WORLD SHRINKAGE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8872, 5 November 1907, Page 7

WORLD SHRINKAGE.

ROUND THE GLOBE IN THIRTYEIGHT DAYS. LATEST DEVELOPMENT. A further step towards the realisation of the fast "All-Red" route of railways and steamers to the Far East is foreshadowed in the annual report of the Canadian Pacific Railway Companv, says the London Daily Mail. At present the company has two twenty-knot steamers of the most modern construction, the Empress of Britain and the Empress of Ireland, completed in 1906, running on the Atlantic between Liverpool and Canada, and three older sixteen-knot steamers running between Vancouver and the Far East. The directors recommend that the two twenty-knot boat 3 be transferred (o the Pacific, and be replaced by larger and faster boats for the Atlantic traffic, or else that two new steamers be built for the Pacific trade. > 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 twentythree days. With improvements foreshadowed in the report, and with the acceleration of the CanadianPacific 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 completely round the world, from Liverpool to Liverpool, in thirty-eight days.