Much Business Likely to Be Transferred to Chinese Sir Sidney Barton, recently Consul-General in Shanghai, and now appointed British Minister to Abys-sinza, was last month the chief guest at the quarterly luncheon of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, Sir Sidney said that in China they were trading in a country not only; far removed from their own coun try, but they were trading in the midst of a civilization, ancient and important, but entirely different from their own, Tt was not to much to say that they were, in fact, me terpreter of one civilization to the people of another, Shanghai was ideally situated geographically. Whereas other trad. ing centres were practically all little groups of people given or taining as best they could lodgment fon the fringe of existing Chinese cities. In Shanghai the' original Chinese city was very small, while to-day the port of Shanghai wag about the sixth in the world, wit of shipping going la y year,
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