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ENGINEERING AND BUILDING

CHINA'S CONSTRUCTIVE

ACHIEVEMENTS

DR. C. T. WANG'S REPLY TO CRITICS

Up to about ten years ago there was very little in Chian of what is known as publio- spirit among the people. Such things as projects for material developments for the boug fit of all the poople instead of only for the advantage of a family or villago was practically unknown. Such enterprises is were under- taken in, the nature of public ser- vica were extremely rare, Thinga were done then as they were done

fifty or a hundred or a thousand years ago. The spirit of modern progrose based on a clear concep tion of public welfare was hardly known to the masses.

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A pleasing ceremony, due to the initiative of Mr. Richard Allen, C.B.E, took place at the Hotel Victoria, Northumberland-avenue, W.0.8, on the 18th inst, when Engineer-Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Skelton was entertained at an in-

formal. lunch.

There are now 13,000,000 unem. ployed workers in the United Statce, and 30,000,000 persone in all will have to be provided for this winter," said Mr. Charles Dukes, district secretary of the Municipal RECORD YEAR IN 1932

and General Workers' Union, an gathering of friends and colleagues, Rangoon has long been, an im-held to welcome him on his return

The function was inspired by the portant city and port, nininly owing to Manchester, after attending the to the fact that it stands at the annual conference of the American retirement (at the end of Novem- mouth of the great Irrawaddy River, Federation of Labour as a delegate ber) of Vice-Admiral Skelton from which is navigable up to Bhamo, on from the British Trade Unions Con- the post of Engineer-in-Chief of the the Chinese Frontier, 000 miles from gress.

Fleet. The company present, con-" the se. Moreover, the main tri Giving instances of technical ad.sisted in the main of leading ropre abutary of the Irrawaddy, the Chind vaaces which had displaced labour, sentatives of engineering firms whe had been brought into touch with win, le navigablo for a distance of Mr. Dukes mentioned a foundry so 300 miles. For years past Rangon equipped that one man could pro- Admiral Skelton during his term of has been a great rice port and, a duce 4,000 tons of pig iron a year. office, and the support given to the the present time, taking exports on

cigarette machine could function was vory clear evidence of a tonnage basis, it will be found produce 2,500 cigarettes & minute. the cordiality of the relations which Speaking at the that, two-thirds of them consist of In 1919 one mão could make 75 have existed. this cereal, Large quantities of electric bulbs in a day. In 1920 a lunch, Mr. Allen said that it had mineral oils, timber, and foodstuffs, machine was brought out which en only boen necessary to send out a other than rice, are, however, also abled him to make 73,000 slay: notification in reference to exported. Imports comprise main and the rate of production had been meeting when intimations of at-

The New York tendance were received at once. ly manufactured goods of all de doubled since.

Edison Company had a distributing station which supplied electria light to 300,000 families without a single attendant. There was in New Jer sey artificial silk factory in which production could be carried on without one man on the plant; and a man sitting in a New York office could change the dyes in use at the factory by the action of photostatic cells.

contre of South China beaides other developments in public t ties, is now connected with all oitics in Kwangtung Province, through network of highways Roads in territory on the opposite shore of the Pearl River are joined to the metropolis by two modern bridges. Amar is another example. Only a decade ago this city had the very unsavoury reputation of being one of the filthiest and most malodorous spots in the whole country. What do we see there, to-day? Over forty milos of clean modern paved streets, the finest public park in all Southscriptions. China, and one of the very best built and equipped universities are among the accomplishments of this city within a decade.

Then a sort of mental revolution seemed miraculously to have taken pinco overnight. A now spirit was born-the spirit of progress, of duty Similar progress has been made to the nation, of public service and in all parts of the country, in Hang- national unity. In the space of ten chow, Hankow, Tsingtao, Weihai years, during which the political wei, Nanking, Peiping, Shanghai, I remember with what world of China was continually etc., etc. wracked by strito and internecine skepticism many people contemplat- warfare, by flood and famine, byed the re-establishment of Chinese the thousand and one disruptive administration in Tsingtao," It forces which impeded progress will go to the doge after the within the brief eran of a decade Chinese take it back, they con- China has made such substantial fidently predicted. Go to Tsingtao and encouraging progress toward to-day and look at it. Quite well known to many people, especially those who expected and perdicted the worst, Tsingtao to-day in all more developed and respects is pleasanter place than it was before Chinese control there was re- established.

modernization that I think, an enumeration of

accomplishments will surprise every those who have an idea that they are familiar with conditions in this country. We are all too familiar with the floods and famines, the communist uprisings and bandit depredations, the civil

The construction of highways in Ching during the past 10 years in a matter that shuold convince every

A fair idea of the traffic of the Port may be obtained from a peru- sal of the annual reports of the Commissioners for the Port of Rangoon.

A Record,

The latest one published shows that 1,620 steamers, having a total gross tonnage of 7,014,399, entered the Port during the year ending March 31, 1932.

A new

Mr. Dukes found the American This figure, it is stated, con rural landscape most depressing

fat country, hedgrless, and poorly stitutes a record. During the same twelve months, steamers to the farmed. Only in Canada, between (number of 1,618, making together Toronto and Niagara Falls, did ho 7,806,860 gross tons, left the Portage any cultivation comparable with Elsewhere, In addition, some 200 sailing vessels that of this country. of small size utilised the port facili- the farms seemed to be five to ten ties. In spite of this activity, the acre lote with wooden shacks, he total sea-borne trade of Rangoon never saw a good horse. Farm declined appreciably from the pre- mortgages had risen to 30 per cent. vious year's total, and the figure of the total value of farm holdings, for the twelve months ending March and some 3,000,000 people had given 31, 1932, namely 5,162,371 tous, was up and drifted off the land into the the lowest recorded since the year towns

It should be added that! ——

1925-20.

Sir Reginald's Reply..

the

Sir Reginald Skelton,, in replying to the toast of his health, said that even in these days of reduction and small navies, the Engineer-in-Chief of the Fleet was responsible for the upkeep and running of 7,000,000 h.p. of machinery, which any superin tendent engineer would consider. quite a respectable total. The per sonnel coming under bis department. was 25 per cent of the total person- net of the Navy.

A large part of Sir Reginald's distinguished careen, has been spent at sen, and he related.

be appointed Engineer-in-Chief, he for him to tell him that he was to felt compelled to remind the First Lord of this, and to say that he knew little of the drawing office or designs department. Lord replied that they would take We need not here say that he was

that when the First Lord sent

the risk.

The Firit

wars, and political intrigues, I am going to tell you something about those things, that count more in the skeptic of the new spirit which per maintained at between 3,500,000 was well iri hand at the end of the sea-going engineer has been brought upbuilding of this country.

meates the people. I neither claim that what we now have are enough, Great Improvement at Amoy.

or that more roads could not have been built. I present the achieve To start with let us consider civisments in this direction of a country improvements and the progress that in which there has beba so much has been made in the moderniza- of everything to discourge progress tion of our cities. Canton is an that chroniclers of recent Chinese example. Ten years ago Canton history have succeeded in making was a city of narrow winding alleys the world think that in China only, that passed for streets. To-day destructive forces are at work. there are sixty miles of the mos up-to-date paved thoroughfares in that city, some of which are over a hundred feet wide. This principal

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Dredging, Etc.) From the engineering point of view the report before us contains little that is worthy of comment, sa most of the works carried out were more or less of a routine nature. The dredging of the approach chan- Ten years ago the whole of China nels, and of the. berths at the could boast of not more than 700 hurves and jetties, was actively miles of highways. Up to the end continued and 1,021,288 tons of sand of June of last year there were and silt were removed. A new more than 39,000 miles in eleven reinforced-concrete cargo-boat jetty, provinces with 36,000 miles moro 84 It. in length, has been built at projected, of which I am sure a con Phongyi-street. to replace an exist siderable portion has since beening timber structure which was completed. There are Inter-provin, beyond economical repair. Three other cargo-boht, jetties, attacked by marine borers, have also been repaired with reinforced concrete. Sidings on the new Strand Market Wharf, which was completed and upened to traffic on February 19, 1931, were reconditioned and rea ligned and the roads asphalted. Two new timber pontoons were con-

cial roads,

China has been described as a land in process of disintegration, Within the space of ten short years this country has constructed over a thousand miles of railways. There is a short line of 150 miles in Che klang Province which was built and financed by the people of districts hrough which the line runs. Ching is a poor country, but her people possess wealth to an extent that is hot generally appreciated.-* Ex- tracts from a speech delivered by Dr. C. T. Wang, former Minister of. Foreign Affairs, at the annual din. ner of the American University Club, Shanghai, on Friday, July 8,

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R. K. Engineers,' policy of retrenchment and economy decided upon in January, 1932, He spoke also of the necessity of reduction in the staff of the Engi- drawing the best type of personnel noering Department has been to the engineering side of the Navy. brought about. The positions of This is a matter on which we have Chief Engineer, Deputy Chief Engi written much in the past. The con meer, one appointment of executive ditions are better now than they engineer, and a number of other were at one time and it is, satisfac- appointments have been abolished, tory to know that the relations and a new appointment of Port between the engineering branch of Engineer created, to take effect the Navy and mechanical engineer- from April, 1, 1032, Mr. W. Ding generally as represented by its Beatty, excentive engineer (pro premier official body the Institu jects) took over charge of the tion of Mechanical Engineers, are Engineering Department as Port now so close. In view of the fact. Engineer on April 1, 1932. The last that there are no less than four pre- to hold the appointment of Chief sont and past Engineers-in-Chief of Engineer was Mr. E. 0. Niven, the Fleet on the Council of the In- C.IE., who was granted leave prestitution, it was particularly appro- paratory to retirement on April 1, uriate that a Past President of the 1032. It will be recalled that Mr. Institution. Mr. R. W. Allen, should Niven died in London on August have acted as convenor of, and

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