"Mr. Hoover had come to China originally as an engineer for the Chinese Government. Following the flight of the Chinese Government to Sianfu during the Boxer rebellion in 1900, Mr. Hoover was offered, and he accepted, the post of consulting engineer' with the Chinese Engineering & Mining Ca, The shareholders comprised four different groups, which did not always work harmoniously, having diverse interests. One combined Chinese and German interests, there were two separate British groups and Belgian group. The property since its organization in 3882 up to this ime had not been financially suecessful, but its potential value was recognized. With the arrival of foreign troops to suppress the Boxer Rebellion, possession of the property' became a bone of international contention. Properties of the company wore practically seized and occupied by the troops of four foreign governments, B Japan, Germany and Great Britain, although the company was Chinese, "It was Mr. Hoover's prompt action which saved the company for: the Chinese and other shareholders Londor sd the com.
that critical time. He went to
ing the reorganization, the Chinese ins represented on Mir, Chang Yen-mao should continue Tu this seclusion, Mr, Tong keeps away from polities and turmoil. His dea is that the rejuvenation of China munt start in the villages and that the big men of China should work for the modernization of their own villages, so that the land may productive and the peasants ha and that peace may be preserved, was into this atmosphere that Mr. B. W. Fleisher, publisher of the] "Japan Advertiser," went to ask Mr. Tong about his rotations with Mr. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com: merce of the United States and now the leading candidate for the publican nomination for the Pres ideney, Mr. Tong and Mr. Hoover were intimate friends in the Boxer concerned approved of this and it was so agreed in the form of a memorandum signed in February, 1901. Mr, Hoover was the one man in whom all the different math terested reposed confidence, he was made the general manager. Me was not in charge of the finances, each group having its own separate financial representative.
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