14 SEPTEMBER 1920 CHINA FIELD FOR BRITISH TRADE Presiding at a meeting of the Pekin Syndicate Ltd., yesterday, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. T.A. Barson, expressed the conviction that China would shortly settle down to peaceful industrial developments which might astonish the world. Dealing with commercial aviation in China, Mr. Barson said that in his opinion there was a big field there for British manufacturers but emphasised that British manufacturers were cramped by the British authorities on the ground that the machines wanted by the Chinese Government were for military use while other nations rightly took a less strict view. Dealing with the general trade position, the Chairman, referring to industrial difficulties at home, declared that “unless Great Britain got a move on”, foreign manufacturers, by co-operating with the Chinese or giving serious consideration to the Chinese markets, would so firmly establish themselves in China as to make business for the British more difficult than ever. The Chinese were well-disposed towards the British and would prefer to deal with them on anything like equal terms, but British prices were so much higher and deliveries so much slower that they made business almost impossible. (Reuter) 21 SEPTEMBER 1920 COMMERCIALAIR SERVICE FOR CHINA European observers have been struck with the facility with which young Chinese army subalterns have taken up the study and achievement of aviation under instructors. These instructors are French, American and British. The Chinese are very thorough and have plenty of nerve. A timid Chinese is almost unknown. Efforts are being made for developing China by means of flying routes. It is foreseen that aviation will bring about a greater change in a shorter time in China than has ever occurred in any country because the contrast between the speed of the airplane and that of the present modes of travel is so much greater than in any other country where transportation by airplane has been introduced. The bullock cart and the courier on foot have been almost the only means of transporting mail or messages of any kind over roads in the interior of China. One of the largest shipments of airplanes ever sent out of the United States was recently made to China. Its American value was more than half a million dollars. This shipment included five Curtiss H-16 flying boats, two Curtiss H-2 flying boats with wireless equipment, three aeromarine 39-B pontoon airplanes and one Boeing seaplane – eleven in all. One machine purchased by the Chinese
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