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Field-Marshat Viscount Allen- Never was the pressing need of harbour development at Shanghaiby's frank admission of his failure Iore keenly illustrated than to pass the examination for the during this week, says the latest India Civil Service has excited Shipping and Engineering to hand. considerable interest. and has a strong gale caused many to ask whether our when, owing to which was blowing off Woosung, present system of the passengers travelling by the petitive examinations provides Empress of Russia were unable to the best method of recruitment embark. The consequence was for our public, services. It is that instead of sailing on Decem-interesting to note that Sir H. ber 27, as advertised, the Empress Llewellyn Smith, now on a special of Russia was delayed until the mission to India to reorganize Afternoon of December 30: The the India Government secretariat. steamer thus sailed three days also failed for the Class T. late on schedule time and al-examination, afterwards, how- though it is quite possible that ever, entering the Board of Trade she may make up this time duras an expert on labour matters.
If one of our most brilliant ing the remainder of the trip, yet. although the gale which was generals and one of our most dis- blowing and is blamed for causing tinguished. civil servants hav the delay, there is very go!|1en"plouged at this joint com. reason to lay the blame on the petition. doubt may well b lack of facilities existent at expressed whether there is no
accommodating something fundamentally wrong Shanghai for vessels in an anchorage or harin aystem of examination bour where, no matter what the which excludes two such men. state of the weather, the passeng-Success
mere literary ers would be saved much incon-examination is at best but venience and trouble when ema very poor test, and a barking with no delay to the ship-limited indication of the qualities Until Shanghai's harbour tacili-required to make a successful ties for handling vessels of large public servant. There is no toanage are improved or a new doubt that very often the bes port and harbour built at Hang- men fail at these examinations: chor Bay there must continue to the examination room requires a car such inconvenient delay to certain aptitude which a really ships and passengers owing to unsuitable though successful can the state of the weather.
didate may often possess. If open competition was the most efficient method of selection, it is strange that it has not been adopted in great business and commercial concerns:
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There are very few ports in the world of great import which can not handle steamers of almost any tonnage. Shanghai, however, is one of the very few referred to and, although nature has been
But the Civil Service examina- responsible for all of the handicaps tion has one supreme merit. which beset the port, as well as which, perhaps, outweighs all its those which make it of the great obvious defects, and that is it pro- importance which Shanghai is, vides the only effective yet, the carrying out of plans for against patronage and favour. the development of harbour facilitism, and satisfies the British ities, should be pushed cn with all public's passion for fairplay. But possible speed and the least when this is said the Civil Service possible time lost in discussing Commission might usefully revise those which are of themselves the syllabus of most of our impossible of execution.
examinations so as to give them The danger of ocean tonnage a more practical foundation. ceasing to come to Shanghal present it is generally felt that especially steamers, of the size of the examinations are too liter- the Empress of Russia and Asia,ary, too academic and afford is great and the damage to the
text whatever of the trade of the port would be more
most useful men in the harmful than is at first realized.
"new world" before us, the man On the Pacific and employed in with what may be called the en- the Far Fastern trade, vessels are gineer mind. In fact, to epitomize being placed which are ev r of the position, we might have less greater tonnage. The large trans- of classics and more mechanics, a Pacific companies are nearly all change which such a shrewd acquiring huge pasenger steamind as Lord Haldane's has for mers and unless the facilities for years advocated. handling or accommodating such
vessels here is radically improved
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seen that the question of barbour The day is now here when most development here must be pushed shipping firms deem it imperative with the utmost vigour to ensure that their vessels be operated on that no overseas tonnage, what- Schedule time and a service main- soever, shall be diverted else tained that in efficiency is equal where, and Shanghai as a port) to a train service which is operat-lose some of its importance and ed ashore. More especially is trade on the China Coast.
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INDUSTRIAL SHANGHAL
SOME DEVELOPMENTS INDICATED.
"Chins needs a definite policy in the pational transportation system, roads, railways, water- ways and ports avoiding unneces- sary competing lines and ports and development on rational not political lines" stated Mr. roa Heidenstam on December 9, when reading a paper before the Engineering Society of China in which he dealt with industrial and commercial features of importance to the future of Shanghai.
"In this connection in the unication schemes which figure in both the Government program. mes and the Consortium schemes, the scrapping of some of the projected lines, which are in conecessary "competition with others and with existing good water routes, or ate directed towards unsuitable ports, should caly be for the general good. There would be no unselfishness on the part of Shanghai ia Buggesting that the whole railway net of Central and North China be so modified that the traffic will converge to an diverge from the principal port."
Undoubtedly there is exceliont Bense in these suggestions and Shanghai both in regard to its situation as a
port and its industrial importance is 4 valuable centre and terminus by way of rail and water connection with inland parts of Chins and its large importance as a seaport places it admirably for a central' metropolis from all directions.
Mr. von Heidestan points out that Shanghai now begins to compare with the big centres of Europe or America with their complicated and highly organized forms of life and administration. Also that where the difficulty lies with Shanghai is that the city as a whole is not organized for tack- ling any big problem. If the for- eigners weat to work on sound lines, it will be necessary for them to gradually enlist and awaken Chinese sympathy and support for the future of Shang- hal and with regard to the future of the port he raised questions of import, viz, what about the sup- ply of fuel for power supply, coal and oil? How is Shanghai to get the cheapest supplies and to make itself independent of other countries? How much coal and oil will be required? What are the general conditions for indust- ries in Shanghai when compared with other centres? What about the food supply? How is the position as to building materials? Can cement be locally made and can one build a real,sky-scraper on the Bund? From where will the iron and metals be derived? Can structural steel he made in Shanghai?.
What are the chances of supply of timber from Japanese. Chinese. American and Russian sources ? What can North China supply? What about the general financial and economical institutions and measures required to lead and support the industries?
These questions are all of the utmost importance to the future of Shanghai and by studying them now with the intention of making improvements that will have their results in later years, something will have been done that will be of inestimable benefit to Shanghai industrial and econ- omical problems.
The labour problem as regards the loading and discharging of vessels at Shanghai presents
some aspects that will in the future have to be remedied. A few months back shipping was seriously embarrassed owing to the lack of coolie labour and should action be taken
now towards obtaining labour-saving devices which are such a com- mon feature of American and European ports, a step would bave been taken that would tend to avoid the same conditions arising again.
DEATH OF AGED NOVELIST. The death is announced, from her home in London, of Miss Jean Middlemass, the novelist. At the advanced age of 86 Miss Middlemass had continued her interest in things literary to the last. She began story-writing in early days and turned out a very long catalogue of novels, chiefly of the "society" type, sustaining a high level of interest and literary quality. Indeed, one of her last books, "At the Altar Steps," was quite remarkable for a writer of 77 years of age. Some of her incidenta were taken from life, and once when a successful anonymous novel was credited to her she denied the glory. Ferhaps her most enccessful story, judg. ing from editions, was "Fallon from Favour.
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