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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

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