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We note with much regret that you ohjeet se the reclamation of the marshy land in front of the village of Talpa (Tam Chai)
This work has been going on for over one year without any protest whatever on the part of China, As already explained in
previous meneranda and meetings, the reasons which led to the proposed reclamationa around Radno wara te render possible dredging in the neighbouring localities by securing a way of
rapidly and economically di-charging, the products of such
redging which, if thrown into the high sea, would be carried hack by the tide to the original plɛers.
In the same way, when drawing up a scheme for the dredging of the onmol connecting the inner harbour with high sea no as
to enable acest - oing steamers to utilize the harbour, it wan
also necessary to study and determine simultaneously the local- rush Hundying, having in violes the same testngel and team
bangla dema ufatu te
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ftiến my nich to throw the Becuota šrдthe dredging of the
art of the a-nal from the side of the high son to near the curva on the side of the inner harbour, bearuse the dredging is te com ence from outride to inside ; and, to throw the pro- Aucts of the dredging of the art of the canal from the curve to arra, the only place which tealmically and practically could be selected – the marshy land in front of the village of Talpa wag oìonen. The reasona which led the engineers of the Harbour Werke to make this selection were briefly the follow ing : The canal has to be dredged in such a way as to be comm pleted nearly at the same time as the harbour, not only to enable the utilisation of the harbour, but also to avoid the destruction of the worke done in the inner harbour through the dafective course of the waters, To obtain such a result As the canal is very long and the silting is not unifəm in all its length
the dredging wwet be made, at least, from two differmt peints at the name time : in the entrance on the ido of the sau alŭ in the curve on the side of the inner rhour, where at present only very mall beats eɛn pass,
The dredging in this locality must be made with power- Valsinen, which will throw the mud inte lig
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