Simla, Sept. 16.
London, Sept. 18.
The British Economic Mission the Far East will leave London on the Macedonia on September 19. it will reach Shanghai on October 28, proceed to Kobe on October 28, aad xetirn to Shanghai on November 27, where it will stay two months.
Sir Ernest Thompson, the chaixman of the special mission, special interview to the China Daily News" correspondest: this morning and pointed out that everyone was fully aware that British trade in the Far East was aot factory condition. It was ion's "duty, to asserts where the fault lay in the failure to meet the requirements of the: Jarge markets.
The mission earnestly hoped that it would return possessed of inf>.- motion of real value regarding the potential requirements of those ma: ets, and also with definite recommendations for consideration of the home producer.
Sir Ernest hoped that the visit well-being and prosperity, and he Jooked forward to seeing signs of industrial development in China. The mission was, he thought, of a welcome to the mutual a vantage of all parties concerned.
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