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GREAT WATERWAY
The question of the fiuture control
of the Suez Canal, that great artificial
ahiannel connecting bhe Mediterran-
ean with the Red Sea, is already ag-
itating the tnindts of European states-
men. The fact is the lease is run-
ating out, and new arrangements will
have to be entered into regarding its
management, control, and protection.
Before dealing :with these questions
SONIC reference to the history of the
famous waterway will be appropriate;
The' Suez Canal has .ceiitaitvly been
to the rfare of late. It is by ,this water-
way that I'tal'y transported her troops
and munitions to her 'East African
colonies. It is the opinion of many
that if the canal could be closed it
would 'bring hostilities in 'Abyssinia
to an etid, By international agree-
ment the waterway is "open to all
vessels in time of war as in time of
peace without distinction of •flag,"
That rule has always been upheld,
In .11914 some 'German ships reached
the canal before the British naval
craft could round them up. The Brit-
ish were camped upon the canal
banks and had fortified' works there.'
Bttt not a shot was fired, When the
.rGertna"n ships emerged from the can-
al, however, they were seized, rfor
"free passage" does not mean sanc-
tuary.
In his memoirs, M. de Lesseps, the
creator and builder of this historic
waterway, tells us how the project
demanded of him .five years' study
and meditation in his closet, four
years of investigation on the spot, and
eleven years of patient toil, not ao
mention an expenditure of some
£1117,000;000. An army .of 1301000 lab-
ourers had to be collected and housed
and fed in a wilderness. Indeed, the
fresh water for the workmen had to
be brought on the 'backs of camels
•from places as far distant as Cairo.
To make the channel 54,000,{000 cubic
yards of rook, earth, and sand had to
be removed and carted away,
During its course of 1100 utiles the
channel .passes through no fewer than
five 'fakes, Before the water was let
in, however, they were virtually dried-
up depressions. By means of this arti-
ficial waterway the distance •between
Western Europe and India is reduced
froth 1111,579 to 7038 •ntiles..a saving of
Froin seven to ten days in the ,jour-
ney.
It was on November 17, 11,969, that
the canal was opened for traffic. Its
"rentor was sanguine enough to e5ti-
Inate that the tonnage of ships pas -
sins would he three millions in the
Er,t year. and iv',,,ttld he probably
t0iee as mucic daring the secoll'd
year. .\s a platter of fact, only 401
,,. sols used the .ane! during the Iirst
year.. representing an aggregate ton-
nage of 43eS1118, and it was not until
the waterway was nine years old that
the three mnli001 mark was reached,
111 an ordinary year some live thou-
sand vessels make use of the w•aters
vtay.. representing a tonnage of be-
tween 121S,000,00 and 30,000,000 just ov-
er 50 per cent. being British. The dues
paid thy these ships amount to be-
tween 7,000,000 and £44,01100,000. •Load-
ed• ships are charged :6s. 13cI., per ton,
ships iu 'ballast 3s 4d, per ton, plus
Ss. 4d. for each .passenger. Up to the.
end of November. 1033 'Italy had paid
the Suez Canal Company over £l,-
1)00,000 in respect of does upon her
transports and troops,
tLike everything else, it required
experience to find out the most effi-
cient way of .handling the large and
valuable ships that the waterway spe-
cially catered for. For instance; it was
not instil 18816 that ships could pass
through the canal at night. This dif-
ficulty was got over b_v- making each
ship illumine her own coarse by car -
eying a powerful searchlight capable
spreading light four hundred feet
ahead Those vessels which do not
po_.es such lights can hire them on
entering the waterway at Pori Said
and return them on leaving' Suez.
To many the rules governing ships
while staking the pas,aage may seem
somewhat strange. Written informa-
tion as to his ship trust be handed in
by each captain—her name, national-
ity, draught, and ,port of sailing and
destination, as well as his own name,
and the number of passengers and
crew. Warships, too, have to supply
a copy of their muster roll,
Naturally nothing .must be thrown
overboard especially ashes and cind-
ers; also nothing is to 'be picked up,
notice of .any article lost overboard
:being left at the nearest station. No
guns shall be fired, and no steam
whistles :blown, except in cases of ex-
treme danger, One rule also states
that no .burial is permitted in the can-
al thanks, :Alhl sailing vessels above 50
tons inust be towed; above 1150 torus
•they moat talke a pilot, and no sailing
craft .may navigate at night.
Ordinary steamers .snake the pas-
sage of 11100 utiles in sixteen hours.
There is nothing particularly exciting
in 'the trip. 'Entering at Port Said', gone
first :notices the 'trees and shrubs
which are stow •belong planted along
the 'hairless to .protect them. After pas-
sinig through the 13allah rLakes, Lake
tinmsal , ,some 418 miles frotnn Port
Said, Is entered, Here is, situated Is
rnailia, a 'flourishing city 'hoastirsy o
its theatres, hotels, clubs, and restaur
ants, where the officials of the cava
and the pilots reside Forty years ag
?t was a small Arab village,
On each side of the narrow water
Way stretches the rbottndless desert
Here and there are pointed out place
of Biblical and historical interest
;Now and again, 'too, one cabche
sight of a caravan of laden camels pa
tiently wending their way along th
route which has been in use 'for car
tying ,merchandise in this wily for
thousands of years.
A fine plan for givttg safety to all
ships in transit is in operation, touch
resembling the well-known block sys-
tem. The company controls the de-
parture and entrance of all ships, the
order of precedence being wholly in
their hands, by which not only safety
but the speed of mail is ensured. No
ship may demand immediate rpassage
for any reason, but preference is giv-
en to regular mail steamers under
t,nverntatent. control.
The canal is blocked out in clivi -
,1 ,ns, and at the head office in Ismail-
ia a dummy mad'el shows the exact
moving position of everythh'ng afloat.
\o:vessel may proceed until the way
is clear, and a complete system of
telephonic signals ensures this being
done, .along the banks are -mall sea
tions, twelve between Port Said and
Suez, each .furnished with a high
masthead, from which red and yel-
low balls by day, and coloured lights
by night, announce to each vessel
whether to proceed through the next
division or to "tic -up" and wait for
one to go by from the opposite three-
titt:n. Ships coming in the same dir-
ection are not allowed to 1305.1 one 'at
other, Every .five or six miles there is
a short widening, or "gare," where
vessels make fast.
'With all these precautions collision
do occasionally occur, and ships have
sunk and held up the traffic for days.
The most recent striking instance was
the :case of the steamer Chatham,
which took .fire 'and was scuttled. She
had about 1100 tons of dynamite on
board, as well as a supply of detona-
tors. It was decided to blow up the
vessel, and this was accomplished
by means of large mines fired by elec-
tricity. 'l'lie firing station was located
three miles from the sunken wreck,
When the mines were fired an enor-
mous column of water and debris
shot up into the air to a height of a
thousand feet, The crater of the can-
al overflowed the surrounding country
for a thousand yards in every diets. -
tion. and fragments , f the ship were
,iistrlhuted over a utile of 1,200 yard,
ill diameter. Little damage. however
12125 dodo to the 'hanks.
When first opened the canal had a
;evil depth of =e fret, a width at bot-
tom of 70 feet. and a width at water
level of 150 feet. It is now 38 feet
:eels with a width at bottom of 1147
feet. and from ,440 to 3(10 feet in
ri bit across at the water level. 1t is
still tieing deepened and widened. Iu
tort, on this work alone a sum of uv -
re :£.114,000,0011 has been expended
,ince the waterway was opened to
traffic.
Quite apart from enlarging the can-
al, a whole beet of dredgers is con -1
tinually engaged on merely keeping
..he channel ftxt' from sand, In one
year three million .;otic yards of ma-
terial were taken out o: the canal 1.10
these d•red'gers.
1St -spite thy heavy cost of running
the waterway- and keeping it open for
traffic the scheme has been a titian
al success almost from the first, and
Suez Canal share., are always ill 11011
un h: after, By the pm-chaic in :1'875,
r a block of shares originally held by
Ore K Bilis c. rho British Government
b ut't : t r,. o ,.
t i t 1 1 1 a ntt l .tet the stn-
ith .France. in To -day the British
.o+xtnmeut owns some 44 per cent.
,f the share capital, most of the hal-t
.11100 heing held in'I Lance. But .12raice
aid Britain are only controlling the
,waterway Inc the -time being as trus-
tees, Legally speaking, it is an Egyp
tian l'Otrcertt,
'On November 17. 1383, 313 years
from now, the canal passes automati-
cally to the Egyptian. I,Government
just as leasehold •p•raper1y passes
back to the ground landlord at the
termination of the lease, This makes
the question ,of 'c'losing the 'canal a
very complicated one. Innd'eed, unless
the control of bhe waterway were ves-
ted in the hands of the •League of Na-
tions it could not legally ibe done. It
is the opinion of many that this is one
of 'the main reasons why Italy has
not left the League.
'ut'hat the statesmen of the leading
\4aritiln4Pawers are 'concerned about
is what 'arrangements !can he entered
into when the pease terminates. The
stumbling 'block here is E!gypt, who
has declared that she intends talking
the canal aver and controlling. it .her-
self. Such a proposal w011111 not meat
with the rapproval of the leadinglPow-
ers and some compromise will have to
be effected. jMany favour handing the
watiisway over to the League, and
others giving a. joint interest u the
concern with.,Firance and :Great Brits
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As matters stand at present it is
the 'french who run the waterway
and Britain who is its rprotector,
Sontetlung will have to he done to
satisfy Egyptian interests, and if by
then she has been ind,uced to enter
the League the problem may prove
easier of solution than appears to be
the case at ,present.
APRIL FOOL DAY
(Continued from Page 2)
•Naturally, those ifortun'ate !boys
with watches, consulted them fre-
quently as the midday hour approach-
ed, and thus seldom played into the
hauls of their intended •victims.
Of course, Lamb—the delightful'
whimsical Elia--has written enter-
tainingly of Alt Foal's Day. To rgttote:
"The compliments, of the season to
my wotthy'masteks, and a merry first
of April to us all`IMeany happy returns
of the day to you—and you—and
you, Sir—nay, never frown, man, nor
put a long face upon the matter. Do
not we know one another? What need
of ceremony among friends? We have
all a touch of that same—you under-
stand me—a speck of the motley.
Beshrrew the man who on such a day
as this should affect to stand alloff
..,..Pill up a cup of that sparkling
goosc'berryl.,t..1N'ow would I give a
trifle to 'know, .historically and authen-
ically, who was'the greatest TOO/ that
ever liwed..t. ,"
Everything considered, this old
custom of Alprit fooling is well worth
preserving. We are solemn enough,
heaven knows, during the greater
part of the year. To be robbed of our
dignity and for a brief while made the
object of laughter, should" 'be good
for the soul, even as the lily that or-
iental wisdom admonishes the posses-
sor of two loaves of bread to secure
•n exchange for one of them. So let
us continue to welcome the opportun-
ity that the return of the first of April
affords ns—rementbering, if any ling-
ering doubts still hold us back, these
further apposite words from Lamb's
essay on this subject:
"He who hath not a dram of folly
'n his mixture hath pounds of much
worse matter in his composition.,..,
and what are commonly theww•orld's
received fools but such whereof' the
world is not worthy?"
Agricultural implements and. harn-
esses represent a capital investment
of 'front 91800.00 to 512.500,00 on many
farms in Eastern Canada, To secure
the greatest amount of service from
this equipment it is very important
that it be kept in good state of repair.
A little attention and a minimum an-
nual expenditure will be found well
worth while. As a rule, there is suffi—
cient -time' available during the win-
ter to examine all agricultural imple-
ments and put then in good order for
the spring and summer' operations.
Alt temporary repairs should be gone
over to make a good and lasting re-
pair. Care should be taken to protect
ail equinment by the liberal use of
paint and oil for those pants that can-.
not he painted. On the Farnham Ey-.
perimental Station the old off rem0•32
ed front the tractor and the autinito-
hil
e is kept and the parts that cannot
be 'tainted. such as ploughshare her •
row disks, and ealttvatm shovels arc
oiled. This layer of oil given with, a
brush is an excellent protection ag-
ainst rrust. •
'E'v'ery winter an examination i;'''
made df the harness which is %vash-
ed, oiled and finally greased. All ,bro-
ken or sunsets's parts are repaired. In
this way the harness is in order when
the spring work begins and there is
no loss of time.
If this examination is made and the
implements and . harness repaired, it
is surprising what little cost is entail-
ed, and the itnpression will 'be given
that new equipment has been pur-
chased. 'During the rush periods of
The spring and summer it will be
found handy to have the harness and
imp'iements in .good order and ready
to use,
"I suppose," said t'he lady to .the
streetcar •conductor, "11 I 'pay the fare
of my dog the will the treated srthc
same as other passengers and be, al,
lowed to occupya seat."
c"Cif course, tnadaatne," the couduces
for, replied politely, 'he wi'l'l 'be'treat-
ed the sante as 'other passengers and
can occupy a seat, provided he rdoes
not put his feet an :11"
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