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NEW INLAND SEA.

A new scheme for the flooding of a large area of the Sahara Desert south-west of Tunisia and to the west of the Gulf of Gabes has been outlined to the French Government by the eminent Boston business magnate; Mr. Dwight Braman, who was responsible for [tho' great irrigation undertakings

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

1928.

As correctiva of Intestinal

In California in the early Nineties. torpidity there is nothing botter Mr. Braman's African scheme, than Pinkettes. Those dainty If it were to succeed, would open little laxatives likewise quickly up a vast area of hitherto un- banish billousness and sick hand- productive country, for, linked aches, stimulate the liver, restora with the project of pouring the cheerfuluess and clear thinking. waters of the Mediterranean Into Of chemists everywhere, or post an area at present beneath the free, 60 cents the vial, from The level of the sea, is the further plan Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 60, for damming the river flowing Kiangse Road, Shanghal. south from the Aurea and the Atlas Mountains and thus collect- ing rain water för Irrigation' pur-| At poses which is at present lost in The Sahara.

The new inland sea formed would, it is expected, bring more extensive rainfalls and would also serve, as a ready means of trans- port for the fertile lands to be opened up on its borders.

The following details of Braman's plans are now given.

Threo Canals.

Bucks, a Chesham,

refused inquest the Coroner William Arthur Bond his witness fee, remarking: "I can- not help thinking that you know a great deal more about this thon you care to tell. I think you aro withholding a deal of Information, and I am convinced that you set Mr.out that night trying to search for dcecased:" The Inquest was "on Ellen Martha Gomm, a servant, of Chesham, aged 20, who threw her self in front of a train near her. home a few minutes after she had left Bone. A verdict of "Suicide" was returned.

The part of the Sahara which it is proposed to inundate in bounded on the North by the Aures and Tebessa Mountains and on the west by the ridge of high ground whose watershed, runs heights, whereas at present Eur- south-west from Bousaada loopeans can live for only five months Colomb Bechar. The portion of of the year in the north and the the area which can be flooded most natives for only five months of the easily extends from a point 50year in the south. miles south of Biskra and extend- The kind of colonists who went ing east to the coast, a distance of out to América in the early days 236 miles.

would be welcomed for the exploita.. Biskra self is 380 feet above tion of the new country. The new sea level. On the western edge colonists would be supplied with the of the proposed sea the ground most improved plant instead of the falls sharply, so that at 1,200 yarda hand implements which the Arabs from the shore the depth of water have been using from time imme- will be 30 feet. The gentlest slope morial. They would be given farm. is to the north at the foot of the ing concessions and would be taught Aures. The submersible area is intensive cultivation at special given, at 30,000 square miles. In classes on agriculture and on irriga the central portion of this area tion, us was the custom in South the depth below sea level ranges falfa grass were obtained instead

California, where six crops of al of one by applying the principle of "dry farming."

from 65 to 1,000 feet.

Mr. Braman proposes to con- struct and exploit three canals or

the

New ports, with breakwaters, more, the first running to the west would have to be provided at Gabes of the Gulf of Gabes and being 14 and on the north coast, and the ex- miles long, the second, also run-isting ports would have to be con- ning to the west, four miles long. solidated as at Oran. New lines These cannin would link up of boats would also have to be es-

lakes or "chotis,"

tablished to meet the demands of whose existence is due to the further traffic. junction of two systems of draini nge, so that water is always present, though there may be an upper crust, frequently of pure salt up to two feet thick..

Scries of Dykes,

Official Action.

Was

Mr. Dwight Braman's negotia- tions with the French Government in connexion, with his Saharare- clamation scheme are proceeding normally. He addressed a letter on May 26 last to 'M. Albert Sarraut, The country bordering on the the Minister of the Interior, who is "cholls" is known to be very the Minister chiefly concerned, con fertile, only requiring water for taining the gist of his scheme for its development. In order to ex-irrigation, and for the formation of ploit this area Mr. Braman pro- the Sahara company. This poses to build a series of dykes supplemented by a second letter to similar to those built at San M. Sarraut on August 6, dealing Diego in 1890 to hold not only the with the problem of colonisation water which is at present lost in and agriculturat development. the Sahara, but also the water Mr. Braman's proposals have fur- running from the Aures north-ther been the subject of interviews wards, which is lost in the between him and M. Albert Tardieu, Mediterranean,

Minister of Public Works, M. Pain- In all twenty dykes are con-leve, Minister of War, M. Braind, templated if approval to their Foreign Minister, and M. Jules building is obtained from the Cambon, who have all expreased Governors of Algeria, Tunis, and themselves favourably on the sub- Moroeco. Trees will then ject. The essential part of the pro- planted on the hills, where there ject has been forwarded to the Governor-General of Tunisia, the has been no vegetation for over Governor-General of Algeria, and 2,000 years, and this incidentally to M. Steeg, in Morocco, the two it is hoped, will prevent the floode latter districts being also indirectly which often devastate the coun- interested. try in the winter, destroying much

The Governor-General of Tunisia property and at the cost of many is at the present movement engaged lives. It is Mr. Braman's ambition in taking the opinion of the Arab to make of North Africa a con- chiefs who would be affected by the tinent where there will be no more construction of the inland sca. sirocco outside the Sahara and The whole matter will come be where people can live, crops fore the Cabinet meeting when the ripen, and cattle and sheep re- principles Involved will probably main all the year round.

be discussed. Mr. Braman hopes Indian corn would be sown for to receive a definite answer from. the cattle and sweet corn for the French Government as 'to human consumption, while fruit of the acceptability to his project in every description would be grown about a month's time.

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as in California. Mr. Braman In an interview with Mr. Braman, also holds out the hope of cultivat Signor Mussolint, declared, his ing cotton and sugar cane, which scheme to be "A Roman Idea," and would enable France to produce asked to be kept informed us to Ita gun-powder and be independent progress. The creation of Mr. of any other national in that Braman's Inland hea will consider- respect.

ably affect Tripolitania. Factories would be erected, A short note on the subject han worked by hydralie power, utilis been prepared and circulated to the ing the waterfalls which now go to French Press.

waste, and the tribe would haveHard-Ifänded Bostonian. fresh water. and electricity for Mr. Braman, la a tall, white- sanitation, heating, and lighting,haired Bostonian of 67, with friend-' Europe would reap in Africa an ly manners and a singularly lucid! evergrowing crop of corn, barley, manner of setting forth a difficult oats, and would be supplied with a subject. He is eminently a man of new source of beef, mutton, wool, business, and has been a stockbrok and wine; while Algeria, together er. He was largely responsible for with the two Protectorates of Tunta the introduction into America of and Morocco, would afford Franca a the Daylight Saving Dill, which, as still greater means of prosperity he says, enabled two million extra and economic supremacy.

tons of coal to be dug for the use ot the Allies during the war.

Mr. Braman has that combina tion of fine enthusiasm and horse sense tlist is characteristic of New England and has been at the back. of much of America's best work in

European Habitation, Mr. Braman, Indeed, looks for- ward to the time when the desert spaces will be made habitable for Europeans all the year round, both north and south of the Aures the world, "

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