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Communications Progress In China

NANKING TO HAVE NEW

OMNIBUSES

total $700,000, of which $400,000 will be appropriated by the Provi- slonul Headquarters of the Presi-

mission and, $300,000 by the Kal cnow Provincial Government.

A shipment of 20 out of 50 oinnibuses, ordered by the Klang.dent of the Military Affairs ComTM "nan Motor-Service Company from Germany, recently arrived in the capital. The new bures will be used in the local city serviçə

WUHU-TANGTU LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE SERVICE

INAUGURATED

Long distance telephone service linking up Wuhu and Tangta (Talping), Important ports along the Yangtse in eastern Anhui, was officially put into operation on November 25

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TO FOSTER BETTER COMMENT- CATIONS IN THE NORTH-WEST

In order to foster better. com- munications in the Northwestern provinces, the Sulyvan-Sinklang Motorbus Company is planning to operate services on the

Slam Lan chow-Hsining (Kotonor), Lan- chow-Hami (Sinklang) and Lan- chow-Tinchow (Kansu) High-

(Sbensi)-Lanchow (Kansu)

Ways

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CHEKIANG HIGHWAY

STATISTICS

of

A 'total of 3,046 kilometers

traffic in highways now open to

Cheklang province, according to the latest statistics compiled by the Highway Bureau of the Na- tional Economie Council. 2,129 Kilometers are operated by the Provincial Government and 917 kilometers by private interests.»

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TO INSTAL SIAN-PACHI TELEGRAPH LINES

Installation work on, the Slan- Faochi section of the projected Shensi-Szechuan Inter-Provincial Telegraph Service was begun on November 22 following the arrival of a large consignment 'bi mate- rials. The Ministry of Communi- cations has despatched an engi- nver Nancheng (Hanchung), southern Stiensi, and Kwangyuan. northern Szechuan, to superviss

to

the work.

CITY TELEPHONE SERVICE FOR STAN Installation of a city telephone service, in Slan, provincial capital of Shens, has been completed. The service will be in operation in December. The Shensi Provincial Government has also instructed the District Governments in the Kanchung Area, communication center in southern Shensi; to has ten the completion of their tele- phone systems before the end of the year

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TO CONSTRUCT PENGESIEN- CHENGTU LIGHT RAILWAY' IN SZECHUAN

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For the purpose of exploiting the copper ores in Penghisien, north- eastern Szechuan, the Provisional Headquarters of the President of the Military Affairs Commission 1s planning to build a light railway linking up the district with Cheng- tu. the provincial 'capital. An en- gineering corps has been despatch- ed to make surveys. Construction work is to be started in February and completed in July next, 1 F

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SWATOW INCLUDED IN PORTS OF CALL FOR LAND-WATER THROUGH TRAFFIC

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By arrangement between Lung-Hai Railway Administration and the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company, the impor- tant port of Swatow in Kwangtung will be added to the number of ports of call for land and water through-traffic. In order to en- courage business, freight rates for the through service between Tsing- tao and the various stations along the Lung-Hai Railway will be con- siderably reduced as from Decem-

ADDITIONAL FREIGHT SERVICES

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PLAN TO REVISE THE OPERA- TION OF TONKIN-YUNNANFE »

RAILWAY

Sino-French conference for the revision of the Convention' re- of the lating to the operation

Railway and Tonkin-Yunnanfu radio pervice along the Indo-China border will be shortly held at Kunming (Yunnanfu),

FOR LUNG-HẢI RAILWAY To relleve traffic congestion and expedite the export of agricultural products to the coast from the.. Northwestern provinces, train ser- vice on the Tungkuan-Bian exten- son of the Lung-Hai Railway, in eastern Sherial, was augmented on November 21 by the addition of three freight services. on the sec- Lion

Yunnan-

KIANGSI HIGHWAY STATISTICS

More than 10,000 11 (about 3,500 miles) of highways have been com- pleted in Klangsi province, it is

announced by the Provincfal De partment of Reconstruction. Out of this total, over 7,000 U (about 2.300 miles) have been opened to... public motor traffic. The month- ly revenue from the omnibus ser- vices exceed $240,000. In order to keep the farmers of Klangsi oc- cupled between seasons. the Pro- vincial Department of the road- beds and bridges.

TRAIN SERVICE ON TUSHAN- NANCHANG RAILWAY TO

BE INAUGURATED

December 20 has been fixed by the Cheklang-Kiangs! Raliway Ad- ministration as the date for the Inauguration of train service on the new section of the line between Yushan and Nanchang, in enstern Klangal, Special significance is attached to this development, as not only will trame be facilitated in Klangsi but direct railway com- munication between Hangchow

and Nanchang, provincial capitals of Cheklang and Kiangsi, will be established"

PROJECTED ROUTES FOR SIEN- YANG-TUNGKWAN HIGH-

WAY. SURVEYED

Two possible routes for the pro- jected railway between Slenyang. on the western extension of the Lung-Hai Rallway, and Tungkwan, coal mining centre in northern Shens, have been surveyed by the engineering corps of the Railway Administration. Omnibus service .on the Fengslang-Pacchi-Feng- bsten section of the Slan-Han- chung Highway, in north-western ghenst, was recently opened to traffic.

LAYING OF RAILS ON CHAO- HSIEN-YOCHICHEN SECTION OF HUAINAN RAILWAY COMPLETED

With the laying of rails com pleted on the last section of the Huainan Railway between Chao- hsten, on the eastern shores of the Chao Lake, in central Axhűl, and Tuchichen on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, opposite. Wuhu, better and cheaper facilities will soon be available for the transport of coal from the mines in northern and central Anhui to

the port of Wahu Since the operation of train service between Hvalyuan' and Chaohslen, and the institution of land and water through transportation between Chaonsten and Wuhu, the export of coal from the Huainan Ares has Increased considerably this, year,

SZECHUAN-HUNAN HIGHWAY

TO BE COMPLETED The 'Szechuan-Hunan Inter-Pro- vincial Highway now under con- struction will be completed' `in spring. In order to speed up com- munications between Chengtu, provincial capital of Szechuan, and Chungking, important port in Bureau of the Provisional Head- eastern Szechuan, the Highway

quarters of the President of the

Military Affairs Commission has decided to improve the roadbed of the highway linking the two cities and put a large fleet of omnibuses on the route in January.

PLATINUM METALS IN

CANADA

Last year 200,162 fine oz. of platinum metals were produced from Canadian ores, as compared with 55,795 oz in 1933. The ores HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTIÓN IN come a most entirely from the

A WESTERN KUICHOW

copper-nickel mines of the Sud Work for the construction of a bury districts of Ontario, and the 'redning is carried out in Euro- systems of highways in the western

pean metallurgical plants. Re- mart of Kulchow has been started atively small amounts of ple under the direction of the Protinum are also recovered annually vincial Department of Reconstruc- from treat-gravels in British Hon. The expenses for the project

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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1935.

ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

IMP. AIRMAIL THE WORLD'S SMALLEST

SERVICES

EMPIRE COMMUNICATIONS. SPEEDING UP

New Fleet Of Flying

Boats Ordered

The following is a reprint of part of an article, which appear- ed in the Singapore Straits The Times, 5th December, 1935. article dealt mainly with the heavy Increase of many over tion of the Imperial Airmall six Christmas, necessitating duplica-"

vices in and out of Malaya,

"Comparative Schedules.” Now that the KLM. (Roya Dutch Air Line) has reverted to its winter schedule the difference between the Dutch and In- perial air mall deliveries is very slight.

An examination of the two "time tables shows that the re- spective times required to get

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return letter from London

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Dutch 16 days 12 hours. Imperial 17 days 18 hours. The difference in time be- tween the two services is re- duced by the fact, that the con- lecting mail to London from Amsterdam does not leave until the day after the arrival of the K.L.M. plane from the Far East. Most of the mal carred the Dutch liners for Ho::and.

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BREWERY PLANT

Experimental Brewing At Birmingham University

The experimental brewing plant to be displayed at the Brewers' Exhibition in London last week was said to be the smallest work- ng brewery in the world, and was seen in operation for the first time.

outlet cock is arranged to take a sparge nozzle of special design. This nozzle was required tol atomise one gallon of water per hour at a pressure of one atmos- phere, for sparging the hop backs, and air entrainment, was not permissible, owing to the tem- the In-perature drop which this would cause. The problem was solved by impinging a high velocity let to B fat disc suspended

search Committee of

"Under the auspices of the Re-

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The converters are also in- surated. closed vessels. with a removable grist case and spiral type stirrers, driven by 1-50th h.p. variable speed motors. large sliding gate type outlet en- sures rapid and complete dis- charge of the contents, Ther mostat control and temperature recording is included in the de sign.

water

stitute of Brewing. It was recent- ly decided to set up an expert- mental brewing plant at Birming- ham Un versity. the entire cost beneath the nozzle and enclosed being defrayed by Sr William- by the skirt of the vesse', so that Waters Butter. whose interest ir aparging is carried out in n browing research so well- heated atmosphere. known.

The

of plant, constructed stainless steel throughout, by the Aluminium Pant and Vesse' Co. Ltd., Consist of four units,each' a complete brewery, mounted on uprights fitted to an enamelled cast iron base. Heating and temperature: control is electrical throughout, partly by make and break contactors thermostatically operated, and partly by multi- point hand controlled resistances. mounted L a panel supported, from the base 'n the centre of the brewery. Surmounting the panel is a four point thread type temperature recorder, with e'ght' thermometer bulbs so arranged that a graphed record. accurate to within 1 per cent, of the tem- As is well known. Imperial Air- way's operate their Empire ser- perature range, may be obtained

From "any four vessels at schedule and route vices tu a which is consistent throughout the year: their operating sche- dule is based on a careful study of known weather conditions. and sufficient elasticity is incor-. porated in their time table to ensure maximum regularity given normal operating conditions.

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Imperial Airways do not alter their schedule in the Europe'n winter."

PROGRESS SHOWN

The progressive speeding up of Empire communications by letter air mail, however, remains al ways one of the chief problems for constant study: it was only some 12 months ago that the Arst tangible step towards a rex- lisation of 'all letter mal by air mall was introduced, when SLO exclusive zoning of Imperial

·Alma'l rates to and from the Home country gave the Br tish Near East the equivalent of

3d rate per oz.; and the Bri- tish Middle and Far East the ap- proximate equivalent of Bd. rate each being approximately one halt of the rates previously

charged.

from

Recent announcements London indicate the further tremendous stride which has al- ready been effected to legislate for a letter mall by air mail: a new fleet of no fewer than 29 four engined fiying boats having been placed on order each hay- ing a mail carrying capacity of, 33-5 tons

accord ng to the amount of fuel carried: thus 1037 should see realisation of an Empire wide scheme. which al- ready is under that careful con- struction, which alone has placèu Britain in the forefront of the World's Commercial Air Trans- port.

Continuous Bright Annealing Furnace

Messrs Birmingham Electric" Furnaces, Limited, Birler Works, Birmingham, have installed a fully"- automatic, continuous, bright-annealing furnace for the treatment of nickel, and Monel Metal sheets, at the works of Messrs. Hedry Wiggin and Company Limited. Particulars of the installation are given in a recent issue of The Nickel Bulletin, published by Messrs. The Mond⠀⠀ Nickel Company, Limited, Thames House, MiU... bank, London, 8WL from which we leard that the sheets are placed, in single layers of in only two or three thicknesses, on wire mesh conveyor, which car

•ries than through the 17-heated annealing and then though a long

zime.

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STAINLESS STEEL THROUGHOUT

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The brewery comprises two cold liquor vessels, and four each v.t the following:-Hot liquor vessels,

Fra'n converters, mash runs, boting Proppers, hopbacks setting vessels, open type, wort coolers, and closed counter-dow coolers.

No fermenting vessels are pro- vided, as this operation is to be carried out in spec'ay designed containers which will be of glass

Other- for observation purposes. wise all the vessels, Including cocks, valves and Attings are constructed throughout in sta'n- ress steel.

of each The nett capacity resset is 4 très. Le, approx' mately one gallon for the hot liquor vessel's converters; copper? and hop-backs, 8 litres for the cold. liquor vessels, and 24 Htres for the settling backs and mash tups.

The mash tuns jacketed and thermostatically, controlled to ensure uniformity of temperature, and fitted with i finely slotted false bottom. needle valve and air lift" tube for recirculating wort from the bottom of the vessel over the goods

The coppers are closed, insu'at» ed. and capable of bo'ling under variable pressure up to a maxi- mum of half an atmosphere.- Sight glasses, gare type outlet. and a resistance controlled heater are atted.

The hop backs are alr jacket- ed with duplex heaters and es- cape ports for air circulation. beating being resistance controll- ed. A false bottom. needle valve and af lift tube are also provid- ed and, in addition, a weighted cone, which can be lowered on to the false bottom. to restrict the Alter area and thicken the hop bed.

SETTLING VESSELS

The settling vessels are the equivalent of surface coolers; being fitted with trays which cause the wort to také a tortuous path in passing to the outlet. Insulation is applied to the body and cover and an adjustable faucet and fine neede valve are. fitted

The wort coolers are water jacketed on one side, to give counter-current flow between cooling quot and wort, the wart side being enclosed by a glass door to permit of the pass- age of sterile air. Owing to the extremet Blow rate of · How of wort about one gallon per hour.

dificulty was encountered to establishing and maintaining satisfactory nim, the best .result being anally obtained by sand- blasting the corrugated surface of the stainless steel.

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The cold liquor vessels arc mounted on cross brackets at the top of the brewery, and are provided with a level gauge, an outics acck for serving the hot Equer vesse's and converters, also an air cock for agitation, The remaining when desired. vessels and coolers are carried on cantilever brackets of ep- amelled steel and can be readily moved upwards. downwards, or・ The paranow refrigerators are horizontally on their supporting of tubular construction and con- posts, to command each other in sist or a jacket, with spiral water. sequence of operation; also, they

course, au intermediate sleeve "can be quickly removed for clean-

and a central core, machined to Ing or examination.

give.a tortuous and turbulent water now, this construction in Jaboratory form has been success- The hot-liquor metals are in- fully used for some time. Aera-

INSULATED METALS

sulated, closed vessels, with pres-

aure-tight covers atted with all ing connection and adjustable safety valve; a level gauge and thermostat are provided, and the

tion of the wort is accomplished by means of a and venturi inletubbier bottle

Coming now to the electrical equipment: considerable dimiqui -- ty was encountered in obtaining the thermostats capable of con- trolling the temperature over a discharge table. During the suficiently wide range within the whole of their passage through equired Control to ab- the furnace, the sheets are sur-

proximately plus ut minus 1 rounded by a special inert atmos-

degree Fahr was ally attain- phere, free from oxygen, wate

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