was learned that Council have for some tine been contemplating this move. Owing to the heavy impact on the roads. of solid tyred vehicles, there has bee! more damage caused to the surfaces than, in view of the many modern inventions which enable heavy Wwe ights to be borne on the pneumatic, is considered necessary at this stage Also, there has been a lot of unnecessary vibration through the eads."Theoretieally the perfect road should be able to stand all the vibration any vehicle can give it but it is an unfortunate fact that we are still some distance from Faving these theoretically pertes roads. Even an official of the P.W.D. admitted as much yesterday.
The fact is that the majority of makers of trucks are now catering for the pneumatic tyred vehicle and the Council does not see why its streets should not have some of the benefit. When we raised the question of railless trams and the old type of omnibuses, we were told that these were operating under an old agreement, but that so far as "buses were concerned, the pneumatic tyred bus is replacing the old type stead: ly But in view of the damage done to the ronds, especially for instance, in Kiangse Road near Nanking Road, we pressed our inquiries further the vailles trams. To the lay the furrows caused in the road fat the corner of Kiangse and Roads is greater damage than might be caused by a flock of light lorries. Tt was explained that just at the corner of Nanking and Kiangse Roads there is a concentra: tion of services." At ral raillest tran persons are wreck occurred just after while the Libia was anchor just off Woosung waiting survivors from the Italian destroyer Muggia which was wreck Heachu Island near Foochow st "Survivors from the -fated Kang-fand is also a total loss. arrived in the Customs Revenue Cruiser Likin and were interviewed on board by a representative of the "North-China Daily News." They. presented a forlorn appearance and. some told pitiful tales of their adventure, Carried on to the Ram It appears that the Kangtai left Vladivostok with a full cargo suspen logs (matchwood logs) and approached Woosunie just. before noon. The Mahan man-of-war-Libis was anchored about one mile off the Ureakwater and the Kiangtai was seeking an anchorage. -As_she nached the Libia, she apparently reduced speed and the strong ood tide swept the vessel on to the underwater ram on the bow the man-of-var ripping a huge there, and the combined weight of them all mont have ita effect. This Jconcentration makes "the railless {tram appear to-do more damage than it actually dos, We jorstand that recent impro-cements vre-making put the proposition that all vehicles of a gross weight not exceeding 12,000 1b. should be equipped with pneumatics quite within the bounds of reason-
And, as it was point. pneumatic tyre may prove a check on the overloading of lorries of which we have had quite mber of eases recently; fow would care to risk the tevetion of a Tls. 50 tyre just to little more weight than. their od to carry: th t of commission, the engines starboard anchor was dropped but at this tinie—a matter a list to starboard ed with—startling were all made warm and dry and fed. All reports show that it was extremely lucky that the disaster did not occur at night as the loss of life in such an event would have been dreadful, damage was on the ter. Panic reigned there being 88 passengers, 12 of whom were foreigners and the ship's crew consisted of 40 hands.
Men, women, and children 3a into the water and the confusion was appalling. The Libia had ale ready lowered boats and many Mahan sailors dived into the sea and rescued many souls taking them into the lifeboats and then to the war vessel, Reports show that the bravery exhibited and the conduct the officers and men from the The Wreck of the Muggia To return to the wreck of the man-of-war Muggia, this accident occurred in a dense fog and the captain and crow of 75 were rescued. by the N.Y.K. str, Matsumoto Mara, This tatter is a freight, steamer of 7,000 tons and the position of the Wreck is approximately 230 miles from Shanghai off the Heachu I land, "Tt was while waiting for the survivors from this wreck that the Libia was involved in the accident recounted above, man-of-war was magnificent. But for their prompt action many more lives would have been lost, as nothing but. the bow of the Kangtai was visible ten minutes after the occurrence, In 40 minutes the vessel had completely disappeared and she now lies in the fairway in ten fathoms.
Staict orders have been tasued by the Gendarmerie Commissioner, Gen. Hsiung Hsi-hui, to the effect that no strikes or public demonstrations will be tolerated and that no public meet= ings must be held without his per Help from the Likin Tt was at the time when the I-fated vessel was' about to isa that the Customs Rev ence Cruiser Likin appeared on scene.aving noticed the disaster when ata distance of about three miles. She first noticed the Couds of steam and the vessel heel: ing over with the sea dotted with oats. She put ona big turn of 'THe Commissioner of Foreign Affairs has addressed a letter to the Senior Consul, requesting him ts issue orders to' the Commisiioner of Police to seal all gambling dens and "wheels" in the Settlement without 1
Gex, Feng Vu-hsiang, says the speed and arrived in time to save vernacular press, has drawn many.
She had just come from {programme by which he proposes another wreck which took place 13!{o Inild 300,000 it of highways in miles off Wonsune in which the str. conceal China within ten years. The i is a total loss, [most important of these—will be Frantic efforts to save all between Chengchow and Hankow, made h officers and crew of the Houchowts, Lanchow, Taiyuan and: Likin and their efforts an seriied Tungkuan, respectively, addition by survivors as magnificent. this to which there will be smaller time also an American de ruyer one roads, The General further pro-peared on the scene sand fuses to establish a number of fae-Observing, however, vat the Tiki tortes for the ontowt Of haliyg_ and the Libia had the situation wel! ducts,
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