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Show oo No Place for a German, and That Is Pleasing Pleas-ing Berlin. Dec. 23. The bitterness and disappointment of the Pcn-Gcnnans over tho failure of Germans to ac-quiro ac-quiro a part of Southern Morocco (tho Sus teiritory) in the negotiations with Franco may find sumo alleviation allevia-tion in the report of the scientists of the Hamburg-Moroccan company of Hamburg on their explorations in the Sus. In this report, laid before the directors di-rectors of the company, it Is declared that neither the climate nor the soil conditions of Southern Morocco fit It for colonization nor even for agriculture.-. .The- existence--6C sdme-bads ,of Iron ore. l-jeparlcdr-djut(hoinvestl--fiators are not able to say definitely whether thp ore exists in workable quantities and qualities. They are ot the opinion, however, that none of the concessionaries of iron mines in Southern Morocco had yet discovered deposits of profitably workable ore. The company decided, in view of the report, to make no further efforts at this time toward the acquisition ol land in that territory, However, further fur-ther investigations Into the metallic resources of the country will be made. Germany now has in operatiou seventeen sev-enteen dirigible balloons, eleven belonging be-longing to the army and six to private owners. Nine othters are being guilt or rebuilt and will be In service by tho end of the year. Many types are represented, but the Zeppelin and Par-soval Par-soval predominate. Franco has but ten dirigibles, Austria-Hungary four. Russia five and Spain and Italy two each. In their constant search for means of increasing the efficiency of army balloons In tlmo or war the German military authorities have equipped tho newest Zeppelin army balloon with an anchor which Is expected to make it possible to land on any ground and under any but the most adverse wind conditions Tho destruction or tho Zeppelin II at Bellburg followed the tearing of the balloon loose from Us moorings. Tho new anchor barf been tried out in a wind of' twenty to twenty-five miles an hour, and It worked to porfection. At a meeting of the Society of German Ger-man Naval Architects a new kind of screw propeller for ships was described. de-scribed. Tho inventor is Dr. R. Wagner, Wag-ner, tho chief engineer of the 'Vulcan 'Vul-can Works," of Stettin, which has built most of the fast Gorman ocean liners. Tho invention consists of a second piopcllcr mounted behind the working propeller, but not itself revolving. re-volving. Its blades arc set In the reverse re-verse direction to those of the real propeller, and have the function of checking the swirling movement of the water set in motion b them, which involves in-volves a considerable loss of power. Stated In other wordB, the becond propeller pro-peller tends to hold the water In position po-sition so that the revolving blades of the working propeller can act upon it with greater force. Dr. Wagner said that tho invention inven-tion had been in use for some tlmo on a number of small vessels and that the experiments had showed that It affords an average saving of 15 per cent In power over the old roun ot propeller. The Reichstag has given the fhst loading to a bill appropriating above $11,000,000 for completing the Central Railway of German East Africa to UJiji on l.akc Tanganyika. The road in already In operation to withiu 83 miles or Tabora, the chief trading center of the table-land south of Lake Victoria Nyanza, and will loach that town next spring, a distance of .120 miles from its stnrting point at, Dar-ca-Salam ou the coast. From Tabora to Ujiji is another 255 miles, making a total length of .lie road 7fl( miles. It is planned lo establish es-tablish a motor-boat or btoamboat , service on Lake Tanganyika after tho road reaches Ujiji, and it is bolieved that a consldorablo freight traffic for I' can be built up on. this great inland in-land sea of 400 miles in length, as thoie are various promising agricultural agricul-tural regions adjacent to it. 'Continued on Page Six.) MOROCCO'S POOR LAND (Continued From Page One.) Great hopes are also entertained In connection with 'he plan of the Belgian Bel-gian government to build a railway from Bull on tho Lualaba Congo to AlbertviHe, situated on the western 6hore of Tanganyika about 30 miles from Ujlji, This will open up quick connections with the groat copper region re-gion of Katanga, which is Jusi now reaching the stage of production. It is believed thai considerable freight and passenger traffic can be drawn from that district through East Africa, as it offers a much shorter route to Europe Eu-rope than the existing one via Belra on tho Portuguese east coast, at least 700 miles south of Dar-os-Salam. Or course if the English "Cape-to-Calro" railway, projected by Cecil Rhodes, is ever completed, this new German road will derive great benefit from it, although thai line may take away much of the European pnssenger traffic. traf-fic. ' The German government expects that the completion of the railway to . Ujijl will glvo a strong Impulse to cotton-growing and other agricultural agricul-tural Interests along Its route and In tho districts adjacent to the lake. A. commission has just returned from Investigating tho agricultural possibilities! possi-bilities! in that part of Kast Africa and has reported that it found various localities lo-calities that arc well adapted for growing cotton, as well as for rice, palms and peanuts. There aro also regions rich in cattio. 00- |