Following his visit to China Bererasd Mussel took it upon Minself to. be uncomplimentary Aout certain foreign clement in the place, He sid something thou the forego. quarter of Shanghat as Weing en example Splines aad eficeney, whitens to iim the Chinese City' represented benny and. much of sentimental Tmport "Thea, a3 now, our Stn: tras ina transition "stags and there wore more unfinished than Completed buildings probly; bat Seem had, it not ben so, we doubt whee he vou hoe' hough worl then of groser lay, {chioned Bind. gives satis Taotgn the move it discards. its Swaddling clothes. The last bit of feaffolding war removed rom the frontage Sof the" North<China Dally News" building some. days {py and we believe that everyone Bie in Tag thes negro rene deal more ofthe Hongkong Bank lits. just. been displayed to publio view and. {impresses while already the dome becomes landmark, Twi yours before the Bond is fished, but dh their work properly fe become of the. world's noted orougtitres in spite of all that 'Bertrand Mussel thinks to the contrary about cur style Going. things Nevertbelesn this palatial way brings with Te cer tain within our fates 28 Siven'as not fails to recopaiae the file. in which "we do. business Within' the past year, shardly titer one ofthe new buildings had een obaned, an' American wsitor tutored the doorway and after a fenny of the hall wayned to the Ghiness porter with: die avery, "ay, guy, where's the evil Yeo in thie boielt® No daube a come iment Seba oral water. there is-m through channel ving a depth of 30+ the of the Huangpu may not first excite the imagination of the nin the street, "but to those who have followed Conservancy tion they convey a great deal. Te hare since their ince:
that very great success hi fit ended the work inaugurated, tthe first decade of! the century. Then there were the Ship, and Jank Channels, and Gough Island became an island no more. Tu ovder to know the river Dotter the engineers went 20 or 30 miles above Shanghai with instend ments for measuring depths, tides and flow of eater, and at length it Deeame to all intents and purposes! possible to tell what the once way: ward channel would doin any.
iven circumstances. "When we. think that. from 1990 onwards the port of Shanghai was gravely, threatened, its very existence stake heoniise of the silting up of the approaches, weebeycin to realize we owe to the skill and Iatience of the engineers who tack. Fed and carried on the work of tageous and enlightened policy will ten ani a ensure that the the order throughout China, East and West entry into the cussion of Chin's testes and the trampling "thereon did, of quite prepare us for, the char Mie letter" he sends today. He ter 09 one who weal Seyction veiat De preaches sud! hen taken the trouble first to study his text. Hie feeling' that ho docs nat particularly admire foreigners [Remote but none, the less nam 1's some of them among his best the experience " of
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