.
The case of a Chinese who attempted to smuggle 744 taels of prepared opium, and 25 taels of dross opium, came up for re-hearing to-day. Mr. Ryson, who appeared for the defendant. said that it was rather a hard thing for A young man, who bad just started his iareer in life, to be branded 19 & criminal. Mr. Lindsell said that the de- fendant's evidence was nct satisfactory, so he would not alter his decision.. The fine originally imposed would stand.
A FAR-EASTERN FALLACY:
Among foreign residents in the Far East the belief in purgatives as a panacea for half the ills of mankind is a firmly rooted, fallacy. At times purgatives are necessary. but their habitual use weakens the whole system and means u'timate ruin to the digestion.
The cause of most ill-bealth in the Far East is weak impure blood. For instance, most of the prevalent owe their beginning to stomach troubles which are so the fact that the stomach bas become too debilitated for want of blood-nourishment to keep up
with its work. And when the often as not Constipation sets, in digestion becomes disordered as
daily troubles,
Purgatives won't give any last-
A great deal of attention is attrong winds from the westerls and the body becomes poisoned present being given to the neces
quadrant, which blow from north-y the waste which should have been dispelled. Then the appetite when а sity of improving the approaches west to south-west
becomes capricious, and indiges- and berthing accommodation of phoon has landed higher up the the port of Shanghai, for an in-coast and is passing north of the tion, headaches, pains in the vestigation into which by export Colony, as is very frequently the abdomen, chest and back become engineers a sum of Ils. 300,000 case, the long stretch from the is- has been set aside. The probleinland of Lantau, at the westerning benefit under such circumst- here is one principally concerned extremity of the harbour, causes with depth: the necessity of a dangerous sea to get up which, deepening the approaches and even with only half-a-gale renders it dangerous for vessels to lie at the harbour itself to accommodate the large steamers which, it is their moorings. generally believed, will. within the next ten or fifteen years, be trading to the Far East.
acces. The only way to bring cure is to tackle the trouble at its and build up the blood, and thus foundation-the blood, to purify,
to revitalise the whole system. In an effort to give protection For this purpose there has never from this dangerous westerly sea, been a blood and nerve tonic so it has been proposed to throw a successful as Dr. Williams Pink In the harbour of Hongkong.breakwater from Green Island to Pills. Everywhere thoughout the the question of depth of water. Stonecutters Island, a distance of World these Pills are the stand- about three miles, with a cause by in hundreds of thousands of exiguous in many portions of the harbour, is not as way upon it. Green Island and homes where their value has been important as that of securing Hongkong being connected with proved, where their unique merit a high-level bridge beneath which is known, as a remedy for all dis- protection against the typhoons that visit the port during the vessel could pass, and Stone-orders due to blood and nerve
cutters and the summer and early autumn.
Kowloon debility such as Acaemia Indiges peninsula, probably at Lai-chi-tion. Neurasthenia, Malaria, low-level bridge Rheumatism and the aches and pening to allow Canton rivers of womer.
though
Both harbours are of great im-kok, with a portance to the development of the trade and shipping of China
the one serving the rich and populous-central provinces that surround the Yangtze basin and the other the equally fertile are of South China, including the great city of Canton and its hinterland.
steamers to pass.
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Apart from the expense of such project, which would doubtless be enormous, constructional dif- ficulties of a serious nature are known to exist.
The unstable mud is of con- siderable depth and stone-laden While the two ports are not in junks which have been experi- the least likely to come into mentally sunk in the vicinity are rivalry with each other, it is known to have entirely disappear- obvious that both require the led. even their masts sinking out utmost watchfulness on the part of sight. and the amount of stone of the authorities lest, by lagging required to build up a breakwater behind the developments of ship from the firm "botton would be construction. they be superseded, be prodigious.
stiff
as ports of transhipment, by some Such a breakwater. however, enterprising harbour lying within would make of Hongkong harbour a few hundred miles of their gates, a safe anchorage during typhoon a catastrophe that would cause weather where today a both to fall back to the position breeze from the western quadrant of mere ports of call fer vessels holds up all cargo work, and it in the coasting trade.
would appear to be the duty of In the case of Hongkong, while the Government to follow the depth is a factor of some impor- lead of Shanghai and set aside a tance, the problem of rendering sufficient sum to obtain the advice the harbour safe during the of the world's best experts as to passage of a typhoon is of the how the port can best hold its greatest urgency, since a storm of own in the strenuous competition this nature makes it necessary for the shipping trade of South for vessels to leave their moorings China.
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