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those individuals who did very arduous public service
27 transport workers, members of the Rheeseen Defence
Corps and so forth. Espécial mention is due to two
members of the community, Mr. Kearney, a Canadian,
agent for Mesars, Andersen, Meyer & Co., and Mr. Sentshmer, an American, agent of the Taxes vil Company.
There undertook the hardest and at the nome time the
most important job on the island, the working of the
Tump for the water supply. when the employees left
hameen, the pump was discovered to have been neglected
for a long time part and to be in very bad working or-
der; there was moreover only about 5 hours' supply in
the tank. It was, I understand, chiefly in connection
with the water supply that the Chinese had calculated
on breaking down our resistance; and Mr. Kearney and
Mr. Scotøhmer deserve the thanks of the community for
for the manner in which they tackled their task, en-
gaging in stresuous manual labour, occasimally for an
much as fourteen hours a day, and thereby saving the
situation.
Many of the residents in Shameen were however not
fit for such heavy work, busides which the number of
those available was limited, It would therefore have
been found very difficult to cope with the situation
had it not been for the assistance rendered by the Navy,
the French Concession being of course looked after by
the French Navy. As regards the British Concession, the
Commodore in Hongkong gave the Benior Naval officer in
Canton, Goormander kaxwell-Scott, a free hand to take