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THE SUEZ CANAL TO-DAY & YESTERDAY
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The
The project to cut a water- way linking up the Mediter- ranean 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 reason that en- gineering skill essential for such a colossal enterprise was non-existent in the days of ancient mariners.
Nevertheless, the practical
Thongkong Telegraph. necessity of a waterway linking
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HONGKONG'S RICE THERE are indications that
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 Fort Said. The Mediterranean is at upper 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 fake..
in- with.
cutting down the voyage by to raise the money through £700 loaded for a return jour- llan pressure, they ceased to be ney through the Canal. Liners so, it would make no difference. many weeks, re-inspired owners issuing lotterics.
Should the Germans seize the The British Government at carrying passengers pay appro- of steam ships still further to economise fuel and time in the first refused to take the scheme ximately 1/9d per head. The company's funds and stocks in voyages out East. Interest re- seriously, many statesmen be- Company considers the percen- Paris, it would not affect the vived for economic reasons in lieving it impossible to excavate tage charged in dues is small situation. The Canal continues the ancient idea of cutting a a channel in the sand deep when compared with the value to carry frequent British car- waterway from the Mediter-
goes to the Near East and first-class price-profiteering ranean to the Red Sea, and enough for large ships to pass of the cargo.
remem- everything is normal save the through, but the far-sighted It must always be ramp is in progress concerning eventually a Frenchman possess. 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. succeeded in subscribing £4,- dividual enterprise, and was Greck and Jugoslav traffic, the prices of Hongkong's three prise.
080,000 and obtaining 44 per fostered by two nations, France has, however, recently grades of rice had increased by
cent. of the Suez Canal Com- and England, with the former creased. Greek
trade three dollars in the course of a
In 1859 the idea to cut a retail
these owning the major share and Red Sen ports and Indian Ocean shares. When pany's few days. Yesterday
shares were. first put on the being charged with the con-
ports is reported booming. prices showed another substan-waterway through the Isthmus
of Suez to connect the Mediter, market in Great Britain there struction of the Canal under de
Italy's position, now she has tial advance.
was not a single application on Lesseps.
entered the war, has changed It appears that those in the runean with the Red Sea, was conceived by the French en-
the Stock Exchange. ·
To-day the Canal is
com- to her obvious disadvantage; position to control the market gincer, Ferdinand de Lesseps.
To-day it is impossible to pletely under British and EgyP- she is debarred from using the need only the flimsiest, and The majority of sailors to-day 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
reduces
of 11,200 of the waterway, in a position, Cape of Good Hope route is also Lakes Monday it was declared that re- which 21 miles are in
tif taken around the in fact, to say which ship shall closed to her by British com- ports of the border trouble in Bala and Timsah, and the Bitter miles,
mand of the seas. Indo-China had. frightened them Lakes, with the width varying Cape), to 6,300 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.
varying fuel. approximate depth means that they were pro- from 33 ft. to 40 ft. It took Towards the upkeep of the under French management has vided with a cheap excuse
ten years to build and was Canal, and for interest on share so far made no difference to the has been successful from its in- for exploitatión. 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
for £16,000,000, and so little faith whether loaded or empty. In- in its co-operation with the military authorities. but was displayed in the project stance a 5,000-tons cargo car- British
that de Lesseps had eventually rier would have to pay about Even if, under German or Ita-
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-
largely
is
Indo-China on
its supplies of rice,
as the situation. concerning the importation of rice from that country has remained un- changed for some time past, the argument that Monday's reports of border strife could affect the position sufficiently to warrant such big price increases is un- convincing.
voyage
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The fact that the Canal is
The Suez Canal enterprise
Paris Is Now A City Of Empty
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 the Colony's most important commodity, and a daily neces-
Shops And
German Refugees
From A Correspondent
Writing from Lisbon
This picture of Paris underments, hotels, cafes to remain girls walked off and left the officers
most German heel was given me open, although
fits; besides increasing twenty-. years it has made amazing pro-
fold the exchange of goods and services between the East and West, it has also brought vast sums to its shareholders. The original shares normally carry |200 per cent. interest, and n [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 Isince its opening amounts to ap-
proximately 45,000,000.
In a year of peace 6,000 ships. use the Canal. The passage shopat
Geiman officers and soldiers may takes about 18 hours at a speed be seen in groups of eight or ten, of between B and 10 knots. Frenchman recently ar-owners have tried to persuade
their conquerors that since they carrying cameras and field-glasses, Powerful electric reflectors en- aity for more than nine-tenths rived from occupied France.
French citizens seeking to have nothing to sell they had walking the streets. There is pracubic ships to travel by night.
tically no traffic, for there is no of the population. It is, there-
Great Britain's ships make most few fore, of the utmost importance that pass to the unoccupied zone, he better remain closed.
petrol. The exception is a
uso. of the Canal, taking nearly rice should be made available at said, have to go through an al- Cabarets must also be open, al-offcial curs.,
The French walk as though they half of the 30,000,000 tons of prices which the poorer classes of most endless series of formali- though when this order was first Chinese can afford. It is consoling to kitow 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 Germans But the German den is still to the problem with vigour; it needs to which takes them only to Vichy. Frenchmen
nage in normal times the other bo. Oficial price controlling is not They are allowed to take just cabaret girls. Then
decided that the Frenchmen should make Paris look, as always a satisfactory solution, but sufficient funds to do this. be barred from all but three small Paris of old, to give a good impres nations were Germany, Holland, if the authorities can work out a
sion to the thousands of refugees Franco, Italy and Japan, whilst At Vichy there is a similar cabarets.
from the Rhineland and North-West the smaller nationa aggregated scheme · which keeps the price of
Frenchwomen are allowed every Germany who have gone to Paris to about a tenth of the total ton- rice within the pockets of these who inquisition before they are al- cannot even afford anything else, lowed an oxit permit and only where. The Germans are extremely escape the British bombing.
One German to whom my in- and at the same time prevents vital enough money to take them to polite to everybody.
A typical case of the spleft of an formant talked said life in Germany their destination.
old Frenchwomen was shown re was absolutely unbearable. The old life of Parts is ended.cently when a number of shop girls people could not get any sleep. population could overcoine their pre-in spite of measures taken by were inet by German officers and The refugee problem was becoming ARTHUR
reserve stocks from being depleted, it will have accomplished. an excel lent plece of work. If the Chinese
if it was tho
nage.
The BY
pose for a photograph. every day more serious, and to deal When they were all smiles: the, old with It the German authorities had
judices against unpolished rice, which actually contains more nutri- the Germans to give the im-asked to ment than the polished, commodity, pression that it still goes on. and at least two it la judicious mix-
The Nazli 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,
woman walked up and told them special offees in centres, where the LAMSLEY commercial establish- In the streets with such people. The heavy.
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