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MAIL NEWS FROM CHINA

Railways, Mining, And Road Building

COAL-MINES DISCOVERED

IN KLANGSI

Hangchow.

Several coal mines are report- ed to have been discovered along the Cheklang Kangsi Railway in the districts of Hengfeng and Shangjao, both in eastern Kiang- si, near the Cheklang border.

The Board of Trustees of the Cheklang-Klangs: Railway has ordered an investigation of the extent of the coal fields. Sam- ples of coal are being analyzed to ascertain their quality Kuo Min.

Nanking.

Products of the Ho Hsing Steel Works in Shanghai will be ex- empted from taxation hereafter for a period of five years, in or- der to encourage the development of native industry. An order to this effect has been issued by the Ministry of Finance to the Cus- toms Administrations,-- Kun Min,

14

Nanking.

Terders for the erection of the projected Central Machine Tool Works in Greater Shanghal were opened at the Ministry of "In- dustry yesterday. The Chung- Sheng contractors. being the lowest bidder, was awarded the contract.-

Kus Min.

PROJECTED WHARF IN

SHANGHAI

Nanking.

Application of the Central Bank of China for expropriation of land adjacent to its projected Jukiang Wharf along the Wangpoo River castern Shanghai, for extension purposes, has been granted by the Ministry of Interior, and a public notice to that effect has been is- sued by the Ministry according to the provisions of the Law govern- Ing Expropriation of Land. The Greater Shanghai Municipal Gov- ernment has been duly notified.

The Central Bank of China, be- sides constructing a wharf at the Ju Klang (River), a tributary of the Whangpoo River, south of Woosung, is planning to buld ex- tensive warehouses,

in

In view of the limited space

avaliable, the Bank recently petl tioned the Ministry of Interior for expropriation of a tract of land adjacent to the wharf. The land question "extends from the wharf site westward to Chunkung Road, southward to Ju Klang and northward to Halachlapang, cover- ing an area of 2,500 mows.— Kuo Min.

CHINESE FACTORIES

INCREASING "

Nanking.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1935.

ENGINEERING AND

Building

SOME DIFFICULTIES IN GETTING ON

IN CHINA

Address By Professor Middleton Smith

The Human Element

(Continued from Yesterday)

scholarship system and to co-

One of the great difficulties be- In the Far East we can be more operate with the University of fore the Chinese graduate is the sure of our steel and cement than Hong Kong, or even to send more family system. The sacred duty of One ex- students abroad, than to meet the helping a relative, even at another of the human element. perience of twenty years ago made great cost of bringing the present person's expense, still survives. And me alert to the danger of the ways training centres up to the neces- this pestilent nepotism burdens in- dustrial undertakings with a pay sary standards. of a Chinese contractor.

While artisans can be easily in roll for those who, to be blunt, are

In the University of Hong Kong

"

SOME BRITISH CONTRACTS

...Messrs. International Combus- tion; Limited, London, W.C.2, have received an order covering the "dust and grit-disposal plant for the extensions to Hams Hall Po- wer Station of the Birmingham Corporation Electricity Depart ment.

Messrs. Dantel Adamson and Company Limited, Engineering works, Dukinfield, have recently. received orders for mixed-pressure turbine-driven turbo-compressor units for the Wheatley Hill Coll- lery of Messrs. Weardale. Steel, Coal and Coke Company, Limited, and for Messrs. Colllers. Green Colliery Company, Limited, War-

Contracts for complete, rington. steam-raising and turbine-driven power plants have also been se- cured from a large aircraft manu we were erecting a new building, structed through interpreters, the parasites on industry, and on Gov facturing company, from Messrs."

John Smith, Limited, Tadcaster We had very little money, and so professional engineer can only ob- ernment.

Another great difficulty that the Brewery, and Messts. The Tadcas the writer offerred to save the tain his instruction through the wages of a Clerk of Works by act-medium of a foreign language, pre- engineer has with the Chinese capi ter Electricity Company, Limited.. ing in that capacity. The door was ferably English, which is that most talist is the lust of the latter for and from Messrs. Samuel Shields, to be reinforced concrete. The universal in the world of engineers, immediate profit. Any properly Limited. Filton Laundry. Bristol. steel bars were placed in position It is noticeable that practically all managed concern must build up a Other orders include a high-pres- and the wet concrete was to be run of the applied science publications fund, out of revenue, for deprecia- sure pass-out type steam turbine for Messrs. Bomfray and Com- in next day under my supervision, which are printed in a foreign tion and replacement of machin- but it was done in my absence. The language in China use the English ery. The general practice in China pany, Limited, Sowerby Bridge," Is to share out each year any and a number of rotary air com- contractor was told to take the script..

In time, of course there will balance between revenue and expressars. floor up. For a week he argued,

a number of pediture and take no heed of the and each hour the concrete hard- STOW up in China ene

¿

disaster."

"

Messrs. John M. Henderson and

received an order for a six-ton

bour. The firm has also at pre- level-luffing crane for Leith Har-

sent in and a number of new-

ashire bollers. type special stokers for Lanc

from the Cape Electric Tramways. for 50 electric' trolley omnibus chassis, fitted with combined re- generative and rheostatic braking. The order marks the first step in the change-over from tramway- cars in Cape Town. Thirty of the chassis will be sultable for double- deck and twenty for single-deck bodies.

Messrs. The Hydraulic Coupling and Engineering Company, Lini!t- ed, Isleworth, Middlesex, have re- ceived repeat orders for variable- speed fuld couplings, of the latest type, from Messrs. The Victoria Falls Power Company, for exten- sions to their Klip power station. South Africa, and for similar plant from the West Midlands Joint Electricity Authority. The City of Birmingham Electricity, Depart- ment has also ordered a new equipment of fuld transmissions In connection with extensions to

Hams Hall power station. Company, Limited, Stafford, have

Messrs. The English Electric

been awarded the contract of the supply, erection, and operation of the Diesel generating plant, which will provide the complete power: requirements for the British Pavi- lion at the International Exhibi- tion, Brussels, 1935. The plant will

cylinder, Diesel engines, each of which will be direct coupled to an English Electric 200-kW alterna- tor, generating power at 400/230

plant will operate in the main volts, three-phase, 50 cycles. The

Exhibition Hall, in full view of the visitors.

...

Messrs. The D.P. Battery Com-

Finally the concrete was. publications and books printed in future needs That system leads to company, Limited Aberdeen, have comprise two of the firm's six- chipped out. Then it was revealed Kwok Yu, the living language of

It is unnecessary to say much that one steel reinforcement rod the people. That time has not yet out of every four had been remov. come and, because of the urgency about the need for developing all ed before the concrete had been of less academic problems, such as forms of transport in China. It the practical "work of power pro- may be as well, however, to urge run in to cover the bars,

And that one experience has duction etc., it is ineficient to at- how essential it is to maintain rail- made me wonder what has hap- tempt the education of professional ways, roads and indeed all en-

Messrs. Marconl's Wireless Tele- pened in other places in China! engineers. in the Chinese language, Eineering work, in proper condition

Ferhaps that is the sort of ex- A gradual growth in words of the It is very true that rapid deprecia- graph Company, Limited, London, Over 500 factories in various perience that engfheers of the Pub language, resulting mainly from tion follows neglect. Many thou have received an order from the parts of the country have regis- llc Works Department in Hong the instruction to artisans, will sands of dollars, and possibly many Egyptian Ministry of Communica- human lives, may be saved by an tions for a Marconi-Adcock wire- tered with the Ministry of Indus- Kong have had, and which makes solve that difficulty.

Mention must be made of the expenditure of a few hundreds of less direction-finding equipment, try up to the end of last year:

them on large margins for safety. The number of factories regis- It is, of course, costly to have to difficulties which result from the dollars when maintenance is need for installation at the Mersa Mat- An important engineering pro- tered is highest in Tinau, provin- use these big margins of safety, great differences in units of weights ed. "A stitch in time saves älne ruh aerodrome, near Alexandria. sulated steel-mast aerials. screen- ject in southern Klangsi-the cial capital of Shantung. Tsing- But where human lives are in dan and measures in various parts of is a proverb even more applicable The contract includes the four in-

China. A uniform system is badly to machinery than to garments. steel bridge across the Chi Kiang tao and Shanghai rank second. ger every precaution

The most important factors in ed feeders, obstruction lights, &c. (River), near the Ta Yu Ling followed by the provinces, of Klang

täken.

Messrs. Ransomes, Sims and (Mountain) along the Klangst- su, Chekiang, Hunan, Hupeh, Ho-

There are, therefore, dificulties All of us have suffered during industry are Brains and Machin- 'Kwangtung border- has been pet and Shansi. Only a few fac-

for the engineer in China that are the last twenty years from the de- ery, Labour and Capital cannot be Jefferies, Limited Orwell Works, completed after one year's work, tortes in

now almost unknown in England. vil's dance in currencies. We have productive unless the first is direct- Ipswich, have received an order Yunnan Kweichow, under the direction of the Pro-Kansu. Kwangtung and Fukien In the latter country he can be had bewildering changes in the ed by brains and the second em- vincial Department of Recon- have registered with the Minis sure of the strength of the mafe value of the dollar, with a peak of bodied in machinery.

CHI KIANG BRIDGE COMPLETED

struction,

Nanchang

The completion of the bridge will not only directly facilitate transportation across the river but also give a great impetus to inter-provincial communications between Klangsi and tung.–

Kuo Him.

Kwang-

SOLDIERS ON HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION

Foochaw. Road-construction by soldier- labour is being pushed in western Fukien. The highway leading from Yungan south-westwards to Liercheng is being built by men

try.-

'Kuo Min.

Nanking.

Public tenders' for the construc-

must be

needed.

It is inevitable that the man who 75 pence, and a fall to less than rials used. He can be reasonably. sure of the integrity and know one seventh of that figure. How Ands money, whether he is the ledge of the workmen, and the can engineers calculate costs with capitalist, the financier, or a mem care of those who supervise. That such bewildering and unexpected her of a Government, will have the

fluctuations?

final word in spending it. That is is not so in China. My own ex-'

fact and affects us in life, Just Money reminds us of "squeeze,”

as much as the law or gravity. Engineers do not quarrel with facts

tion of the branch line of the perience of the well trained Chi- which is here considered as an

Shanghai-Woosung Railway to the Shanghai Civic Centre in Klang- wan, across San Min Road, will be opened on the 19th inst., it is an- nounced by the Nanking-Shang- hat Rallway Administration.- Bun "Min.

Canton. Installation work having been completed, it is announced by the Canton Municipal Bureau of Pub

Ilc Works that the new Meteorolo-

nese professional engineer in that

he can be relied upon to do his economic rather than a moral pro- But they do suggest that if these work thoroughly and conscientions blem, for morals are to some ex-nanciers wish to make proper use-

ly; he realises the danger of care- lessness and "can do." The un-

tent a matter of geography.........

The abolition of "squeeze" is of his mind, they should try to fortunate fact is that there are ciency. The prevailing system is

suggested solely on grounds of em- understand his point of view. comparatively, so few well trained

so uncertain in its results that it and experienced Chinese engineers must stine enterprise and retard

engineering development.

available for the vast amount of work to be done in China. †

A fact which cannot be ignored. is that any large scale engineering. work in China will have to be financed, either by the Govern- ment, or with the consent of the

It is inevitable that rules and re- only people who "squeeze" Indus end it will pay the Chinese people Of course the Chinese are not the Government by forelgriers. In the and limb must be introduced into sound financial backing, but thou- gulations for the protection of life try. Engineers are grateful for to borrow this money, for officials

of the 45th Division.inder Lieut. gical Station here will be officially formed from primitive methods in

General Tal Mia-chuan and of the. 83rd Division under Lieut.-Gene- ral Llu Kan

Soldiers of the 10th Division

Inaugurated on the 15th inst. Kuo Min.

by productive work.

a country when it is being trans- sands of good engineering schemes and the nation will benefit greatly to industrialism. In order that unpunished, financiers. The whole have been wrecked by immoral, ir these regulations may be observed structure of modern industry col-

The Tariff Problem it is essential to have officials un- lapsed in America because of the rent of engineering work in China, Another obstacle to the develop- der Government who have had a fes that lured innocent. investors to-day is the tariff wall which has

under Lieut.-General Li Mo-an Lungyen Highway is being built thorough training in applied scien- into Wall Street. Krueger, Hatty risen so high that it greatly hin- are building the Yungan-Lung-by farm labourers:-

yen Highway; the Yungting- Kuo Min.

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ce and whose integrity is above and men of that type are Enemy Gers the import of the much need- suspicion. And to seize the op- No. 1" of our modern civilisation ed machinery, steel and materials, portunities offerred by the natural is only too true that China, in essentist for our work. resources of a country, to put common with other countries, has power behind the worker, technical suffered from the greedy and un- riot with the prejudices of the po

We must examine this problem, ability is needed. The more that scrupulous company promoter. It litician, not with inefficient ideas the problems of China are studied,, is surprising that the wit of man of "getting our own back" on some the plainer does it become that the

has not devised methods of particular nation that has offended great need of the country is a eliminating these parasites on in- us in the past, but simply from large number of Chinese engineers

et all grades with a thorough technical training and of reliable character...A

dustry.

New Industries In China Outside of the few treaty ports,

the point of view of improving the general condition of the people in China the conquest of poverty."

In this connection, a protest must the initiative of trained engineers, the word "tariff immediately a number of "new industries await Unfortunately all over the world,. be made against the low salaries The mills and mines of China must arouses the cupidity of those who

offerred by Chinese governments and other employers to" qualified

be Chinese or nothing, but for hope to benefit themselves by that engineers. The greatest guarantee

efficient reguits experienced for instrument. Vested taterest realise of integrity is a decent salary and eigners must be employed on that by a tariif they can raise that fact is of fundamental im- beral terms. The cautious capi- prices and make more profits, by portance. It's obvious sequel is talist is frightened by the rapacity reducing competition. Politicians instant dismissal for failure.

of officials unchecked by law court regard it as an easy way of raising

It is,also, essential to have well or popular outcry. In Malaya, and revenue for taxation is thus die trained artisans. Twenty years ago

other parts of Bouth Eastern Asia, sulsed I pointed out the grave defects of Chinese prosper as mine owners, burely the only scientific Justin- skilled labour in China, defects en- they employ Europeans The Chi-

contractors and industrialists and cation for any tariff is to protect, i.in its infancy, an industry that bas tirely due to a lack of any systema nese millionaries In Malaya tell you the probability of finally benefit-

tie fristruction Recently the Hong

Kong Government and the Lester triat prevents them from carrying mately the whole world by enesp

that it is the dread of "squeeze" ting the whole nation and niti-

Institute in Shanghal have made.

-In-Chinu, (SEE ME

we examine the case of tarift

a move to remedy this defect. It out industrial schemes which they ening the production of some par- is a most urgent problem for know would otherwise be profitable ticular article China; and I believe that it would. he far better for the various Chi nese Governments, Anancing, cen- tres or higher education to spend some of the money antech institutions for training rather than on higher But here again, it is have well qualified föret

Of course, Chi number of qua engineers, but

"It would be much

under present cond nčio": Governments

A recent glaring example of the in Ching concerning, for example, ninefficiency of the "squeeze" system motor vehicles, we see how logicat

was brought to my not

the high tax on motor-vehicles nent of a provin

With more vehicles, more revenus sesa many" motor vel

be raised by a reasonable; at-

contra

"the car and a tax

sperity

of good quality the

ourse

tax

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