It was necessary, we were told, that China should put her house in order and remove all restrictions and es to the coal mining industry.
: rnment must do everything possible if it desired to maintain her dignity and keep a hold on China's mining resources. Immediate steps should be taken to revive the com-panics which alrendy had suspended business and closed down their mines.
New coal mining companies. should be encouraged, on as Inrge a scale possible, because capital was; necessary if the company was to be successful. More railway rolling stock should be provided by the Government without delay and full Protection should be given to the panies concerned. Illegal taxation and "squeeze" should—be abolished and reasonable duties only' should be charged. Strict steps should be taken to prevent the seizure ofthe companies' rolling and a propaganda com-should be started with a view to awakening interest in the minds of the people and to secure their support in the: use of Chinese coal and the development of the mines. New railway' ines should be constructed to con-ect with the mines inland. These steps, our informant stated, were! necessary, if China was to maintain her mining rights and if the Chinese mining companies were to continue business.
Each of the British naval buoyt oating on the water has an iron chain Bt feet Jong and three and a aaarter inches thick. to link them an iron ring in the water, This fron ring holds. two. chains, branching off in opposite directions and each 35 fathoms long and three inches thick. Making a triangle, the branching chains not being per: pendicular, but slanting in the water, the distance between their spread at the base is 60 feet and two inches. At each end of this distance, is another iron ving in the water which in tarn holds two other branching stud chains, the set on tone side. measuring 624 fathoms long by two and 11 18 inches thick, land the set_on the other side measuring 50 fathoms long and two and 1) inches thick.
The work of yearly examination done by the Harbour Master's office comprises unloosing the various cables to within a short distance of the anchors. Divers then go down and lock at the anchors, the wear on which is not appreciable during long. periods, owing to their being: sunken 17 feet in the mud, The chains are carefully overhauled eand notes made of the portion which will need replacing in the next year 0 that the material may come out from England during ensuing months, Fellowing the examination of the British buoys, the work will be continued on the buoys of other country's anchors opposite the Bund. asa part of the regular service out by the harbour aus
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