(a) Shanghal:—Repairs of damaged Dulldings are now almost completed but arrivals of certain machinery and accessories which were ordered in place of those damaged are anxiously awaited and they are expected at any view of the fact that your mills fare situated in different quarters in-tead of being concentrated in one feompound we were able to' start Joperations before our other competiors had done so, although on a [somewhat "haphazard scale. "At present all of your mills are running, their plants and the number of work: ers employed. are now well over 5,500 against 8.500 in pre-war times. but they are dally increasing owing fo the rejoining of former employees Th order to raise the eMelency of newly recruited members who at resent predominate in number many expert instructors were engaged from Japan and It is expected that normfaley'of your Shanghai mills will be restored before long.
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