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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

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KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

FRIGIDAIRE

FEES

REFRIGERATORS

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

HUGE DESERT LINER

FOR AFRICA.

TO CARRY 150 PASSENGERS AND BIG CARGO.

WHEELS 50 FEET HIGH.

A strange four-decked craft, to] carry 150 passengers and 200 tona of goods has been designed for new travel routes across the deserts of the world.

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Mounted on cogged wheels 60) feet high it will be 150 feet in length and nearly 30 feet broad.

Searchlights will enable it to ravel by night and wireless will be carried.

"The ship of the desert," the slow, immemorial camel, which hns] carried men and merchandise over earth's dreary steppes and sandy wastes for long ages, has, of re cent years, had its supremacy slightly threatened here and there by the desert-going molor-car and by the aeroplane.

But car and plane can transport: only a fow people, and very simall quantities of goods.

If these were all that engineering ucience could offer to conquer de- sert ways for travel and truly, then the paticut, picturesque, camel- caravan would not be likely to dia- jappear for a considerable time yet. Engineers, however, have of late been facing the problem of trans- port over the world's inhospitable egions, where rallways would be expensive luxuries, and now the Arst "desert liner" in, about to be "ajd' down."

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It is really a 'sort of Nile steamer oh wheels, designed to go where! there are no rails or roads and to carry a aubstantial "passenger, list" as well as many fons, of goods.

It is to be 150"feet in length, nearly 30 feet broad, and 42 feet high. The "reat 50-foot wheels are "cogged," so as to grip perfect- ty, and the "liner" will be driven by two 450 h.p. mutors,

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It will have a "eruising speed" of 15 miles an hour, and strong searchlights will enable it to travel by night. While the fattest routes will naturally be chosen, it is be- ieved it will be possible for it to negotiate inclines up to 30 degrees.

As will be seen, it is to have four decks. On the topmost will be the ["bridge" and the accommodation

for the commander und bis staff, to-| Kolber with a long "promenade deck,"

The two decks below will be oe- cupied by the cabins for the pas sengers, the dining room, the lounge, the reading and smoking rooms, the kitchen and the "hold" for the travellers' luggage.

On the lowest deck will be goods, motors, oil tanks, &c.

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150 Passengers, The liner will be electrically lighted and will carry a wireless in- stallation. It is designed to carry

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LORD CUSHENDUN'S

HOUSE GUTTED.

RELATIVES' ESCAPE-IN 2 A.M.

OUTBREAK. j

CIGARETTES

Cushendun House, Cushhendail, Co. Antrim, one of the residences of Lord Cushendun, at present the neting-Foreign Secretary, was com- pletely destroyed by fire recently.

The fire originated in a pantry, and quickly spread to the adjoining rooms, until the whole house was enveloped.

The house was occupied by Mra.

150 passengers and 200 tons of N. B. McNell, her sister (Mra. merchandise, while its radius of Butler) and her family, relatives continuous travel will be between of Lord Cushendun.

three and four thousand miles.

It will most likely be launched on the "shores of the Sahara Desert: for its maiden voyage to Timbuctoo.

Mrs. McNeil awoke at 2.30 a.m. to find the lower part of the house in flames.

Sho warned her alster, and was able to get her two children, aged i 4 years and 18 months respectively, out of the house before sending for:

A London woman visitor to help. Skegness lost a diamond ring for which her husband paid £50 the previous week, and the finder was rewarded with 6d.

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Police and neighbours made great efforts to put out the flames, but were unsuccessful. Mrs. Mc- Neill lost personal property and Jewellery valued at £200.

A

fow years Rgo Lord Cushendun's old residence, Glen-

A train crashed into a motor-car at a level crossing at Curia, a water-moun, which stood on the opposite side of the road to Cushendun Ing place to the north of Lisbon, House, was completely destroyed killing ve motorists, and injuring by fire. A new house was erected another.

on the site of the old one.

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Shipped by John Harvey & Sons Ltd, Bristol.

CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co, Ltd.

(Incorporated under the Hongkong Companies' Ordinances. 1911-1915.) Telephone 0.75, Prince's Buliding (Ground floor.)

GAY KEE. DAVID HOUSE, Hongkong.

Sanitary Marchant Engineer.

The Charing Cross Bridge scheme, which involves the removal of Charing Cross railway station to the south bank of the Thames, will be considered by the London Council at their meeting soon. A special pan- oramic view of the Thames at Charing Cross, showing immediately opposite the observer the triangular Llan Brewery site to which it is proposed to remove this station. This view, it may be added, gives an excellent idea of the great curve in the river from Tower Bridge (left) to Westminster, (Times copyright),