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nitrogen and oxygen with, how- ever, a small percentage of car. bonic acid gas, dust particles, The and aqueous vapour. latter plays the most important part of all in the formation of: cyclones, and in fact, all wes- ther changes.”
a house can be fitted. They have light is much desired by Chinese built our wharves and docks, our of all classes and, so far as I railways, telegraphs and tele-know, hydro-electric engineering phones. They have stored up the has not yet made a start any- water of this Island of Fragrant where in China. There are also Streams for the use of its steadily telegraphy, telephony, wireless growing population. They have broadcasting and other electrical lit up the whole Peak District inventions, of which the exploita with electricity, so that at night tion in China has only just he- one hardly knows where the gun, but the demand for which is lamps end and the stars begin, likely to be prodigious.
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very great: We in Hong Kong Kowloon to Calais! Moreover, the vast foreign can do much to supply this need trade of China results from the by training Chinese students in work of engineers. Almost all of British engineering standards and it is borne in ships designed, ideals at the Hong Kong Univer built, worked; docked and kept in sily. The generosity of the great repair by engineers. The steam firm of Messrs. Butterfield and navigation of China's inland Swire bas endowed the Taikoo waterways is another achieve. Chair of Engineering at that ment of engineers; and, espe-University; but it is for all Bri- cially on the upper Yangtse, the tish engineers and all British pioneers have surmounted not engineering firms in this Colony only difficulties but serious. dan to collaborate in making the En- gers. Railway engineering in gineering Faculty of the Hong China only dates from 1876. It Kong University into the signal
The article goes on to say that has made great progress, but its success which it rught to be. future is bound to be greater still; There is a unique opportunity be- if the tracks of typhoons in the and the day is sure to come when fore this Colony of becoming in- Far East for the past 30 years residents in this Colony will take timately associated with future were plotted on a chart, practical- through tickets from Kowloon to engineering developments all over ly the whole of the ocean area Calais, and return tickets at that. China through the malium of would be covered by them, and a Road construction in the Euro young Chinese engineers, who certain part of the land area; generally speaking, pean sense is only just beginning will have been trained in Hong though in China; but, now that engineers Kong and then go into all the typhoons break up on reaching have invented and are continual eighteen provinces of China, tak China. A few survive, however, ly perfecting the motor car, and ing with them an affection for and emerge into the ocean again saeing what a hold motor trans their Alma Mater and a true com on a N.E track. port already has upon the Chinese prehension of the thoroughness mind, the pressure of public opin- and the high ideals of British en- ion is likely before long to comgineering as well as of the pel regional authorities to build genuine friendship for our Chin- motor roads in all the Eighteen ese neighbours with which we in Provinces. Air-transport in China this Colony are animated.
Bastern Typhoons hardly yet exists; but it is bound to come, and we are already at Writing on the subject of work on an aerodrome for this Typhoons in the Far East," Mr. Colony. The idea of travelling Claxton says that they are, in the from Hong Kong to Canton in an general features, the same as the hour or less is sure to make a hurricanes of the West Indies strong appeal to business men; and the cyclones of the Bay of and, once airways are establish- Bengal and the South Indian ed, the flight from Hong Kong to Ocean. In the Philippince they many of the great cities of China are called baguios. will only be a matter of one, or at most two days' journey,
Sanitary Engineering Another enormous field for en- gineering activity in China, scarcely touched at present, is sanitary engineering, in which I include twater works, sewage works, anti-malarial work slum town-planning, and the like Then again, electric
Mr. Claxton says:—
"It may perhaps astonish you to learn that cyclones are caused by the rotation of the earth upon its axis, of this hope to convince you presently but we must first consider the conditions necessary for this rotation to generate cyclonic ection
mospacres we breathe consists paly of
A Striking Feature As regards the weather during the approach of a typhoon per haps the most striking feature is the fine weather experienced ot Hong Kong from the time the centre reaches the Philippines until it approaches to within about 200 miles of Hong Kong This seems to be the one guide to weather forecasting in Hong Kong which never falls. No mat ter what the weather conditions to the north or west of Hong Kong may be, with a typhoon crossing Luzon in the summer. months there will be fine weather at Hong Kong,
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Rain usually commences, when the centre is about 200 miles from Hong Kong. But when the centre passes to the south on a westerly track it frequently happens, par ticularly in the autump, that noi rain falls at Hong Kong even though the centre passes as zear 88 200 miles.
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