Visiting Business Experts in Shanghai Representing all branches of modern commerce, the American Eeonomie Mission to China, arrived on Gfonday "morning, is composed of galaxy of business men and ex-penis, whose records make them one of the most interesting committees fever to visit this country. The mission is headed by Mr. W. Cameron Forbes, whose biography is a record of "accomplishments. Graduating from Harvard University with an usp in 1892, he began his business career as a clerk in the banking and brokerage firm of Jackson & Curtis and was with them from 1894 until 1895, becoming head of the financial department of this concern, In 1897 he joined the electrical engineering firm of Stone & Webster, and since 1899 has been a partner in J.M. Forbes Ca, merchants of Boston, "His offi lal career began with his appoint. ment to the Philippines Commission in 1904, and between that date and 1908 he was Secretary of Commerce and Police in the government of the islands. He was Vice-Governor the Philippines from July, 1908, to November, 1909, and in' the same year became Governor-General, re-Signing this post at the beginning of September 1018.
He was appointed receiver of the Brazil Railway Company in 1914 and in 1927 was a member of the Wood-Forbes Mission sent by President Harding to investigate conditions in the Philippines. He was also Chals-man of the Commission to Haiti in 1931. From June, 1931, to March, 1932, Mr. Forbes' held the post of Ambassador to Japan, Besides these various appointments he has been Overseer at Harvard University, Trustee of the Carnegie Institute, the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Honorary President of the China Society of America, member of the Massachusetts" Historical Society, and a Fellow of the Amer iean Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mir. James A. Thomas, Honorary Vice-Chairman of the Mission, formerly was a director of the British-American Tobacco Ca, Chairman of the British Cigarette Ca. and. Mustard & Ca. He retired in 1022, He 4s noted for having introduced Wes fern ways into many countries in the Orient, and he organized the Chinese. American Bank of Commerce, He feasurer of the China Famine and Flood Relief Organisation in America, as well as the China Child Welfare Association, and_a trustee of the Shanghai American School.
Mr. Charles J. Caroli, Vice-Chairman of the (Mission, was in the Chit nese Government service for twelve years. He is an expert on transport {ation and a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Mr, Julian Street, jun, Secretary of the' Mission, is connniected with the National Broadcasting Company New York, and has been on the staff of the New York "Herald-Tri-
The mission has as its treasurer Mr. John-B, Chevalier, a well-known American banker and director of the National Council of American Importers and Traders, New York. He was Ju business in Shanghai from 1012 to 1017.
Other members of the mission in clude:—Mesers, J. Harold Dollar, of the Dollar Steamship Lines; Walter Dillingham, president of a number of Hawaiian industrial and pub-utilities companies; Philip K. Con-ict, of the International Telephone Telegraph Corporation; Leighton W. Rogers, vice-president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, Washington; Prof. C.F. Romer, of the University of Michigan; C. Ellsworth Huggins, a New York cotton manufacturer; John 8. Campbell, of the Wilcox-Hayes Corporation, Portland Ore; Col. Sidney W. Minor, of Dibreli Bros,, Danville, Vox; Dr. Louis Jones, of the American Cyanide Ca, New York, and the Chemical Cor struction Corporation of "Yokohama: Harold M. Bixby, vice-president, of the Pan-American "Airways System; and Thomas Y. Wickham, vice-president of the Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Guy Haman, vice-president of the National City Bank of New York, and Mr, H. B. Phillips, vice-president of General Motors Export Ca, New York, are assisting the Mission.
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