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outer bar are quite different from those in the earlier plan. For the Gough Island reach also an entirely new plan has been made after first re-surveying the whole field. Only the above-mentioned principle is maintained; the general course of the new uniform channel is again through the junk-channel, but on account of the changes in the bed of this shifting stream, the new plan (B) is much different in details from the old one.
The direction of the normal lines is not the same. The depth of water at and above the upper end of Gough Island having much increased, the training works there, already before regarded as rather difficult (see my pamphlet of 1902, p. 14, below), have since grown more difficult; but of the front screen there, connected with Gough Island's upper end, the foundation is now made to a height of from 10 feet to 12 feet above the bottom, and has proved to be, and is, safe against the strongest currents, so that I dare say that the worst of the difficulties here have been overcome already. As to the increased silting in the junk-channel, I need not repeat what I said and wrote to the Board about enforced dredging thus rendered necessary.
With this enforced dredging, for which adequate measures have been taken, I dare say, not to feel apprehensive about the ultimate results of the plan in execution in the Lower Whangpoo, i.e., the new plan (B). My idea was, and remains unaltered, that the fairway in the Gough Island reach must be along one uniform channel, and so that the flood tides are forced to run up along the same track as the ebb tides do downward, and vice versa" (Report of 1898, paragraph 58). And my opinion remains just the same as in 1898 (Report, paragraph 36), "that channel must be the junk-channel," and this for the simple reason that such a uniform channel along the other way, the ship-channel, would be impracticable, even if not prohibitive in cost.
(Signed) J. DE RIJKE, Engineer-in-chief.
Shanghae, December 3, 1907.
DEPTH at Low Water on the Woosung Inner Bar from January 1, 1907, to Date, Calculated from Low Water Datum.
[This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty's Government.]
AFFAIRS OF CHINA.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Question asked in the House of Commons, February 6, 1908.
IPMS 4 MAR 08,
Mr. Wedgwood,-To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the results of the system of taxation of land values in the German Colony of Kiao-chau, he will consider the advisability of adopting a similar tax in the Colony of Wei-hai Wei, in order to make up the annual deficit of 7,000, and so relieve the charge upon the British taxpayer.
Answer.
There is already a land-tax in Wei-hai Wei, and I am afraid that the circumstances of Wei-hai Wei are so different from those of Kiao-chau that there is little prospect of obtaining any substantial increase from taxation of land in the former.
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Date Depth January 1 Ft. in. February 26 13 May 1 May 27 June 1.. June 24 June 29 14 ↑ September 12 13 6 October 31 13 0 November 15 12 6 November 30 12 0 Date Depth Ft. in. 11 B 11 0 11 € Q 12 6(Signed)
WM. CARLSON, Harbour-master.
Harbour-master's Office, Shanghae,
December 7, 1907.