CO129-440 - Others & Individuals - 1916 — Page 80

British Trade with China,

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N address on the above subject was delivered before the members of the Far Eastern Section of the Chamber and of the China Association by Mr. THOMAS M. AINSCOUGH, M. Com., F.R.G.S. (Special Commissioner of the Board of Trade in China), on Wednesday, November 24, 1915, at 3 p.m.

Mr. FREDERICK ANDERSON (Chairman of the Far Eastern Section and of the China Association) presided, and among those present were:-

Mr. Gershom Stewart, M.P., Mr. Byron Brenan, C.M.G., Mr. A. P Simpson, Mr. H. S. Hancock, Mr. R. H. Hill, Mr. F. M. Shaw, Mr. R. P. Dipple, Mr. H. J. Algar, Mr. E. A. Stanton, Mr. H. S. Aspinall, Mr. F. T. Bone, Mr. J. R. Michael, Mr. E. E. Hills, Mr. W. Carter, Mr. C. Watney, M1.

Kerr, Mr. Herbert Hutchinson, Mr. G. A. Richardson, Mr. F. H. Jefferd, Mr. H. C. Wilcox, Mr. R. C. Wilcox, Mr. G. H. Medhurst, Mr. D. T. Keymer, Mr. E. J. Carroll, Mr. H. D. C. Jones, Mr. A. Heckling, Mr. A. Campbell, Mr. F. O. P. Bland, Mr. C. S, Moore, Mr. H. Hickling, Mr M. S. Salinger, Mr. C. W. Salisbury, Mr. J. Penzer, Mr. Ñ. Hayakaya, Mr. F. Lange, Mr. C. H. Bates, Mr. D. C. Rutherford, Mr. L. Chotzen, Mr. J. W. Jamieson, C. M. G., Mr. C. J. Longcroft, Mr. C. F. Angus, and Mr. C. E. Musgrave (Secretary),

THE CHAIRMAN said he had much pleasure in intro- ducing Mr. Ainscough, of the Board of Trade, who had promised to deliver an address on "British Trade in China." Very nearly up to the close of last century the attitude of both the Chinese Government and the Chinese people towards foreigners who desired to bring about closer relations with the country was one mainly of passive resistance. They looked upon any attempt on the part of foreigners to draw closer relations with their country, and the development of the resources of China, as foreign encroachment, so that practical business men came to the conclusion that it was a waste of time and energy to spend very much of either in endeavouring to

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