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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

Railways, Mining And Road- Building

Wuhu, Nov. 26.

Train service on

the Wuhu-

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1934.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

NEW SURVEY

·INSTRUMENT··

GRIMSBY'S NEW FISH DOCK

ORIENT LINER "ORION"

Nanking, Nov. 23.

The business of the Nanking

Hsuancheng section of the Nan- Waterworks is steadily increasing. Shoal Fathometer"

king-Wuhu Railway, In

eastern Anhwel,

south- Was formally The entire operated yesterday. tine will be completed in March next.-

Kno Min.

TATUNG PUCHOW RAILWAY

Taiyuan, Nov. 26. Construction of the branch line of the Tatung-Puchow Radway be- tween Talyuan. provincial capital

of Shans, and Hsishan, in central Snansi, has been completed. The line is over 40 (13 miles) long

and will be used exclusively for the transportation of coal.

By an order of General Yen Hsi Shan. Director of the Taiyuan Pacification Headquarters,, Mr. Ku Ching Te, Chiet Secretary, and General Chu, Shou Kwang, Chief- of-Staff of the Pacification Head- quarters, made an inspection of the branch line as well as the steel works and the cement factory in that area. Rua Min.

PEIPING-SUIYUAN RAILWAY

Nanking, Nov. 26. Traffic on the Petping-Sulyuan Raliway has been increasing. The total receipts for the past ten months amounted to over $7,970,000, which is $100,000 over the total annual revenue tor 1933, according to a report received by the Ministry of Rallways from the Railway Administration.

As November and December are the busiest months. it is expected. that the receipts will at least ex- ceed $1 million each month, thus making a record earning of $10 millions for the railway this year—. Kue Min.

PEIPING-HANKOW RAILWAY

Hankow, Nov. 25. Traffic receipts on the Peiping- Hankow Railway for 1934 are ex- pected to qual, if not exceed, the record earnings of 1932, which were $32 millions.

According to a report of the Rail- way Administration, the revenue of the line. for the past ten months totalled over $25,830,000, an in- crease of approximately $1 million. as compared with the correspond- Ang period last year.

As November and December" are the busiest months, it is expected that the receipts will at least ex- ceed $3 millions each month. The

total earnings should therefore run up to at least $30 millions this year. "Kuo Min.

monthly earnings are now over $40,000. In view of the growing demand, special arrangements are being made for the expansion of

the service.- Nuo Min

NEW CARS ARRIE FROM EUROPE

Captain R. S., Patton, director. announces a recent improvement by the U. S., Coast and Geodetic Survey in the apparatus to obtain depths by echo sounding. "The equipment, now being used in sur veys off the Virginia coast, takes 20 soundings a second in depths from 6 to 120 feet. with an accu- racy of about one inch. At a cruising speed of ten miles ber hour, a sounding is therefore ob tained every ten inches' along the

Esuchow, Nov. 24. To protect the Tungkwan and Lingpao railway stations, which are situated near the Yellow Riv- bottom. er along the Shensi-Honan bord-

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This unique instrument, known er, the Ling-Hal Railway Admini- as the "Shoal Fathometer." is à stration started building operations further development of the deep yesterday for an embankment. The water Fathometer, an Invention of dyke is to an about 200 feet long a commercial company, which has and will be completed in Match been used by the Coast and Geode- tic Survey in hydrographic survey. A consignment of 20 new cars ing for over nine years. The deep for the line ordered from Europe. water Fathometer has been of in- has arrived here. An additional estimable value for depths of about express service will be operated on 15 fathoms (90 feet) to 3.000 the Hsuchow Halchow section or fathoms (18.000 feet), the deepest December 4 in order to expedite water so far surveyed by this traffic Ang Min.-..

TWO TRAWLERS LAUNCHED

Named By Wives Of Shipyard

Bureau. Not bullt primarily for surveying, a small variation in depth indication was found to ob- tain in the apparatus. Having a nearly constant value, this produ ces a large percentage of error in shallow water than in water of greater depths After using the deep water Fathometer for nearly a decade as a surveying instru- ment. the shoal Fathometer Wat developed for the required ac- Two trawlers launched from the curacy for the shallow depths South Bank-on-Tees shipyard of ordinarily covered Messrs Smith's Dock Co.. Ltd.. leadline sounding. recently, were named by the wives of employees:

Employees

The first trawler. the Sudanese which has been bufit to the order of Messrs.. Hellyer Bros.. Ltd.. Hull. was named by the wife of a foreman blacksmith, while the Loch Melfort built for the Loch Fishing Co., Hull, Ltd., was named by the wife of a foreman carpen ter. The husbands of both ladles were employed in the construction, of the vessels.

HUCE NEW WHARVES

New York Prepares For Ocean Giants

New York. Construction was officially in- augurated recently by Mr. La Guardia, Mayor of New York, of three new wharves at an estimat- ed cost of U.S. $200,000,000,

by means

How it Functions

of

The gener method of measur- ing depths by all Fathometers is to produce a sound in the water at the

The

bottom of the ship. This sound travels to the bottom and returns, as an echo, picked up by a hydrophone, or electrical ear, in the bottom of the vessel. Fathometer mheasures precisely. and translates automatically into depth, the elapsed time from the sound production to, the return of the echo, and indicates this depth by means of eneor-tube flash on a rotating disc graduated In fat- homs.

In the shoal Fathometer, super- sonic frequencies are used for the sound production; that is," a note produced electrically, too shrill for the human ear to detect.

Largest In The World

The Beginning of October saw the completion of an engineering work which has been in progress for the last four years; this was the world's largest fish dock, which has been constructed at Grimsby. In Yorkshire. at a cost of £1,500,000,

The new dock provides an in crease of 37 acres of water for the accommodation of trawlers and is equipped with the latest machi- nery for the repairs, reftting and coaling of vessels engaged in the fishing industry Over 28 mies of new sidings were laid down, a re-span reinforced concrete bridge constructed over the moln railway lines and a large diversion of the main sewage butfall car- ried out in connection with the dock scheme.

Grimsby's new fish dock is the first to have a system of electric lighting which enables full day- light activities to be carried on throughout the night. The special scheme designed by the General Electric Co. of England, provides adequate lighting for all purposes, including navitional lights to direct incoming and outgoing ves sels.

Sir Lindsay Parkinson & Co, who were the main contractors for this undertaking, have been responsible for several large civil engineering schemes in recent years, amongst them the £2,000.-

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road from Manchester to Liverpool, which was opened by His Majesty the King in July of this year.

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MORE BRIDGES REQUIRED

Britain's Needs

on the

Mr. Ralph Freeman, who built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, in an interview gave his views bullding-of bridges in the highly mechanised world of to-day.

Asked at the outset if bildges were as necessary to-day as be- fore the mechanical age, Mr. Freeman said: "They Rre far more necessary. There is an im- mense need for bridge construc- tion in Britain.

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Since sound in se water has a

Our road development, for inst- velocity of about 4,800 feet per second, some idea may be had of ance, is seriously handicapped by the almost uncanny accuracy of the absence of long-span bridges The new harves will enable the time element in this newly across the estuaries around the the ocean glants, the French liner developed instrument, which must coast. They must of necefsity te Normandle, of the Compagnie measure the elapsed time for the long-span bridges to avoid Inter-

ference with navigation. travel, for example, a Transatlantique, and the British sound to

"Some imagination and courage diner Queen Mary, of the depth of 12 féet to the bottom' Cunard Line both of them over and return, a total distance of are required. At the moment we five are showing none of the courage 70,000 tons, to me r alongside the but 24 feet, requiring only

foresight. one-thousandth of a pler at New York.

second to and

of the early the round trip. As the Instrument pioneers:

Sir Benjamía is designed to measure this depth Baker built the Forth Bridge, over within one-tenth of a foot, its forty years ago, there has been an accuracy of measurement of time almost complete cessation of the elapsed must be within four one- building of large bridges in Bri. hundred-thousandth of a second.

tain and until the Quebec and Sydney bridges were built there had been no large brilgas ron structed in the whole of the Bri- tish Empire.

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EMERA

EMERALCRETE

RAPID HARDENING PORTLAND CEMENT

IN PAPER BAGS OF 94LBS NETT

PRODUCT OF

GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO.LTD.

EXCHANGE BUILDING. HONG KONG

The old Method

Ings every second. As this repre-

Since

NEW DREDGER FOR CHINA

Dredging The Fairy Flats

Shanghai.

Another step towards the real- ization of the gigantic scheme for the dredging of the Fairy

To Be Launched By Flats, the ever-increasing obstacle

Radio Impulse

Arrangements have now been completed for the ceremony of the launching of the new Orient liner "Orion" at Barrow-in-Fur- ness on Friday, December, 7.

Sallors'

The ceremony will be perform- ed by his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, who will be attending a concert given by the Returned Soldiers' and Imperial League at Brisbane or that day. The concert will be interrupted for the Duke to press & button which will provide a radio impulse sufficient to set "Orion" in motion down the slipway. As She moves, a "tripper" will - be actuated automatically which will break a bottle of Empire wine. against her bows.

The launching ceremony; to- gether with a speech by the Duke from Brisbane, will be heard by Empire listeners, throughout the world as well as by the crowds at Barrow." Microphones installed. along the slipway will pick up the sounds as "Orion" takes the water. Commander Sir Charles Craven, managing director of the works. and shipyards of Vickers-Arm- strongs, is to call for three cheers, and the Rt. Hon. SM Bruce, C.H

MC, High Commissioner for Australia, will subsequently announce trom the launching platform that "All is Well" and will broadcast loyal greetings to the Duke. A running commen- tary on the whole of the proceed- ings will be given by Commander D.A. Stride, recently retired from the Royal Navy, who is also Freeman of the Honourable Com- pany of Master Mariners.

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The Empire has good reason to be interested in "Orion," it only because her voyaging will be be- tween Great Britain and Aus- tralia. Her construction in the shipyards of Vickers-Armstrongs has meant employment for thou- sands of people and given a fresh impetus to the shipbuilding in-. dustry in the north-west.

"Orion" has a displacement of 24.000 tons, with a length of 664. feet and a team of eighty-two feet. Her hull ig white with one yellow funnel, and a single mast She will be driven by two twin screw turbines with a horse-power of 27.000,- Elaborate arrangements have been made to render the vessel reproof throughout. She will carry over 1,100 passengers.

NEW WATERLOO

BRIDGE

Neighbourhood Survey

Sir Giles Scott is to receive. £5,250 altogether as architect of the new Waterloo Bridge. This sum was agreed on in 1932, When Bir Giles drew up his first plans

He was paid · a ̈· for the bridge. thousand guiness then and the £0.00 will be asked to "vote:: the balance of the fee of 4000 guineas. The cost of the work including demolition is now expected to be "£1,195,000 a kav-

The news that Bir Giles Gilbert

When sounding by the old "handlead" method, at a cruising

In spite of vast expenditure on speed of some 5 knots, say in 10

road construction, amounting to fathoms (80 feet), it is possible to

Aundreds of milions of some get one sounding every 30 seconds. for it takes that long to heave the pounds, there are still many weak lead and haul it in again. That inks in the system. consequent

on the omission to constructing of £100,000 on the original represents one sounding for every bridges of modern type, to say pian 254 feet. Á survey ship equipped nothing of small weak bridges. with a shoal Fathometer can travel which will have to be replaced," Bcott is being commissioned; by twice as fast, securing 20 sound he told the "Observer" reporter the London City Corporation to

"If constructive schemes of work sents one sounding every terr in- are wanted, there is enough work, ches, it furnishes an almost con- and to spare, in the construction tinuous profile of the bottom.

of the many adequate bridges that This improvement in equipment are needed in this country. The therefore makes possible the ac time is ripe for an active pro- compilahment of twice as much gramme by the Minister of Tran- work without an increase in cost, sport and the local authorities. and with even greater accuracy. "Britain is far behind America in the construction of long-span bridges, Partly that is due to the great breadth of the rivers there, but it is due also to the treater enterprise of the American en- gineers. ·

BRITISH DIESEL ENGINES

FOR OVERSEAS

make a survey of building sur- rounding Guildhall in view of their being rebuilt, is an encont aging sign of an official mind to-, wards town planning at the heart of English affairs Tit long in- quest on innovation at Carlem House Terrace and the risistent demand for special consideration of the area adjacent to St. Paul's, have awakened the public cons- cloumes in a matter which no less importantly arises in connec tion with the neighbourhood of the noble divic centre of the great- est urban council in the world.

"Nearly all the long-span brid- ges are road. bridges. Bridges for Among recent orders received by railway traffic are very much Thornycrofta for their Diesel en more costly than road bridges gines are three at the B-cylinder and road bridges could be a good vpe, each developing 122 BHP deal less costly if it were not ne which are to be shipped to Shang- cessary to provide for the extraor hal, and others of the 18 and 43dinary heavy loading stipulated BHP types, which are destined by the authorities. It is a ques- for Singapore. There are already tion that should receive thore a large number of these units in attention whether it is economie operation in the latter place. to build a bridge suitable for the loagh

very exceptional loads which may come rather than for normal- trame, To provide for these ex- ceptional loads, which will urea bridge only st rare intervals, the public has to meet an expense which may well be twice is great as for a bridge carrying normal

In the Yangtze to the entrance of big ships into Shanghai harbour, has been made by the launch and successful trials of the Li Liang, the special service vessel built by the New Engineering and Ship- building Works, Ltd., for, the Whangpoo Conservancy Board.

The Liang has been specially built as a tender to co-operate with the huge suction dredger re- cently launched in Germany and which is expected to arrive here under tow at the end of March. The dredger, which is believed to be one of the largest in the world, will undergo trials and then work will be commenced on dredging a wide and deep channel through flats, which at present give only seventeen feet depth at low water," It is the aim of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board to concentrate- on one dredger, but if needs be another may be constructed to ensure successful completion of the project.

Special Wharf Ballt At the Board's station at Woo- sung. a wharf is being built to ac commodate

and

the dredger tender, and Buoys have also been placed in position in the Whang- poo River for the vessels, but the main purpose of the Li Llang, will be to act as feeder for dredger and undertake survey and buoy work as the dredging proceeds. The magnitude of the task to be undertaken by the Board has often been described but its urgency as Shanghal's shipping needs are increasing, finds no greater expression than in the fact that the "Sixty Years Ago" column of this issue makes refer- ence to it, adding historical as practical interest to the scheme.

Trials of the Li Liang have been proceeding from the New Engin- eering Works yard at Yangtszpoo: for some time but final acceptance

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tatals were held last week when the vessel, with Whangpoo Con- servancy Board officials on board, proceeded down the Yangtze and was subjected to the usual runs along the measured mile and also fuel consumption and other trials. In addition to members of the Dock staff there were din board Mr. Y. Utne, Chlef Surveyor of the Board, Mr. C. P. Hsueh, Senior As- sistant Engineer, R. Macfarlane, Workshop Superintendent.. Cap- tain K. Kristensen, who will.com- mand the Li Liang, and Mr. F. Wolmar, Chief Officer.

Unusual Features.

A representative of the "North- China Daily News" accompanied

the party on the trials and was shown; the various details of the vessel which is outstanding for, bullt for special purposes, it pos- sesses features not seen on other ships. Shuttling "back and for- waids from the dredger down the river to the wharf at Woosung and doing survey and buoy work as the dredging proceeds, she is a floating storehouse, and, work- shop with special equipment for handling buoys and pumps and. tanks for discharging oil for the dredger at sea. A searchlight and an echo sounding device are other features and the wireless equip ment includes a wireless telephone which will keep the Board's oth- clals in the Custom House in. touch with her.

The vessel has a lower, thain, forecastle and boat deck and the main dimensions are:-Length" overall, 150 ft, moulded breadth 30 ft., moulded depth 16ft, loaded draught 10 ft. She is built of steel to Lloyds Rules, and is subdivided into seven watertight compart- ments. by six watertight bulkheads extending to the main deck. The vessel has a raked stem and cruis- er stern and has been built with two steel decks, sheathed with teak and Oregon pine, the lower deck in way of the officers accom- modation is laid with Insulite...

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