'THE ste, KAOLOCK DOCKED FOR REPAIRS, Mr. Archibald Ruse British Commercial Attache in China, last.
Friday delivered a very interesting Jiccture before the members of the Old Colony" Club on the "Possibili-of Trade Development Mr. Rose said that it was rear pleasure to address an in-emotional club on the subject of China, for some interesting and successful experiments in inter: ational action ud ce-operation Kid been made in China during the last half-century. The Government of the "Model Settlement"
Shanghai, for instance, ducted by an Internat of busy men who gave their time Voluntarily to this arduous task; rud, although the interes: and the citizens of many nations were involved and American interests were ways there was tion' of distribution, In ars, however, there has been remarkable advance in the methods trade, The Chinese have shown great adaptability and enterprise in adjusting modern methods of trade to suit conditions in their own atry. As a result a very offic ent machinery of collection and Vistribution is being built up gra-enolly throughout the interior of China, It is far more efficient and more economical than the old rrethuds of trade. "It ix helping the Chinese farmer tw sell his produce to best advantage, and the Chinese consumer to buy what he needs from distant places at the ehenpest possible rates, It has raised the standard of living in a remarkable way, and it is increasing the real wealth of the country But. the would gain by affording to China that sympathetic support which sh" needs in her present period Uramaitions "and that stability. in China would be a great guarantee for peace in the Far Rast, There no fear of any foreign "domination" in China "nowadays. The Chinese are too strong and tow Fhrewd to permit any veal into Terence in their internal affairs, Disturbing forces are always a Bolshevik propaganda and taiticforeign agitations, The Bolshevik element preaches repudiation of treaties and other foreign obligations, But the Chinese know that the treaties have been a focus stability' during a period has, and their traditional honesty fond good sense will stand them in stead in Judging the right China can be trusted. to Keep a fairly even balance between the blocks: the entrance is 70 feet feet draught at spring tides. This|'veri¢an Chateman had beet' cho: licate and sensitive to disturbing me Her neighbours, Tt is up to those mo. means new machinery of trade is still de befop and 60 feet at the bottom, dock ina present being installed "gq" fed presided over the fences.
Peace and ood overn- ™*, Wish her, well, and who with whil-t the depth of the dock is 26 with electric pumping plant, and] @uncit for the last two years with went in the interior are therefore (er mutual advantages {rom rela: feet 6 inches, "High water over thy when this work is completed, ths] Concerned. Increasingly important trong, one with her, to Keep their a blocks is 23 feet' at spring tides present steam pumping plant' will concerned me tate development of trade oars high, and. to. try and Tie pumping plant is electrically be discarded. There pumps a0: A Ptden Sao tne ta the dependent on the healthy develup- China with driven, while the
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