This report is undoubtedly a welcome handbook for mariners and those concerned with International shipping. But there is much in the pages to hold the Interest of the lay~ man, The introduction especially. dealing "with "The Energy "Typhoons," is free from technical details, beginning in a disarming manner with a few stanzas from a poem and ending with a computation of all things—the cost of running a typhoon, The destructive force of cyclones is vividly described on the very first page:
1 press on and rose wha towns and, ces ta, one eta sing 1 destroy' them ote and all In Terms of Coat 'And as for the cost of running a typhoon, Father Gheral introduces the Work of Mr. John Serge Groodin who hag calculated the amount of energy liberated, by' a. typhoon (September 13-10, 1026) in terms of actual power and fuel consumption, After much Dalnstaking' work and' patience, Mr. Groodin Mhally finds that the power generated by this particular typhoon would be equivalent to that supplied bby CNSi44,221,107 290. worth the price of coal being per metic "ton, average Feader, this calculation may seem 10 just a mathematical novelty, but in the words of Father Gherzl t Dalatlon was a "soul metéorotgiel Typhoons in 1080 and 1940", ts profusely illustrated with charts and oak may be too abstruse for the layman, the diagrams" give a graphic idea of the tracks of typhoons and tines continental depressions, Owing to the war conditions, Father Gherzi hag been handicapped' by decrease in the number of ships' log at his disposal but, nevertheless, he has produced what is probably' the most. comprehensive survey of its nature in the Far East.
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