Whampoa to Dredged for Ocean Steamers: Province Schools Lose Through Strikes -Fnont Our Own Conmsrenomre Canton, May 24, Elaborately, a staff of Chinese engineers hav> put together @ programme under which, over a course of 90 years, Whampoa anchorage fof the clipper ships in the Factory @ays, Will be moulded "into an excellent port, Canton's harbour for ocean-going merchantmen. Only ships of very light draught can get over the mudilats and come up to the metropolis; even Whampoa nas too shallow a roadstead to accommodate steamers at all sizeable. shut engineering skill will improve on nature, deepen the Whempoa nar-our, give the port some splenoid warehouses, drydock and all otner needful facilities for handling snipping. And, by railroad, cargoes. will be carried to Canton's Yuethan raile way depot, where they will be distributed to city consignes, or sent over the Yuethan line to North River ports, When the extension of tne line has been finished shipments will go right through to Hankow and Yangtze cities, The initia stage calls for the driving of countless piles, the {oundation for a foreshore or bund a mile in Jengts, and the construction of many wharves along this bund. the Yueinan spur line may not be made until the final stage, years hence, wut godowns will go up, and the rst unit of the city of Whampoa will be Inid out in the not go distant future.
What the planning commission is driving at as the creation of a third rate port with the least possible ess of time, the Improvement of this ort at a later day to a second rate ort, and still farther along putting in the class with the leading ports of the world. Right now at low tide in most parts of the harbour a vessel of eighteen foot draught is in danger of touching bottom, and rodgers will scoop mud from shallow
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