It is not surprising that the British Engineers who belong to the foremost professional institution of their calling should hold that the time has come to establish a local association of the Institution of Civil Engineers in China. 'The meeting' which launched that project on Friday evening in Shanghai was sense informal. Yet the principles which Colonel M. Logan and other speakers laid down have an importance for the public as well as for the profes. sion. The Report of the British Economic Mission was unreserv.
istic about, the future Chi ited that the ish industry in
pivot of rehabilitation of China's industrial and social fabric in the development of commu cations. This necessarily demands expansion of road-building, railway construction and, therefore, of engineering activities. "British engineers have deen in China, as in many other parts of the World, the pioneers in railway work. At the dinner on Friday there were at least. two engineers who actually were engaged in the very earliest of the railroad building projects in this country. Shanghai itself, as Colonel Logan pointed out, bears richly the marks of the skill of British engineers. When
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