CO129-457 - Public Offices - 1919 — Page 638

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YUL

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Tedo JDŮ

I gathered, more of these warehouses. An engineer connected with the Takow works is at present in america £27 and it would not be surprising if this were one of the objects of his mission.

It is difficult to predict the future

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to this port, but it seems highly probable that it has an era of great prosperity and expansion before it. The interesting question is, whether it will continue to depend, as at present, almost entirely on the sugar trade for its imports and exports or whether developments in other directions will be witnessed, This question must of course have relation to the birth of industry and production (other than sugar) in the south of the for which the inception of the enterprise of t Hydro-Electric Company at Lake Candidius undou up great possibilities. The supply of cheap and hydro-electric power together with the great natural fertility of the soil leads one to think that the ambitions of the Formosan Goverment may perhaps pr well founded, There remains the question of labour, it must be remembered that, apart from the native p tion, the great reserves of China are close at har draw on, provided the present difficulties create silver exchange do not continue innerinitely.

I now come to what I think is an exceedin interesting point regarding fakow and that is the bility of its adaptation as a Naval Port. In t

paragraph of my despatch No. 43 I set forth `* which led me to think that such action might pu contamplation. During my visit to the south I that this is the case, It is said that no decir as yet been arrived at, but I understand that time past the sale of picture postcards has been prohibited, and that the Raval A

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