LEAGUE AND CHINA.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18440, 22 September 1931, Page 10

LEAGUE AND CHINA.

CO-OPERATIVE WORK. WESTERNISING THE REPUBLIC. APPOINTMENT OF ADVISERS. (From a Correspondent.) GENEVA, August ii. The Chinese Government and the League of Nations are pressing on with the plan of co-operation In Chinese reconstruction which was requested by the Chinese Government and approved by the League Council in May. A group of four educational experts has been selected and is proceeding to China at the end of August in order to undertake a preliminary survey of Chinese educational problems and suggest ways in which the League might be utilised by the Chinese Government in its work of reform in this field. The experts are Dr. C. H. Becker, formerly Pruslsan Minister of Education and responsible for tho reform of the Pruslsan system of education after the war and the German revolution; Professor It. 11. Tawney, of the London School of Economics, who has recently spent eight months in China; Professor Langevln, of the College do Franco, one of the most eminent European physicists; and Dr. Fatski, Professor at Warsaw University, who took a prominent part in tho successful campaign against illiteracy in Poland after the war. The group will be accompanied by a senior official of the Secretariat, Mr Walters, the Secretary-General’s personal assistant, to advise on the relation of its work to the general organisation and methods of the League. The group will remain in China until the end of the year. Reconstruction Plans. The League is also selecting three foreign professors—one on geology, one on economics and one on English literature —for the University of Nanking, at the request of Its rector, Dr. Chu Chia-hua. The plan of co-operation provides for the League technical organisations being continuously available as adviser to the Chinese National Economic Council In framing and carrying out reconstruction plans, and for this purpose requests the presence at Nanking of a League agent competent to advise on the working of the technical organisations and the ways in which they may bo utilised for reconstruction by the National Economic Council. The League Council, at its May meeting, decided that the directors of the technical sections wore the most suitable League agents for tills purpose, and Dr. Rajchman, the Director of the Health Organisation, is accordingly proceeding to China in the middle of August. This will be Dr. Rajchman’s fourth visit to China in the last flvo years.

Teohnlcal Subjects. The Transit Committee heard the report of the director of the transit section, M. Haas, on the results of hts visit to China and of tho Chinese Government’s conversations with 'the three technical directors (Health, Transit and Communications, Economic and Financial) on tho ways in which the League might be utilised by the Chinese Government for the purpose of national reconstruction. As regards the Transit Organisation, the Chinese Government desired the co-operation of League experts in establishing a final plan for flood control on the River Ihvai and the river system of Northern China, as well as for tho development of the port of Greater Shanghai, and in the organisation and development of a technical study centre for the training of civil engineers. The Transit Commllteo appointed two delegations of its members respectively to follow the development of the plan for co-operation and to select tlio necessary experts for Its share in the work.

Tho Economic Committee similarly considered a report of the Director of Hie Economic ami Financial Section (Sir Arthur Salter) in his discussions with the Chlneso Government, and entrusted its bureau (president, vicepresidents and secretary) to nominate experts as and when this became necessary to carry out its share in the plan of collaboration.