Vancouver, Apr. 10. fore naval base project as'siothing™
Mr. Norman Lambert, manager Short of a national calamity, ofa Winnipeg, who passed through diate dangerjleading Australian large milling "in While of anticipating any imme:
hero on his return from a trip to felt convinced, said Mr. Rogs, that China, said he was mach impress:
by' the fact that the price of flour and grain in China i lower than Hatt rice and wae our ised. He found' that, Canadian prised at the large quantity bein
flour is now going 1,000 miles into the interior of the country, Canae chas flour trade "in. the Orient had. increased by 195 "percent, United States By. 15 por cent, The only danger to still furl Slvanoowent in Ge. Canedi grain and flour trade in China, says, in the. possibility of 2 before long. getting. back into ite stride an enter big. scale in the Par ast. and the effects' of stabilization of European. affairs on world: com merce generally, BILLIARD OHAMFION cOMINO, Mr. H. W. Steventon, England's ex-champion billined player, was] the decision of the Labour Government in Britain would mean heavier taxation for' defries measures in Australia, ' To Doth Australia: and Now Zealatid naval base at Singapore was considered to-be of great strategic portance, Australia has 12,000"
les of coastline, and a popula~ of only six millions to pay, its defence, Mr. Ross was that the turning of hugd sums into instruments of defences would hamper trade generally and, retard the material development of wide areas of unsettled coun; try that are without moans of communication with the seaboard, CHINESE OAMMLERS! HSciPE, Omission by the prosecution to have proved that paraphernalt found in a house at Mission, neon
that' fan tan is " game of chance, here, was asd for gambling, and at such depth, where all 33 shrouded in blucrgreen darkies. pent now lett in the ielends time to weaving: There were near the hole. The couple have imported much humour into the azuong the best known saloon p: sergers who sailed to-day aboard resulted in 27 Chinese "having Ju. our youre the proud Fleet hay vndergono "'s strange sea change," No longer have these battleships! the, appearance of things that once tloated—they lio covered with a rank growth of marine vogetation, a tangle of scweeds, bar naeles, and marine reeds. ' How will these vast metal hulls. be raised! Probably the method of force pumps will be used, whereby the water is expelled from. the! hulls by terrific jets of air blown through a dynamited aperture. This air current drives the water from the hull through a second aperture. The vessel lightens, strains upwards, heals over, ani the major part of the work 8 accomplished. How long will it take to raise the German Fleet? Probably five or six years, Divers working at 20 fathoms can remain under water but an hour, and of ihis short. period 30 minutes are! voquired to draw the diver: from the bottom to the light of day. Impeded by the heavy diving suit und gear, work is very slow, oven with "modern apparatus such as the oxstorch, by means of which oven armour' plate cun be melted Bub one factor is in favour of the salvage operations. None of these ships were "holed." Thi hulls are intent, They wore sunk by. the deliberate opening of the peacocks, here will conse: quantly be no laborious bung! up of vast. rents such as has to be one in the case of torpedoed ships, or ships, Which" have] foundered on rocks. The craft which lic in shallow waters "will be salved probably by w different method. At low tide great pon cons will be placed on either side Of the wreck, under which the divers will sink thick cables of steal. These cubies will be attached to the pontoons, and drawn ght. As the tide comes in the pontoons will be raised, a h them the submerged shi process. will be repeated each tide water, these until the, hill shows above the ships asked, There them, so. there is cor! no billion
Vast quantity of _valeable metals, which will more than repay the salvage operators if they. succeed in their gigantic task of raloating one of the] Dignest fleets that ever sailed forth to do Bittle, and certainly the biggest Flect.'to sail into a foreign port to surrender and sink without doing battle.
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