"'3. That we recognise and make our cordial acknowledgments for the sympathetic manner with which he has approached our country; and
"'4. That we desire emphatically to express our full confidence in Lord Charles Beresford, whose ability, integrity and zeal we are sure peculiarly fit him successfully to carry out the proposals he has made for the furtherance of trade and the preservation of the Chinese Empire.'
"(Signed) Lo CHI TIU, Chairman
H. O. FOOK, Secretary"
The General Foreign Commercial Community of Shanghai, on 8th January, 1899, passed the following resolution:
"That our cordial thanks be tendered to Lord Charles Beresford for the service he has rendered to the foreign communities in China by personal investigation into the conditions of the various interests we represent."
Upon my return, I represented what I believed to be the real posture of affairs in China, when the subject was discussed in the House of Commons. In November, 1899, I read a paper upon "Engineering in China" before the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.