GERMANS IN CHINA.
LARGE CONTRACTS OBTAINED, ALLIES' PRICES UNDERCUT. Shanghai, Oct. 15 The North China Daily News stains that a German engineer named Kocher, who was recently nominated as director-General throughout China for the German electrical firm of Siemens, has contracted for the supply of machinery necessary for the exploitation of a colliery near Hangchow, despite the fact that Germany maintains her inability to manufacture such machinery for the restoration of the French coalfields.
'Moreover, Kocher has ordered frjm Germany a quantity of electrical tramway and factory equipment, severely undercutting the prices of the British, French, and American products. Kocher was one of the most aetiva German propagandists • during the war, but, thanks to Chinese influence, was not repatriated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 October 1920, Page 7
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