Two Girls in Group Which Will Teach Chinese The accumulated experience the demonstra-loras of Lancashire cotton production In|is to be made available to Chinese ddition to Shanghai itis proposed workers in Shanghai through the Jirect guidance of twelve Lancashire loperatives—including three women—who arrived here on Sunday in the s. Carthage from London The latest processes and the best old-established practices of their profession alike will be taught [Chinese by the group, whose memers have agreed to stay in China for periods of from eighteen months to ive years under the auspices of the Calico Printers' Association, All will be engaged in a local mill con trolled by the Association.
Fresh from Bolton, Lancashire, the twelve operatives presented an inter= esting picture as they stepped. to [Shanghai soit yesterday. There were the two girls, Miss Norah Unsworth Jand Miss' Carrie Perkins wide-eyed at their first sight of China. Mis Unsworth, who is 18 years of age, Jand is expert in the processes of fearing, comes from a family mill workers. Miss Perkin is a ring [spinner and was a neighbour of Miss [Unsworth's in Bolton.
The third woman member of the party is travelling with her husband, who is also a mill worker. She weaver and, will act as an instructress in her particular line and have supervision with the two girls The party left London on June 8 and experienced strong. monsoon inthe Indian Ocean, but. otherwise had a pleasant trip. All of its members spent part of their first day in sightseeing about Shanghai and did not seem to mind the heat greatly. the girls particularly were impressed the cosmopolitanism of Shanghai ircet life and by the quaintness of Chinese shops. They agreed that Bolton, though not a small town, was very different in atmosphere. True to Lancashire traditions, they plan return 10 home soil" when their being a [eighteen months are up. Only the men are to stay for five yea
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