WORLD SHRINKAGE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3777, 7 November 1907, Page 3

WORLD SHRINKAGE.

Round tha Globe in Thirty-sight days. Latest Development. A further step towards the realisation of the fast “ All-Red ” route of railways and steamers to tire Far East is foreshadowed in the annual report of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, says the Loudon Daily MailAt present the company has two 20 knot steamers of the most modern construction, the Empress of Britain and the Emprass of Ireland, completed in 1906, running on the Atlantic between Liverpool and Canada, and three older 16knot steamers running between Vancouver and the Far East. The directors recommend that the two 20-knot boats lie transferred to the Pacific, and be replaced by larger and faster boats for the Atlantic traffic, or else that , two new steamers be built for the Pacifictrade. • The proposed change, if turbine steamers are built for the Atlantic service, will reduce the voyage to Canada by several hours, while the duration of the voyage across the Pacific should be lowered by two days. In September of last year the mails were delivered in Yokohama by the Canadian-Pacific route in twenty-three days. With the im - provements foreshadowed in the report, and with the acceleration of the Canadian-Pacific trains on the mainland, which will be possible now that the line is being improved and doubled, the mails in the near future should be delivered in twenty days, and it should be feasible to travel completelj r round the world, from Liverpool to Liverpool, in thirty-eight days.