for Peiping Line London, Sept. 10, The Chinese Government Purchasing Commission emphatically deny reports that British steel manufacturers have temporarily ceased work on Chinese orders as a precautionary measure.
From the beginning of the year, contracts to a total value of about £800,000 have been placed in Great Britain, chiefly for rails, bridges and structural steel for the Peiping-Hankow Railway.
About half of these orders, it is stated, has been fulfilled up to the beginning of hostilities in Shanghai, and the execution of the remainder continues regularly, although shipment obviously presents temporary difficulties—Reuter.
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