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ENGINEERING AND

Irrigation Work In Shensi

BIG PROJECT FOR WEI PEI DISTRICT

ELABORATE SYSTEM OF WELLS

BUILDING

BUILDINGS WITH 100

STOREYS

U.S. ENGINEER'S VIEW OF FUTURE LONDON.""

below Restaurants "ton storeys Regant-street aro visualised by Mr. Bort Rhodos, an American engineer who has been studying building conditions in England. He stat ed:-

FRENCH RAILWAY FUSION

MODERN USES OF ELECTRICITY

RATIONALISATION UNDER THE PERFECT TIMEKEEPER

STATE CONTROL

DEFICIT THIS YEAR OF

£50,000,000

"itr(torre-F Billa bis address

chairman of the north-western con- tre of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, spoke on the new appli- cations and the expansion of re- cant use of electricity-a-subject which enabled him to cover a wide and interesting field,

Paris-A project for the amal gamation of the French railways

The accurate recording of time undor State control has been pre- pared by the Minister of Public electrically," he remarked, Works and will be submitted to proceeding very rapidly, but it Parliament in the near future. The will probably involve some little private companies have more than argument with the supply authori once been invited by the Govern- ties. They may get tired to being ment to effect a fusion and it has told that their supply stopped at, now decided to take the matter day, £33, and 90sec. a.m.” into its own hands...

The public complimented electri During the last ten years the city by expecting perfection of it, deficit during the present nine non-electro clock in the railways have lost £180,000,000 and though they were content to have alone amounts to nearly house, none of which told the cor the

£50,000,000 A part of this is at root time and some of which they tributed to the economic depres forgot to wind. Mr. Sills said that sion, but approximately £25,000,000 he was recently in a new house in is of a permanent character dus to which a plug for connecting an the unprofitable manner in which electrically controlled clock had the railways are run, the competi-heem installed over the centre of of road communications, each mantelpiece. He thought that

Brst various was probably the

private tion

house to be so equipped. heaviness of taxes, and other factore.

year

An electric smoke detector and a

Sheusi is the cradle of Chinese the provines do not admit of im civilization, and from the dawn of inediate execution. As a means of Chinese history to the first cen- providing relief meanwhile, Shen tury of the Christian Era was sat farmers are being advised to land Howing with milk and honey sink wells, and this work is being Writers of the Han dynasty and done, with official aid,

"I can foresee the day when earlier periods speak of a fertile

586,000 Wells.

buildings one hundred storeys high land extending for thousands of li,

Last year the Shensi Provincial will be emcted in Regent-street, in with fields covered with bounteous! arops and the countryside dotted Department for Reconstruction en Piccadilly and in Oxford street, with mulberry gropes and ramie gaged some experts from Tientsin It is no use telling me that on had a score of welle were sunk to do sail won't support sky-scrap plantations. But what a sad con-

A sky-seraper could be built trast Shensi presents fo-day, This eat their value for irrigation pur- | era.

The experiment proved most on water if necessary. province is subject to periodic posea. drought, which often causes, wide successful, and the Shansi authori

The builders of the sky scrape spread famine. Although changed ties have drawn up ten-year plan climatic conditions are believed to under which it is anticipated some ers will have to go down into the some ten storeys or so to be partly responsible for Shenai 506,000 wells will be sunk. The earth present plight, the main factor is work is being started in the Kwan support the hundred-storey build- the lack of irrigation facilities Chung districts, which are divided ing. But these foundations will into two areas: Wei Nan (south not be wasted. Restaurants, shops About two thousand years ago,

The problem was one of the most there was a network of canal which of the Wei, River) and Wei Pei and offices will be accommodated (north of the river). In districts below. Modern systems of ventila tapped the Wei River for irrig south of the Wei the work is cosier tion will ensure good air at the urgent with which the present Gov photo-electric relay device for ope- ernment was faced on assuming rating light-houses, a safety device tion purposes, but after successive

power, and as it is strongly oppor- for controlling railway level-cross- invasions by hordes from the Step-because water can be tapped close lowest depth.

of fares inge, methods of drying tea and to the surface, where pressure is

"A thing that has struck me ed to the increase hes of Mongolia, when Shea and comparatively high and artesian about London is the way in which demanded by the companies it curing tobacco, was advances which. oher northern provinces were overwells are of frequent occurrence. The by notands who knew nothing The authorities plan the sinking offices, are scattered about. It is has decided to go to the mot of Mr. Sills noted.

A further useful advance record- of agriculture, these canals were of 145,000 wells in five years for i practically impossible for an exccu-.) the evit· ànd rationalise the rail- either destroyed or neglected.

tive to get more than four or five ways. Big economies will thus be In Wei Pei more difficulty is ex- appointments in a day. The busy effected in administration, the va ed was that of arranging conter- pected, because deeper wells are executive finds that one man has rious systems being controlled by sonces by inter-connecting the mem- needed to reach the water. In these big office in Victoria, a second in central board, while overlapping bers of a committee or other body so that they could conduct their districts 421,000 wells are to us the City, a third in Holborn, and and costly competition will be by trazemitters and food speakers deliberations without the necessity sink, the work to be completed in-fourth somewhere ever London avoided,

Bridge, and the fifth up near King's

It is not yet settled what form of assembling all in one place... Cro

State control will take-whether This, to remarked, was a valuable "Interview which last perhaps its authority will be delegated or procedure in the case of a conder It is estimated that after this0 minutes necessitate taxicab exercised directly as in the case of once required at exceedingly short plan has been carried into effect journeys at half an hour or more the tobacco industry and other notice between people separated by the production of wheat and other through your narrow streets.

public monopolies. The present long distances. Government is believed to be in cereals will increase by 12 million

Mr. Sills mentioned the modern piouls. The Shensi Provincial Go "It is impossible, of course, for favour of direct control. As re vernment has appropriated $30,000 it to be otherwise when so much gards the competition of road traf-use in surgery of an electric needle fic, the Minister proposes to draw which rendered operations more for the purchase of 900 sets of well-į space above ground is wasted. sinking plants, which ars to be

"When the skyscraper, with its up a further project dealing with safe and speedy because it sealed distributed free among the 33 dis- The urgent, need of providing it-tricts" of Kwan Chung, each heien 60, 70, 80 or 100 storeys comes into railway, road, and air communien- the bloodvessals as the surgeon pro-

to have six

existence, the whole of the business tions, so that eventually the whole ceeded. sets. Well-sinking

tionalised.. realized by the provincial authori- crews will be organized, the De-quarter of London will be concen. of France's transport will be ra- " partment of Reconstruction being trated in an area perhaps a mile responsible for providing the ad quare-making it easy for busy

Executives to make and keep any vice and technical assistance re-thing, un to 20 appointments in a of the Now General Post Office, the quired Qualified foremen will be trained by the Department and day. There will be fauch less raf New General Hospital and the New sent to the various districts, each fie in the streets but each building Mental Hospital in Singapore, as of which will raise funds to pay will have between 60 and 70 lifts.",

Dependent on Rain.

In the absence of irrigation faci- lities, Shensi farmers now depend entirely upon the rainfall for the success of their crops. They may sow but are never sure to reap, be- cause the weather is always capri- cious, and in recent years, has been particularly so. For instance, last 1 year when the entire Yangtze val- ley was flooded owing to excessive rainfall the fields in certain parts of Shenai wore parched for lack of

moisture.

Campaign of Well Sinking.

rigation facilities has been fully

ties, who, besides outlining a pro ject for making canals, have start ed a campaign of well-sinking. The canal project for the Wei Pei die tricts, though elaborately worked out, will take time to materialize, and present financial conditions in

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How a man was killed in a Lon don metal works during an at- tempt to fulfil an order for an impossible" alloy, was described pt the inquest at Deptford on Henry Frederick Milligan (30). a motal press worker, of Heavitree- road, Plunstead,

It was stated that his employers, the Delta Metal Company, of East Greenwich, had received an order from Scotland to make rods of an alloy of 35 per cent, zine and 45 per cent. lead. The metals were heated together, and an ingot was made. This was put into a bydraulic extrusion press and ex- posed to a pressure of 1,319b. About seventy-five feet of red came out from the extrusion holes and thon the metal began to squirt out "like shrapnel," pieces hitting four men, at wham Milligan was

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Mr. A. Topham, factory inspec tor, said that only about two per sent. each of the lead and tine would be absorbed by the other; and the order was therefore im- possible to fulfil. No one in the works realised this, but when the ingot was put into the press the metals in it must have been almost completely separated, like oil and

-water.

The zine came out perfectly in rods," added Mr. Topham, Then they came to the lead, which was behind, and, as soon as they got to it, it began to squirt through the holes like Ballete from a ma chine-gun."

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BRITISH CANNING INDUSTRY

TWO NEW FACTORIES

London, Dec. 3-Rapid advan- res in the development of a new British canaing industry are indi- cated by the decision to open two new factories at King's Lynn, Nor- folk, while a French Arm is taking over a elased factory and going to extend it.

Orders for fruit and vegetables F. & F.R.L.B.A.. have commenced ing to somewhere in the neighbour. to practice in Shanghai as archi- ing to somewhere in the neighbour have been placed with farmers

and labour requirements were pro tects with offices situated in the hood of $14,000,000 have been car-bably necessitate the importation Hamilton House. This firm is res-

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