IHE demand in China for mac! hinery and equipment for industrial undertakings must inevitably continue, and it seemed inconceivable that British engineers were going to sit back and allow their share in that trade to go.
This point was emphasized by Mr. C. D. Pearson, chairman of the I stitution of Civil Engineers, Shanghai Association, at the joint dinner of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, China Branch, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers, China Centre, held last evening at the Shanghai Club.
Sir Anchibald Clark Kerr, H. M.
Ambassador to China, headed the official guests, who also included Major-General AP.D. Telfer-Smollett, Sir Allan Mossop, Mr. Herbert Phillips, Captain J, Dundas, Mr. A. H. George, Captain C. E. Howard-Vyse, Mr. R. Lock, Mr. H. G..W. Woodhead, Mr. A. Morley and Mr. D. R. Glass, Mr. Pearson sajd that it seemed to him to be inconceivable that they were going to sit back and allow heir share in the trade to go. There must inevitably be a demand not only for goods which China could not, or at present could not, produce for herself, but also for the machinery and equipment of industrial undertakings in which they had seen so rapid a growth during recent years, and which had transformed Shanghai into a manufacturing centre as well as a port.
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