. Factory and industrial management. ss from the Atlantic to the larger ocean, thePacific. England has been and is the world powerin the Atlantic. Her coal mines have furnishedthe fuel for the sea commerce of the world; hercoaling stations dot the Atlantic shores east andwest, in Europe, in the Americas, and in Africa,and from 60 degrees north to 51 degrees sotithXo other power in Europe can rank with England as aXone has the coal, the coaling stations on all oceans. Rus-sia in extent and number of inhabitants is easily the foremost Europeanland power, but everywhere she is hemmed in from the
. Factory and industrial management. ss from the Atlantic to the larger ocean, thePacific. England has been and is the world powerin the Atlantic. Her coal mines have furnishedthe fuel for the sea commerce of the world; hercoaling stations dot the Atlantic shores east andwest, in Europe, in the Americas, and in Africa,and from 60 degrees north to 51 degrees sotithXo other power in Europe can rank with England as aXone has the coal, the coaling stations on all oceans. Rus-sia in extent and number of inhabitants is easily the foremost Europeanland power, but everywhere she is hemmed in from the sea—on thenorth bv the Arctic ice, on the east shut in by the Baltic, on the southshut in bv the Black Sea. on the west even until recently closed in byice. In spite of denials it is readily believed that Russia is willing tofoment trouble between Sweden and Norway in order to acquire fromthe latter a port on the Atlantic, to foment trouble in Turkey in order totake possession of the Golden Horn, to foment trouble in Persia in 161. latitude,sea power. l62 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE.
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