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THE SUEZ CANAL TO-DAY & & YESTERDAY
The Suez Canal, once scorned as "a ditch in the
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THE prefix "Special to the Telegraphe Indicate news which is strictly copyright cations Urdinance 1918, Such news a
In used by the "gtongkong Telegraph" to
'under the previsions of the Telecommuni-
The project to cut a water- way linking up the Mediter- rancan with the Red Sea was in the mind of ancient traders long before the time of Christ, but the venture never materialised for the obvious
that reason gineering skill essential for such a colossal enterprise was non-existent in the days of ancient mariners.
en-
Nevertheless, the practical nsity of a waterway linking up the merchandise of the East with the Mediterranean coun- tries grew with the coming of civilisation. Mechanised trans- port, fast replacing the sailing clipper in the Eastern trade,
:
The western entrance of the canal starts here, at Port Said. The Mediterranean is at uppor
right. In the foreground is the new engineers' garden city of Port Fuad; in the background is Port Said, all built since 1859 on land reclaimed from a lake.
cutting down the voyage by to raise the money through £700 loaded for a return jour- lian pressure, they ceased to be many weeks, re-inspired owners issuing lotteries.
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HONGKONG'S RICE THERE are indications that first-class price-profiteering ramp is in progress concerning
tial advance.
:
The British Government at
ney through the Canal. Liners so, it would make no difference. carrying passengers pay appro- Should the Germans seize the
ximately 1/9d per head. The company's funds and stocks in Company considers the percen- Paris, it would not affect the tage charged in dues is small situation. The Canal continues when compared with the value to carry frequent British car- of the cargo.
goes to the Near. East and everything is normal aave the
It must always be
remem-
was
economise fuel and time in the first refused to take the scheme voyages out East. Interest re- seriously, many statesmen be. vived for economic reasons in
lieving it impossible to excavate the ancient idea of cutting a
a channel in the sand deep waterway from the Mediter- ranean to, the Red Sea, and enough for large ships to pass through, but the far-sighted | eventually a Frenchman poss£38- the Colony's rice. On Monday ing vision sought financial in Prime Minister Disraeli, after a bered that the Initial building fact that fewer vessels use the the "Telegraph" revealed that fluence to undertake the enter- great struggle in Parliament of the Suez Canal is one of the waterway and none of them
and with the Bank of England, world's 'great romances of in- German, or Italian. the prices of Hongkong's three prisc.
succeeded in subscribing £4, dividual enterprise, and
Greek and Jugoslav trafic, grades of rice had increased "by'
080,000 and obtaining 44 per fostered by two nutions, France has, however, “recently in- three dollars in the course of a
cent of the Suez Canal Com- and England, with the former creased. Greek trade with few days. Yesterday retail
In 1859 the idea to cut a
When these owning the major share and Red Sea ports and Indian Ocean pany's shares. prices showed another substan- waterway through the Isthmus shares were first pet on the being charged with the con- ports is reported booming.
of Suez to connect the Mediter market in Great Britain there struction of the Canal under de Italy's position, now she has It appears that those in the rancan with the Red Sea, was
was not a single application on Lesseps.
entered the war, has changed position to control the market conceived by the French en- the Stock Exchange.
To-day the Canal is com- to her obvious disadvantage; gineer, Ferdinand de Lesseps. need only the flimsiest, and The majority of sailors to-day
To-day it is impossible to pletely under British and Egyp she is debarred from using the quite often unwarrantable ex-call it the "Frenchman's Ditch." think of trade with the East tian military control, while the Canal and is unable to reach cuse for forcing up prices. On It is about 101 miles long, of without the Suez Canal which British Navy guards both ends her Abyssinian Empire. The voyage of 11,200 of the waterway, in a position, Cape of Good Hope route is also -Monday-it-was-declared-that-re-which-21-miles-are-in-Lakes reduces a ports of the border trouble in Bala and Timsah, and the Bitter miles, (if taken around the in fact, to say which ship shall closed to her by British com- Indo-China had frightened them Lakes, with the width varying Cape), to 5,800 miles with the use the canal and which shall into price-raising, which merely from 150 ft. to 400 ft., and an consequent saving of time and not.
The fact that the Canal is approximate depth varying fuel. means that they were pro-
from 33 It. to 40 ft. It took Towards the upkeep of the under French management has vided with î cheap excuse
was Canal, and for interest on share so far made no difference to the ten years, to build and for exploitation. It true
opened for transport in 1869. capital, tolls are levied on every actual situation. The French that Hongkong depends very The total cost of the work was ship passing through the Canal staff had proved entirely loyal ception, and in the last thirty largely on Indo-China
for £16,000,000, and so little faith whether loaded or empty. In- in its co-operation with the years it has made amazing pro-
military authorities. supplies of rice, but was displayed in the project stance a 5,000-tons cargo car. British
its
ne
is
mand of the seas.
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The Suez Canal enterprise has been successful from its in-
fits; besides increasing twenty-
the situation concerning that de Lesseps had eventually rier would have to pay about Even if, under German or Ita- fold the exchange of goods and
the importation of rice from that country has remained un- changed for some time past, the argument that Monday's reporte of border strife could affect the position sufficiently to warrant such big price increases is un- convincing.
It is not suggested that Hongkong is able to import all the rice she would like for cur- rent needs, but equally true is it that no shortage exists. Rice is the Colony's most important
Paris Is Now A City Of Empty
Shops And German Refugees
From A Correspondent.
Writing from Lizbon
Gal.
services between the East and West, it has also brought vast Isums to its shareholders. The original shares normally carry 200 per cent. interest, and a more recent issue carries 20 per cent. interest. A year's work- ing of the Canal earns profits running into millions. Already the British share of interest since its opening amounts to ap proximately £45,000,000.
In a year of peace'6,000 ships This picture of Paris under (ments, hotela, cafes to remain | girls walked off and left the officers
use the Canal. The passage most shop- the German heel was given me open, although
Geiman offlcers and soldiers may takes about 18 hours at a speed 8 and 10 knots. commodity, and a daily neces- by a Frenchman recently ar-owners have tried to persuadebe seen in groups of eight or ten, of between
their conquerors that since they carrying cameras and field-glasses, Powerful electric reflectors en.. sity for more than nine-tenths rived from occupied France.
There is prueable ships to travel by night. of the population. It is, there- French citizens seeking to have nothing to sell they had walking the streets.
tically no traffe, for there is no Great Britain's ships make most fore, of the utmost importance that pass to the unoccupied zone, he better remain closed.
petrol. The exception JK 11 few use of the Canal, taking nearly prices walch the poorer classes of said, have to go through an al-
The French walk as though they half of the 30,000,000 tons of Chinese can afford. It is consoling, most endless series of formali- to know that Government is tackling ties before they get a permit given serious troubles arose between were carrying a heavy burden. The shipping using the Canal in an
and Germans over boulevardiers are no more.
average year. In order of ton- the problem with vigour; it needs to which takes them only to Vichy. Frenchimen
cabaret girls. Then the Germans But the German Idea is still to be. Omelal price controlling is not They are allowed to take jus decktest that the Frenchmen should make Parls look as if it was the age in normal times the other always a satisfactory solution, but sufficient funds to do this. be baired from all but three small Paris of old, to give a good impregnations were Germany, Holland, scheme which keeps. the price of At Vichy there is a similar) cabarets.
rice should be made available at
If the authorities can work out a
Cabarets must also be open, al-offcial cars. though when this order was first
slon to the thousands of refugees France, Italy and Japan, whilat from the Rhineland and North-West the smaller nations aggregated
rice within the pockets of those who inquisition before they are al- Frenchwomen are allowed, every- and at the same time prevents vitailowed an exit permit and only where. The Germans are extremely Germany who have gone to Paris tolabout a tenth of the total ton-
cannot even afford anything else,
escape the British bombing.
One German to whom my in-
The
nage.
reserve stocks from being depleted, enough money to take them to polite to everybody, it will have accomplished an excol their destination.
A typical case of the spirit of an formant talked sald life in Germany BY old Frenchwoman was shown re- was absolutely unbearable. lent plece of work. If the Chinese
The old life of Paris is ended, cently when a number of shop girls people could not get any sleep. population could overcome their pre-- judicen
The refugee problem was becoming ARTHUR ngainat unpolished rice, in spite of measures taken by were met by German officers and which actually contains more nutri the Germans to give the Im-asked to pose for a photograph every day more serious, and to deat When they were all smiles the old with it the German authorities had ment than the polished commodity, pression that it still goes on. and at least use it in judicious mix-
woman walked up and told them special offices in centres where the The Nazis have ordered all they ought to be ashamed to talk British bombing was considered too ture with the white rice, they would make a big contribution to this end. shops, commercial
establish- in the streets with such people. - Tho|heavy, '
LAMSLEY