League of Nations Engineer Thinks Task Not Impossible: Dangers May Be Mi Engineers tackling the problem of harnessing the yellow River are not discouraged with the immensity of and, given time, the pros of at least regulating the flow of the river and minimizing the dangers of Mood disasters are by no means unfavourable.
This is. the conclusion of Mr. F.
Bourdrez, hydraulic engineer gent out by the League of Nations Teel nical Commission to China five years luge to advise the Chinese Government on questions of river conservancy. After assignments {0 the study of the Yangtze and Whangpoo River con servancy problems, Mr. Bourdrez ix now "attached to the Hydraulic Engineering Department of the tional Economic Council" as liaison with the various River Conservancy. Commissions of the provinces.
Mr, Bourdres spoke on "'December 30 on "Engineering Work on the Yellow River" at a meeting of Engineering Society of China held under the auspices of the - China branch of the Institution of Mechan-feal Engineers. The meeting was hold at the Lester Technical Institute, with Me. C. D, Pearson presiding.
Iilustrating his lecture with numerous large-scale maps and plans. fof the Yellow River basin, © Mr. Bourdrez dealt with the technical problems confronting the hydraulic engineers "who have tackled the problem in the past and took a hope-{fut view of the future.
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