"In this city, we have been onè mechanical contrivance slaughter over a thousand human beings—this, indirectly, is the responsibility of the engineering profession, and, in no spirit of pacifism, one does.feel that the time has arrived when the engineer should raise his voice in protest- against the misuse of the Knowledge he presents to the world. This may be an "Utopian thought but I cannot imagine any more powerful agency than a combination of the engineers of the world raised ju protest against needless destruction of life and property, the magnitude and the future possibilities of which must be the thought oi- any of us who were here in Shanghai during those never-to-be-forgotten months of last year.
"The following committee was appointed for the session 1938/39:—Chairman, Mr. Eric Davies; Vice-Chairman Mr. G. Pickering; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer Mr. R. M. Currie; Members of the Committee: J, A Bonnyman, F. J. Hookham, Y. C. Lee, H. ©. B. Perry, S. P. Simpson, J. R. b. Barter and C. B. Ogilvie.
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