'The arrival of the party of Japanese engineers to complete the Chinese cruiser the Ping Hai, which has been under construction at Kiangnan Dock for two years or more, is an interest ing development' in local shipbuilding. This is not the frst ime that foreign engineers have worked the Dock. The development of is very efficient Government dockyard has been largely due to the efforts over decades of the British technical staff. Both the American and the British Governments have, on occasions, sent naval constructors land overseers to supervise the contruction or assembly of their own Jgunboats at the yard, but this is the first occasion when engineers from abroad have been specially delegated to build a Chinese warship at the yard. Practical considerations are be perceived in this procedure, [China is in a position to build her Jown war craft and if any order is Placed abroad there is no reason why 8 portion of the work, such as the Jconstruction of the hull, should not carried out in Shanghai and the more intricate equipment built abroad and shipped here, but the broader implications of this mew deirture are worthy of examination [suggested that this marks the begin: ning of the extension to China Japan of technical assistance in naval construction and cognate matters, and the logical development of such a step would be the -appointment of instructors to train the Chinese navy. In any case, other chapter in Sino-Japane!
Tations it is a subject of interest to contrast with the repeated asseveratons that Japan is being held of arms
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