The Chuntze does not work in factories and so the only individual who knows by intuition is not available, Hence it was decided to send a number of boys to Shanghai and Wusieh to be apprenticed there craft of Tweavlog. These boys started in and bring back the secrets of the art and Javuary overland to Hankow, but had only reached the southern borders of Shanai when the whole party, being recalled by telegram, they returned. Indecision in the councils and unwillingness on the part of some high officials made it doubtful abandoned, However, the part is to go, whether the enterprise would not be this time vid 'Lientsin. Wf the lads will be settled' in Shanghai and the others in Wusieh, always provided they are not recalled a second time. The leader of the party, with whom I was talking short time ago, told me that Tis, 700 had been sunk in road expenses and travelling on their fruitless journey. Will thelads learn sufficient to do good work and run a mill by fa three years' apprenticeship even at your honourable port? Idoubt it. I am more than ever convinced that European superintendence will be absolutely necessary for many years to come in all undertakings of this character. A superficial training is of little usa to anybody, but especially to a Chinese, who only too readily reverts to type.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.