THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17,
1920.
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ZVEINESE EFLAMMENO 105 TRANS,
WEATHER OBSERVATIONS IN WAR TIME.
NIGHT FORECASTS FOR
ARMIES.
The 14th annual report of the Meteorological Committee for the year ended March 31 last was issued recently. It shows the considerable changes that were made in the methods of observa- tion owing to war conditions, and also the part taken by the service in war activities.
Reperts on the upper air requir ed by the Flying Corps neces- sitated reports giving the result of pilot balloon ascents. Arrange ments were, therefore, made for the observatories at Aberdeen, Eskdalem uir, Valencia, Fal- mouth, and Benson to make regular pilot balloon ascents and to report the results by telegraph. In September, 1914, also, an application was r.ceived for special forecasts to be supplied to the military authorities at sun- rise. and arrangements were made for obtaining reports from selected stations at 3 a.m., and afterwards a regular night service was inaugurated. The reports made it possible for the forecasts to reach their destination just about sunrise in time for them to be considered before the day's work was commenced.
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ALEX ROSS & CO.
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WORK OF SHIPPING MINISTRY ENDING.
MORE TONNAGE NOW THAN EVER.
One of the most noteworthy features of the work of the office during the war it is stated, was the issue of information about the average pressure, temperature, and density at different levels in the upper-air, prepared by Mr. W. H. Dines, F.R.S., from the ob-
sequently delayed. Something. servations which he himself ob tained at Pyrton Hill, or, subse.
:00, must be allowed for the in- ferior evndition of the ships as quently, at Benson Observatory.
compared with pre-war standards: The information was found indis-
but, fully allowing for this, the pensable for questions of ballis.
amount of tonnage is substantial- tics, and for many purposes of
ly greater than before the war. aviation, As evidence of the
The Ministry of Shipping still DELAY AT THE PORTS. immense development of the
provides direct tonnage for the study of the upper air, the report The Ministry of Shipping hascarriage of Government imports states that whereas in 1914 obser-done its work, and done itex rates of freight fixed by the vations with pilot balloons nerecellently, and it should now be Ministry last spring asthe equival- confined to South Farnborough, wound up. In the commercialent of the Blue-bank rates. Upayor, Aberdeen, and utter world it is maintaining a highly present the Government cargo is stations, the issue of halloons artificial state of things which practically all wheat, flour, maize, in 1918 reached the number of has all kinds of demoralising end sugar. It is all food-stuff 13,176 per month.
reactions.
bought, controlled, and distribui Owing to the inability of the The one great good service.jed by the Government. These Great Northern Telegraph Com-which it is doing, is that of ensur-[commodities come here at very pany of Denmark to supply in-ing cheap bread to the country low rates of freight, which prob formation during the war, the It keeps down the amount of ably leave the shipowner with a British representatives at Reyk- the subsidy which the State loss, and which are only maint- javik and Thorshavn obtained the has to pay for preserving us that ained because the Shipping Min- information and cabled it to this boon; but, on the other hand, ifistry have promised to adjust country, and the same arrange State control of the the ships them and to adjust them retro- ment had to be made in regard to were withdrawn, freights would spectively. Swedish information.
The grant in aid for 1914-15 was £20.000. whilst that provided for
1919 20 is £47.500.
TALL STORY OF A GIANT.
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NOTICES.
FOOK LEE & CO.,
always in stock, large quantities of
finolates, Wire nails, Pig Lead. Pig Iron, Steel Plates, Black Sheets. Galvanized Wire, Galod Sheets, Yellow Metal Sheathings & etc.
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Nos, & Hillier Street, and o
York Building. Chater Road,
STAR GARAGE,
Tel No. 3017.
49. Des Vœux Road]Central ¡HONGKONG.
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E. HING & CO.
SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANDLERS AND
HARDWARE MERCHANTS,
PHONE NO. 1116.
25, WING WOO' ST.
CENTRAL.
FRENCH LESSONS.
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15, Morrison Hill Road.
Just to hand: RIGS & CARPETS.
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be reduced all round, and, even Another power. which the Reference is made to a pro-if bread became dearer, many Shipping Ministry retains and posal for the transfer of the other commodities would became exercises is that of preventing Meteorological Office to the cheaper,
coasting ships from leaving the Department of Scientific and In- The State itself, in its foublefcuasting trade, though there is no dustrial Research, and it is added role of railway controller and direction to these ships as to what that the Committee have them shipping controller, affords a they may or may not carry along selves raised the important ques-striking example of the vicious the coasts. tion of the co-ordination of the expedients which have to be Outside the coasting trade there various meteorologica! services resorted to when competition has are fegular liners which run un- in the country.
Whereas the total of the sums
been destroyed:
(der general license from the The railway companies, unable Ministry with an obligation to brought to account in 1913-14 to carry goods imported into this placa space at the disposal; was £29,380, of which £3,396 country for transmission to some of Government cargo up to 50 per represented the cost of instru-other point on the coast, hand cent of the total. As our im- ments for the Navy, Air Services, them over to coasting ships to be ported foods come more largely &c., the corresponding total in
carried at railway rates, the rail- from some parts of the world than 1918-19 was £66.371, of which
the from others, the incidence of this £98,199 was spent on instruments.
companies pering difference in freight. The tax-frequisition falls heavily
upon payer has, of course, to pay this some lines, but upon other lines subsidy, as well as the subsidy it does not fall at all. on bread.
With regard to tramps, they Everybody knows how it is still are required to have a license that there is no longer com-from the Ministry for each petition between the railways separate voyage, and when the and the coasting vessels. The license is applied for the Ministry railway goods rates, thanks to considers whether the boat, is the generosity of the taxpayer needed to carry wheat or sugar are on the same basis as before or maize or any other food import, The the war, and a coaster could not and directs accordingly.
tramp's voyage is thus controlled,, Fossil remains alleged to be live on these rates.
otherwise But even if the beneficial com but,
and
apart those of a man 11 yards high were recently reported from an
petition between ships and trains from Government
Cargo, the American source, but a Daily cannot be restored, the mor Ministry gives no direction to the Chronicle representative who in-limited competition among ship shipowner as to what he shall themselves need no longer be bring to this country for private terviewed a distinguished an- thropologist of the British Society restrained. Ships differ from importers.
Lastly, the Ministry of Ship- had the thecry put forward that trains in this, that they can be the remains are probably those owned and run by comparativels ping is csing for the Government of a primeval animal, probably small mien. Indeed, a single ship programme German ships which one of the enormous vertebrates may be owned by an individual are under their management, in o far as they are not required which have been discovered in interested in saving a tide and in for Allied purposes of relief-now who naturally will be much more various parts of the world in certain strate by geologists.
scoring other small points in com-nearly over. These ships re- petition than a State Department present over a million gross tons. Parliament might well give an 200 or 300 miles away.
A statement of the actual hour or two to a discussion of position of of shipping control a'the relative advantages and dis- the present time will interest advantages of keeping the commercial men and others. Ministry of Shipping in being. It There is more tonnage in the has done admirable national
REMAINS OF MEXICAN **DEMIGOD 33 FEET HIGH!
These remains were found earn the village of Nanacampilpa, in Vera Cruz, and the natives (who declared the giant was related to the gods from whom they are fabled to be descended) had
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covered the remains with flowers world then there has ever been service, and its very profitable JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
upon a high catafelque.
Without details from Profess. before.
At the end of June 1914 'isposal of the standard ships
Cr Osborne or other authoritative the total steam tonnage of the suggests an appropriate occasion
members of the American Society world was 45,400,000 tons gross; for its swan song.
I refer to the moment. when, as to these remain," said the at the end of the June 1919 it was!
Reparation. Commission anthropologist, "the story is one
47,900,000 tons gross. But freights the
having allotted this country its are high. to accept very sceptically..
"Cases of human remains the Why Certainly not because final quota of enemy ships, it wil! length of which was 8ft. or even
a shortage of ships. Freights are become necessary to sell these to British subjects. as high as 9ft. have been definitely high because the ships cannot be vessels established," he said, "but a jump dealt with in the ports. From the Heart-burnings will no doubt be to 33ft is highly improbable.point of view of our imports there excited upon an occasion, so in- "Giants were known amongst is a 40 or 50 per cent. loss offteresting to the shipping industry the Aztecs and the Patagonians, efficiency in dealing with the ships in all its branches, but the even in the latter race about as compared with the pre-war minimum of friction will be en- sured if this delicate business is which so many credulous stories period.
All working days, and especial-left to A Department in which ly railway working days, ere there is universal confidence.. shorter; the imports cannot be
were at one time spread-only Average 6ft. high."
*Undoubtedly this is a tall
ator"
Then the Ministry might suit got away, and the ships are con-ábly make its bow...
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