Referring to technical assistance, Mr. Chien stated that in 1936 the National Resources Commission arranged for German experts to aid in the construction of a ferry-tungsten factory, a coal liquefaction plant, and also a nitrogen factory; German and British experts for steel works; American and Swiss experts for machine works and German, British and American experts for a factory to manufacture electrical appliances.
Over 20 Chinese technicians were sent on investigation tours to foreign countries or various parts of China.
To train more technical personnel, the Commission employed 90 college graduates to work at industrial plants, and also subsidized 12 Chinese institutes of technology in the purchase of equipment end increase of teaching staffs.
The Japanese invasion started just when the programme was entering the second year.
Mining establishments near the war zones had either to remove or suspend work. A ferry-tungsten plant had to be dismantled and shipped elsewhere, while work on the steel works at Hsiangfan, planned by German experts, had to be discontinued.
Expensive installations in machine works and an electrical appliances factory had to be carried hundreds of miles inland, The coal mines at Kowkong, and Tienho had to be abandoned.
Projects for developing the copper mines at Yanghsin and Tayeh, and lead and zine ores in Suikowshan were also abandoned.
With the outbreak of hostilities, the Commission was called upon to undertake control of fuel, purchase of raw materials needed for the war, and the giving of help to private industrial establishments in their removal from the war zones to the hinterland.
Numerous power plants formerly belonging to the Reconstruction Commission were turned over in the spring of 1938 to the National Resources Commission.—Reuter. of the British people"; "Annihilate the running dogs of the British people"; "Do not forget the Shanghai Incident of May 30th"; "Down with Great Britain, the common enemy of the Yellow Race"; "Oppose the British loan to Chiang Kai-shek"; "Do not ce-operate with the British people", _The posters are 18 by 8 inches in size and have been seen on public and private buildings throughout the Japanese occupied areas, particularly in Pootung. Usually the complete set is exhibited together with large reproduction of photographs of anti-British demonstrations in other parts of China. In particular, four photographs of the procession which took place at Kaifeng recently and at which reportedly 5,000 persons took part, are prominently displayed although beyond the banners carried by the throng, nothing outstanding appears in either of them. Two pictures showing Chinese women and children being given extra rations of rice by the Japanese on the occasion of the Japanese Emperor's birthday on May 18 are also displayed as a counterpart to the alleged British cruelties perpetrated in China, The characters on the posters indicate that those responsible for their writing, have a poor knowledge of the Chinese language, Shanghai dialect and Mandarin' characters being freely intermingled.
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