of New System Ready by End of This Year On Mar, 19 at the Metropole Hotel, Mx. W. J. Richards, the representative in' China of Messrs, Marconi's Wireless 'Telegraph Ca., Ltd, gave lunch in honour of tive four Chinese engineers "students who proceeded to England the following day by the Conte Verdi, to undergo 'a six months" course of training at Chelmsford, the headquarters' of Mareoni's Engineering Works, In the course of his speech, Mx. Richards expressed his satisfaction that before long China and Great Britain would be linked up by the most up-to-date high speed system of wireless telegraph. 'The plant twas being erected at Chenju' and Liuho.. The steel mast is expected arrive next month and by the end of the year the plant should be Yeady for opening. Mr. Richards explained that the idea of sending the four engineers home is to enable them to obtain the requisite techni-
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