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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 23rd, 1928.

WHAMPOA PORT DEVELOPMENT.

PLANS ARE. AGAIN REVIVED,

TO COST ABOUT: $20,000,000.

SOME FEATURES OF THE PROBLEM.

COAL IN KWANG- TUNG

MINE TO BE RE-OPENED?

BIG POSSIBILITIES.

In a district known as Kuo Yah

Mr. Li Lu Chao, the recently sidential areas will extend and Tuns, in the northern part of appointed Acting Director-General develop along the Chung Shan Rand Kwangting, there are extensive of the Whampoa Port Development at the Canton end, and this road, coal deposits so situated as to be Company, is fast developing a grasp with the territory it runs through, easily worked. In the year 1919 on affairs of that institution, says seems destined to become one of the company secured permission the Canton Gazette.

most important features of South

from the Canton Government to China..

mine. these coal deposits, and their Loperations progressed until they

It will be recalled that the development of Whampoa as a deep sea port was first mooted in the days of 1925. The large numbers

Canton needs a seaport badly; she also needs plenty of room for growth. Whampoa, and the ter-

ere producing an output of five hundred tous per day. The quality of strikers who migrated to Canton ritory in between, is the logical of the coal was found to be fully from Hong Kong undertook to answer.. The Chinese people are

the equal of the best foreign tas build the road, known as Chung fast appreciating the benefits conf transport facilities were sim- ported coals, and it was said that Shan Road, Iron Canton to Wham.ferred by living in dust free sur- pen, and this was completed in quick time. The road is twenty feet wide, and, starting from Tung shan, runs alongside the railway for about four miles, then branches off to Yuchu, the locality opposite Whampos. The road has a total length of approximately twelve miles, and is well constructed:

After the completion of this road; the Whampoa scheme was halted for some time, & variety of causes and circumstances combining to arrest progress of the plan.

Many plans for the building of the port' were designed, but no definite one was settled on and even to-day, it is not decided how the port is to be built. But this state of affairs

roundings, with plenty of fresh air: Yuet Han Railway, and

plified by connecting up with the Tangshan's rapid growth is proof

the

of this realisation. The Chung Shan quantity of machinery and labour Road opens up areas that would

employed increased, an output of serve ideally as residential suburbs, easily be reached.

three thousand tons per day could and the next few years may see the limits of Canton city extended far That mining company kept up

Bandila Oauss Stoppage, beyond their present positions operations for one year only, then Development along the Chung Shan suffered a series of interruptions Road will naturally promote in caused by bandit raids, interspers terest in the Whampoa scheme, and ed with molestation by the mili with the present regime at the helm tary, and these interferenca took of affairs a remarkable, transforon auch a mation of this part of Ewangtung operations had to he suspended. serious complexion that territory may be expected, within No suitable opportunity has since the space of the next few years.

occurred to warrant the resump-

Deep Sea Outlet Must Come. tion of work on the mine, and the At an interview granted to company was compelled to go into representative of the Gazette liquidation, disclosing an extreme-

although this part of China was a

will not continue, long. Under the Director General L4 said thatly heavy loss as a result of the driving forec of Director General Lirich industrial quarter, Kwangtung mine property however has of late constant raids by bandits. The investigations are being pursued possessed no deep sea outlet, conse years been guarded by a company vigorously, and very interesting quantly, although trade is already of soldiers. developments are promised.

oa a huge scale, the volume is not what it should be.

Under the program of recon- an outlet is throttling trade and Marshal Li has initiated in this The lack of struction and rehabilitation that cramping development. A deep sea province, this coal mine has come in futuro years; why not build one authorities have been earnestly port for Canton is bound to come in for much attention, and the now! Why wait! There is no considering the problem of re-open- thing to lose and everything to

Big Project. "That, the building of Whampoa into a commercial port, the gate way to, Southern China, of easy Access by deep son ships, is a gigantic undertaking is not lost sight of, but the magnitude of the "project does nos in the least daunt the youthful Mr. Li.

gain in pushing ahead the building ng it. The present movement to of a 'ses outlet for Canton, where sever economic relations with the maintain direct communication with to the plans for again working the ocean-going ships can berth and Japanese has given added, impetus other countries of the world.

The latest expert authority con- sulted advised that the whole port can be built for not more than about twenty million dollars. -- This

Zieût On Hong Kong mine. At present practically all opinion was based on an examina- Asked what he thought would the coal that is imported into tion of maps and charts of the be the effect on Hong Kong when Kwangtung comes from Japan, locality, and is, of course, depend- Whampoa was developed, Mr. Li and with the desire to cease deale ent on the accuracy of the informa- gave as his opinion that Hong Kong ing with Japan, prominent indus tion disclosed by the charts. The would not suffer in any way, and building of the port and the dredg the only effect would be a bene-trialists who have been devoting ing and deepening of the waterways ficial ono, He said, the building much thought to this mine are re- to provide deep water channels for of Whampoa would improve reported to be forming a company the passage of big ships presentationship between Canton and

no insuperable difficulties, and the Hong Kong. There would be no to buy the property and equip- complete project should be finished necessity for trade to pass through ment from the old company.. in about three years.

middlemen's hands in Hong Kong,

Re-opening.. During the next few weeks a trip consequently there would be no to Whampoa will probably be made opportunity for misunderstanding to the mine area to examine the An investigating party was sent by eminent experts whose advice and friction between the peoples of mining property, and following has been sought, and a definite the two ports. In past days fric scheme for the laying out of the tion was engendered over differ the report and valuation turned port will very likely be submitted.

ences in the commercial world, and under way for the re-opening of in, negotiations are said to be The reader may well ask, where mutual distrust and hatred existed the mine. Survey of the surround- is the money to come from, to practically continuously to a greater ing country has also been made, finance this project. Mr. Li was

or lesser degree, With the elimi- not disposed to talk on this part of nation of Hong Kong as a port of tion may be so improved as to per-

and it is possible that transporta the problem, but there are grounds handling, there would be no fric mit of the rapid and easy trans- for the belief that he has several tion, and friendship would, there- port of the coal to Canton. ingenious schemes up his sleeve for fore, come in. Such things as the raising the necessary funds, and strike of 1925 would never again that from two to three months will Expert opinion is to the effect these plans of his have nothing to

be experienced, and peace and do with lean fotations, bonds, or harmony would prevail between the be required to prepare the mining

two ports.

machin and transport system for us Canton Gazette. Easy Access.

taxation.

Just off Whampoa, there is a minimum depth of 34 feet at low

Director General Li Lu Chao is

a member of the Executive Com mittee of the Provincial Govern-

PILSUDSKI THE NATIONAL

IDOL

tides, amply sufficient for the pasment, and also a member of the¦ MONARCHY FOR POLAND? sage of the largest vessels that now Standing Committeo of the same make Hong Kong a port of call. Council He was associated with The locality where it is proposed to the late Dr. Sun Yat Sen since the construct the port, is a bare five early days of the Revolution, and miles from the Canton-Kowloon | for upwards of eight years acted as

WARSAW, July 7th Railway, and it would be an easy the private secretary to Dr. Sun. Poland is rife with rumours that matter to run a branch line from Until the recent reorganisation of the republic will soon be over- this railway. There would then be the Provincial Government Mr. Li, thrown and a monarchy establish- two means of communication with was the Commissioner of the Deed with the warrior statesman and Canton, by rail and by road. While partment of Industry, which depart national idol. Piłsudski wearing the port of Whampoa grows at one ment, under his able guidance, con- the crown. end of the road, it is practically tributed materially towards the pro- a certainty that the Tangshan re-motion of native industries.

AFFORESTATION IN KWANGTUNG.

FOREIGN EXPERT ENGAGED

$10,000 ̄ ̄| GRANT,

:

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The monarchistic fame, which BAYER

has been burning rather low the last two years, flamed bright when the Marshal resigned, his Premier- sity, a forestry expert, has been ship and gave an interview to the invited to become the Director of press stating as his reason for the Afforestation for the Northern Re-step that the present Constitution gion.

Under the scheme mapped was full of faults and that he was 32 out by this professor, it is planned unable longer to endure seeing the those who favour

the parlia to establish model forcats in each way the nation was governed by mentary form of government, district, each to be of some three It is believed that as soon as demnation of the Sejm deputies.

an incompetent Parliament.

Comments on Pilsudski's con hundred acres in area. In these Pilsudaki returns from his rest model forests, the lateat methods General Wong Ying Yu, the Rein the caring of the trees and the cure in Hungary he means to take are now all favourable, since those babilitation Commissioner for the conservation of supply will be put affairs into his own hands, as he peers which were opposed to the

Marshal have been suppressed Northern Region is paying con into practice so that the natives did in May two years ago, and Pilsudski has again postponed siderable attention to the problem will have opportunity of learning force a new constitution on the his proposed journey to Bad Tir of afforestation, as part of the re how to make the most of this form government cutting down the

govisti, Hungary, andisi habilitation program for the re of natural wealth with which their Power of Parliament to point rumoured here that the monarchis gion over which he has charge region is so richly endowed where it will be merely a nominal tie-ides got under way premature Practically the whole of this re-It was but recently that General the hands of one person; the first ly and he is remaining to watch de

body and investing dictatorship in gion abounds in rich forests, but Wong Ying Yu was given an ap owing to lack of knowledge on the propriation of ten thousand dolons being the warrior himself. edited by a Deputy of the Govern- Fart of the natives, indiscriminate lars by the government for the Government Split On The Issue. tant block prints a long articlo felling is the order of the day and purpose of promoting and improv The Government bloc in Sejm, landing Pilsadaki's plan to change there is tremendous waste and ing the lumber industry. With created by Pilsudski himself, has the form of Government and "pio damage in the production of fire this money General Wong pro- split over the issue. The Radical Cures him as Poland's Napoleon. wood. The terra conservation is poses to establish a forest three wing wants the Republic maintain- None of the papers favouring unknown and as long as trees thousand aeres in extent in the ed at all costs and the present monarchistic idear or openly, de exist that can be turned into fre neighbourhood of Shiukwan as the Constitution enforced. The Con, claring their interest in the move- wood, little thought, is given to first of the experimental foresta,servative wing which is equally meat for the crowning of a Polish metasequences via the future The other plantations will be startantong, openly says there is no King has been suppressed on for: It is learned that a foreign pro-ed as circumflantės permik room in the Government blog for strdon of the strict censorship” fessor in the Chungshan Univer- Canton Gazette. ISANG

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