The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-11
BRlTONS PLAN TO SEARCH SEVEN SEAS
 FOR IlN KNOWN ROCKS
Cotton Spinners Try India As Field to Double Cotton
 Supply For Mills.
Practically Ali of British Navy Will Pass In Review E
 Before King.

London, July 11.-Six years att sea
 and a voyage of 21o.oOO miles to hunt and chart islands, reefs and banks of doubtful location is what the British Antarctic and Oceanographtca1 Expe-
 dition now proposes to do for the ben 1 eft of the worlds merchant marine Originally, Sir Ernest Shackletons and
 J. Foster Stackhouse intended only to
 survey and chart the coast of the Ant arctic continent, looking for such men l aces to shipping as might lie on their voyage down and back. But the charts disclose so many points mark ed D., IF. D., and E. D.-A-aoubtful, Iiposition doubtful and txistence doubtfl1l-that the explorers have ad- ded two and half years to their
 projected voyage. which starts next December in the Discovery.
 The seven seas have never been ac-
 curately charted because. says MT.
 stackh ouse, being every bodyss bus
 mess, it was nobody's business to do it.'' Even the north Atlantic has its ] doubtful islands and sunken rocks | Four different mariners, previous to
 the Titanic disaster, reported seeing
 rocks near the point where the ship went down, and this is one Of the ] first things to be investigated by the
 Discovery. Polynesia, Melanesia and
 Malaysia are notorious for volcanic
 and coral obstructions, and the Pana.-
 ma Canal will open new routes
 through these dangerous seas The li South ~Am merfcan and African coasts have their doubtful rocks. Mr l Stackhouse considers it just as impor-
 tant to find out that menace does
 not exist as that it does.
 The new sea chartings expedition. is
 financed by public contr5butio ons- Its fifteen officers and scientists have giv-
 ers their work for the next six years
 gratis. The only expenses besides the equipment are those inctdental to running the ship and the pay of \ the wNrof nineteen men. The fore
 most hydrographeri of Great Britain, Capt J A Rupert-J ones will have
 Humphreys will do the land survey l ing Various other kinds of scfeu- tifc work are planned includ ding ob-
 servations as to the magnetic pole. Existing charts. disclose facts
 which have disturbing influence on
 trahlc, such as the presence of shall | low surroundings in areas Of deep
 water. Such places will be carefully
 searched for submerged rocks. All
 corners of the world will be visited
 and studied by the expedition.
 The Discovery Is a wooden ship
 with steam auxiliary. especially de signed for work in icy waters, and she will carry the latest sound ding ma chinery. While the voyage is plan ned to last six years, the officers and crew are signed on for seven In event of delays. fI Tn the hope of some day securing a. raw cotton supply independent of
 ton of Master Cotton spinners and
 Manufacturers Association has
 launched a scheme for the estab- | lishment of model cotton planta- ton in Punjab, India
 Considering the advances already in India. 1t is estimated that be- fore many years the Indian crop will be almost as large as the American crop. The model plantation in India will demonstrates the benefits which arise from intensive farming, there
 by Encouraging the landed proprie-
 tors to adopt this system and to inn
 prove the yield Der acre and the quality of the fibre.
 The land will be sown with as large al percentage of American cotton seed as possible, and the Agricultural De- l partment of Punjab will have the
 right to purchase any of the surplus
 seed produced which is not required l for the estate, for distribution in
 other districts.
 The Federation has secured a tven-
 ty years lease of 7.5oo acres close to
 the railway and water supply. A J modern ginning mill is to be erected, | tions in the vicinity, model villages are bto be established for the workmen, who are to be brought in and in- structed by experts.
 Leading members of the Federa1 | ton believe that within a few years
 1t will be possible to increase the In dian cotton crop to ten million bales
 without ,encroaching on the area re- l Quired for food Manufacturers in
 all countries using Indian cotton are
 subscribing to the project.
 All the British fleets and hotillas 1 in Home Waters which now-a-days
 means practically the whole of the British Navy, has been ordered to be
 at Spithead on July IT to spend a
 weekend and pass in review before
 Admiral of the Fleet, King George V. The mobilization, which is in the nature of a test, is this year taking the place. of the usual manoeuvres,
 which the present Admiralty Board
 has decided can teach the officers nothing that they do not know al- l ready, besides being a very heavy ex- | pense. The ships and auxinaries, 1 the, largest fleet ever assembled, will | include every class of vessel from the | big dreadnougat batt1eshfps to the
 smallest submarines. aeroplanes and 1 hydroplanes.
 1 The spot is an ideal one for the as-.
 sembnng of a great fleet, the one
 stretch of water in the world that
 seems to have been designed by na- ture as the frame for great naval pa
 geants. It gives the public, as we'll
 as the officers and men, an opportun- tity of seeing the great fleet the up- keep of which costs the British tax
 payer so much, gathered together as though ready for actual warfare. for
 every ship will be so manned and out I fitted that she could go into ir1me-
 dfate battle. The reserves will be
 called out and the cadets from Os- borne and Dartnolth Colleges win
 be embarked, as they would in war
 times, and after the~King has con cluded his visit, they will go for a
 short cruise with the entire fleet. l Seeing with the ears is the latest l t1i11r,aral -nf science in inc iruartinr