Bastelfrica] PORTS ; SHIPPING ; CABLES 71 the Protectorate Government, which , after careful in vestigation, has authorized a scheme of improvements for Port Kilindini to enable it to deal easily and quickly with all the traffic that offers. The scheme, which is temporarily suspended owing to the war, con templates the provision of deep -water piers , at which over a dozen of the largest ships may lie simultaneously and discharge or load cargo to or from the railway trucks, and of all the necessary sheds, cranes, sidings, shunting yards, offices, and appliances that are the indispensable equipment of an up -to -date harbour. It further includes the erection of a roomy Customs House , the arrangement and development of godown plots and sidings, and the construction of all necessary roads and approaches to the harbour.

(6) Shipping Lines The shipping lines which served British East Africa in peace time were the Union Castle , British India, Messageries Maritimes, and the Marittima Italiana, each of which supplied a regular monthly service of mail steamers, while the vessels of the Deutsche Ost Afrika Linie called twice a month . The Clan-Eller man -Harrison Joint Line provided cargo steamers call ing once a month. With India tradewas carried on by the fortnightly services of the Deutsche Ost - Afrika Linie and the British India Line . Coast traffic was conducted by the small steamers belonging to Messrs. Cowasji, Dinshaw Brothers and Messrs. Esmailji, Jivanji and Co. Since the outbreak of war a monthly service of cargo steamers with timber and building materials fromNorway and Sweden has been initiated by the Scandinavia - East Africa Line.

(c) Telegraphic Communications The Eastern Telegraph Company has cable lines connecting Mombasa with Zanzibar, and thence with the coast ports of East and South Africa ; with Aden, Egypt, and Europe ; with Aden , India, China, and