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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 1928.

GRAIN-GROWING IN

THE SAHARA.

.........

EUROPE'S NEW GRANARY.

Ambitious new plans to make the Sahara blossom, like a rose and turn part of that vast waste into an inland sen within three years are now being discussed in, all their bearings by the French and Italian Governments.

that state."

Mr. Branuan intends to grow trees where none has been seen for 2.000 gears; go collect the rain water and hold the water of the rivers by means of dykes, and to build from the African coast canals, including one fourtgen miles long, 40 feet deep, and 210 feet, wide, in order to inundate that part of the Sahara which is situated below

RUSSIA'S NEW MILITARISM.

PEACE STRENGTH OF 1,050.000 MEN.

WOMEN LIABLE TO CON

·SCRIPTION,

ایر

THE CITY OF LONDON POLICE.

REPORT FOR· 1927.

The annual report of the Com- missioner of the City Police For the year 1027 shows that steps are: now being taken to bring the Force more nearly to its authorised establishment of 1,181 men for Public service and 150 men for pri vate service on payment.. Hitherto it had been decided to keep the Force below strengib for economic

reasons, but the traffic conditions are now such that in 1927 authority was obtained to fill the 60 vacancies. on the public service side, still

The latest issues of the Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Stur), the official daily The author of this spectacular newspaper published by the Rus- scheme, which has now been work-sian Commissariat of War, give the ed out 11 considerable detail, is following information concerning Mr. Dwight Bramay, the famous Soviet armaments and war prepara agricultural pioneer, whose great tions. irrigation works, which were built Military training of the youth of thirty-eight years ago in California, Russia begins early in life; is enkeeping, however, 32 vacancies to be filled with the approval of the. have contributed greatly to the braces all school children - up to

Police Committee if required. present agricultural prosperity of fifteen years of age, when the The strength of the Force on training given is classified in the January 1st, 1921, was 1,078, and military manuals as Preliminary on December 31st 1,116, 18 men out The of that number in each case being training of the first period."

for private service. The average second perice is between, the ages daily strength of the Force for of 18 and 18 and the training given public service was 1,003, and the then is entirely under military cón. Heneral health of the police was satisfactory. The vacancies creat- trol, "The third period begins withed by removals fren, the Force 19 years of age under rigorous numbered 68," and the number of conditions and is called the "pre. men appointed was 100 out of an original number of 11,501 applica calling up training.". conducted by tians. Incidentally, the recruiting the military instructors attached to fleures smphasize the high standard the territorial forces. Then followf physique demanded in the City of London police, for after 4,190 five years of active service, instead had abandoned their applications of the three years and eight months for various reasons, another 7,00 under the Czaristie régime, and 14 were found to be unsuitable owing: to age, height, physique, &e. The years of reserve service. The at remaining 378 attended for medical, ter is divided into, two classes: the examination, and 203 were found to be physically unit and 33 were first class reserve contains men found to be unsuitable for edada. from 28 to 35 years of age and the tional or other reasons, leaving 40 years only 118 physically, educationally. second dass from 36 to

and otherwise fit for appointment. of age. Men in both classes are Fifty-nine members of the City given strenuous training every Police were specially recommended by judicial and other authorities for their conduct in matters of duty during 1997, as compared with 58 in the previous year. The First Police Reserve, consisting of pen- sioned sergeants and constables.. from the Force who had agreed to return to duty in an emergency, numbered

December 31st, 1927, and the Second Police Reserve of Special Constables on that date numbered 1,533 in Standing Divi sions and 2,698 in Ward Companies, 8,943 on January 1st, 1927, a total of 4,431, as compared with

sea level

I can make of North Africa," says Mr. Bruman, a continent where populations cap live, crops ripen, and entitle and sheep remain all the year round. The tribes will have fresh water and electricity for sanitation, hesting, and lighting, while the Sahara will become the granaty of Southern Europe."

SCHEME OF CANALS.

The area of the Sahara, in which it is proposed to form an inland

sea, has for its northern.boundaries the Aures and Tebesa Mountains, while on the west is is bounded by a ridge of high ground.

The portion which can be flooded most easily lies, chout fifteen miles south of Biskra and extends east to the coast for 223 miles. ".

year.

""

In time of war all wothen be tween it and 40 are able to com- pulsory military service,'

Baltic And Black Sea Fleets. In addition to the regular army large territorial force, has been organised recently and boasts o some 2,000,000 men ind women. The latest efforts of reorganisation are made with regard to the Red nary," but very Ettle information

The number of street accidents to has so far been published on the persons numbered 1,092 in 1927, 48 subject. The only comthent is the against 1,120 in 1926, and là per- sons were killed and 1,183 persons boasting assurance that in a very injured in connection with these short time the Red navy will be accidents in 1927, as against 17 kill- in a position to face the mosted and 1,177 injured in 1926. Two formidable foe. The latest Baltic and Black Sea naval macœuvres are said to have been very success- "I propose," says Mr. Dwightful and have shown great fight- Braman, “to construct three canals ing abilities."

This part of the Sahara contains extensive depressions formed by the skeletons of drainage or river systems called abotte, three of which are respectively 100ft.. 73ft, and ift. below sea level. The ares of these shotts are:-1,861, 1,012, and 5,173 square miles...

or more, the first one to the west of the Gulf of Gabes.

The peace strength of the regu- lar Red army is given us 1,050,000 uien, increased in war to six mil.

I

lions..

more petrol motor ambulances were added in October, 1997, and have proved most satisfactory."

The persons apprehended by the City of London police during 1997 numbered 1,270, as against 1,200 in 1928, and the indictable offences re- ported, 684. For committing those offences, 490 persons were arrested "I undertake to build the canals.

and 17 summoned, as compared with 633 offences reported, 486 per- within a period of three years.

sons arrested, and is summoned in will build a number of dykes to

1928. The main section in which hold the waters flowing

these offences fell was that against the to

without violence (501 south from the Aures in Algeria Italians this figüre to

include property and from the Atlas in Morocco

colonists to be sent to Tripoli); cases), and against property with two million Americana, and 500,000 violence (146 casca), all for break. which are at present lost in the Swiss and Scandinavians selecteding into warehouses. Subaru; also the water coming from the most suitable people. In 70 persons apprehended and 1,293 from the Aures and all the chains this way 4,300,000 inhabitants would summoned for committing non- indictable offences, as compared of mountains of North Africa which be added to the existing 14,000,000, with 624 apprehended and 1,205

composed of Arabs, Berbers, and summoned in the previous year. is now lost in the Mediterranean. Europeans. thus bringing the

There were 328 aliena" registered Trees For The Desert.

population of North Africa

toin: the. City on January 187, 1927, 20,000,000.

and during the year 187 reported their arrival and 280 departed,

Concessions.

There were

re-

I will plant trees on the hills, thus rendering difficult, and, even

It is proposed to give the leaving 205 on the register on De impossible, the floods which devas-colonists concessions and to teach cumber 31st. The biggest figure for one nationality related to tated the country destroying the them intensive cultivation as has any

been done in South California, Russians, of whom 142 were lives of thousands of inhabitants, where six crops of alfalia instead ident on January 1st, 15: Forty- carrying away bridges and destroy of one, have been obtained by ap- two arrived during the year ing railway lines over long, dis-plying "dry farming."

bringing the total up to 18 and "4 We will sow, elyz Mr. 88 left, giving a total of 48 miles Braman, Indina torn for the and 50 females of that nationality. Mr. Braman maintains that new cattle, and sweet corn for human

in the City on December 31st. ports with breakwaters will have consumption, fruit of every descrip Satisfaction is expressed at the

of

police the new to be provided at Gabies and in tion for the French market-cher- completion

ries, peaches, plums, apples, pears, station at Snow Hill, and it is stated that the rebuilding of the apricots, melons, strawberries, sels will have to be established to grapes. gooseberries, red

headquarters at 2, Old Jewry, and of the police station at Bishopsgate meet the despands of traffic,

tances."

North Africa and new lines of ves-

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WORLD THEATRE SNAPPY FRENCH FARCE

WHAT PRICE GLORY

I will make of North Africa a pomegranates, figa, olives, lemons, is in the opinion of the Commin SHOWING HEXT WEEK

oranges, chestnuts, almonds, coffee, sioner, urgently required in the in-

terests of efficiency. continent where there will be no tea-imagine all this in what is more siroccos, says Mr. Braman, now the desert.

and where Europeans may live all the year round instead of only five months in the year,"

directors. -

We will have the cultivation of

cotton introduced as well as that of sugar cane, which, will enable France to produce its own gun. powder and to be independent of any other nation in that respect.

Water Power.

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"We will erect factories worked

PRINCE OF WALES AND

TUNNEY.

PRIVATE CHAT AT YORK HOUSE.

much

FLORENCE

VIDOR

CLIVE BROOK JOCELYN LEE

BOHMAN TREVOR

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speakers, and both have endured publicity at its fiercest heat.

Americans in London were de lighted at the honour done to their champion. While Tunney is not Mr. Braman's proposals "provide

the most popular champion they ever had-it is felt that in a land for the formation of a company of

of mass

л production pugilist an international character, in which

should adhere to type-they were France and Italy will be promin by hydraulic power, utilising the

Prince's touched by the Gene Tunney, the ex-heavyweight graciousness... ently, represented on the board of waterfalls which now go to waste champion of the world has added The American newspapers gave in the desert and in the Mediter-one more laurel to his wreath. He great prominence to messages from Twenty dykes are to be huilt in ranean, We will plant beetroots was received one afternoon recently London describing Tunney's recep order to supply water to the future and build refineries."

by the Prince of Wales privately tion by the Prince. generations of North Africa,"

"We will endeavour to make at York House, and the pugilist Tunney is described as being Telephone lines and works for sup: North Africa nearly as rich as and the Prince talked together for greatly impressed with the Prince's The comedy of a marriage plying electric lighting and power France herself, and to make it an half an hour.

up to the minute". knowledge of will be installed in order to replace outlet for French products. Wr This signal honour was the result events. He was delighted by the of convenience and a honey» wood and coal, which do not exist will also make it the granary cl of the extraordinary impression fact that the Prince inquired about moon of extreme incon- in that region. It is also proposed Europe, as it already was three Tunney made at a dinner party his fiancee, Miss Lander. to attract the kind of colonists thousand years ago."

given in his honour in London. The fact which made the greatest venience !--- that colonised America, and who Such a North African colony, Tuuney's He-man" decency and impression on the London corres would become French citizens and formed by the best materials from kindly philosophy carried every pondents of the American news taxpayers,

other nations--as in America, thing before then at the dinner, papers is that the Prince himself Mr Braman estimates that 17 where 37 per cent of the popula and the report of the affair even- escorted Tunney to the door at the five years it would be possible to tion is of foreign origin and where tually reached the Prince's ears. end of the visit, and stepped back, send 300,000 English colonists; there are at present 16 millions of The two men had much in com- insisting that the ex-champion of 200,000. Dutch (the best farmers), foreign citizens or subjects will be mon in their meeting. They are the boxing ring should precede him. 250,000 Frenchmen; one million

a very powerful one, and its in- both sportsmen, hoth excellent This act of courtesy was deeply (Continued on mas Column); habitants will be free and happy (Continued on cat Column); approst

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