Alone: Many Strange Finds Shanghai owes its continued exist ence as a port for large steamers to. the work of the Hydrographic Department of the Chinese Navy, whose history "was outlined on Friday, excellent "pilots; and to. the Whangpoo Conservancy Board; and, of course, to the Coastal Inspectorale of the Maritime Customs, The estuary of the Yangize is ceaselessly) About 8 year ago officials of the Hydrographic Department walked" dryshod. over Channel is now mostly muddats at low tide. Islands by the Customs and various conservancy organizations. This proved, however, to be a makeshift policy, Inndeauate to shipping requirements, The surveys thus made were often amateurish in kind, local in nature, costly in effect, and unadaptable in the "world's hydrographic circles owing to the absence of geodetic con rol and sequence, When, after the war, there was a great development In China's maritime provinces and in China's trade in, ger Glamour for hydrographic service.
In 1922 Government Iexislation in~ augurated the Hydrographic Depart= fof the tides swept the mud elsement of the Navy. The new depart where, ment immediately took up the Another is the ancient site of Government's responsibilities for state Paoshan City. Piles of masonry, Membership. of the International Marked on the charts as rocks, now Hydrographic Bureau its new. service, Numerous. naval and organized sian stand as a lonely reminder of a cit lonely reminder of 8 officers were gent abroad to Europe, America, and Japan to be trained In the science of hydrography, geodesy, the "tides, and magnetic survey. Several were also trained as aviators and alr photographers.
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