New Cruiser for China: Japanese Engineers to Help Construction departure in the history of ship building in China will be marked at the beginning of September, when group of about fifty Japanese en~ Rineers and experts will arrive at the Naval Ministry's Kiangnan Dock to help to complete China's newest cruiser' under construction, Ping Hai Sa task which sill, Inyglves_ more than two years' work. She is esti+ mated to cost approximately $8,000, 'A sister ship of the Ning Hai, which was constructed in Japan, the Ping Hal will thus be the first Chinese cruiser built here with the Japanese assistance. Incidentally, She will be the biggest warship ever; constructed by the Dock. that a group of Japanese are being sent to China explains the origin of the report.
As the contract with the Japanese engineers starts in September, the group is expected to arrive in Shang.
in a week's time. It is under slood that the contract will be in fore until the completion of ne The construction of the new cruiser began more than two years ago, with steel plates and certain paris of machinery imported from England. Lieut. Wang and several officers who had participated in thei" supervision of the construction of! the Ning Hai in Japan have been attending to the building work.
'A message from Japan reported! that order had been placed with Japanese dock for the construction 1 a Chinese cruiser. Inquiries made Toeally revealed that no such order had been put in Japan. The fact
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