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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1926.

OBITUARY.

BOULDER SMASH...

A WELL KNOWN'SHANGHAI WAS REPORT MADE 2 YEARS

CHINESE.

MR. CHU PAQ-SAN.

AGO?

UNIVERSITY COMPLAINT?

To the Editor of the "China Mall."

It is with very deep regret that P.W:D. witnesses were ques- Sir. The efforts of the we have to record the death of Mr. tioned at the adjourned inquiry Chinese YMCA, in attempting to Chu Pro-san, which occurred at his yesterday into the Pokfulam to Incalante into the Chinese popu-residence in Shanghai at the ripe pumping house disaster as lace an elementary grounding in age of 79 years,

whether their attention had been hygiene is indeed praiseworthy | He is rightly called the veteran drawn so the danger from in- and if there were similar organ-morehint of Shanghai, having been secure boulders at that spot two isations capable of carrying on"nin business in Shanghat for more years ago.

None of the witnesses in quey- campaign throughout the country than 6 years. Born in 1847 in the

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a great reduction in the mortality city of Tinghal Choklang. Mr. tion had any recollection of any " figures, could be effected, as a Cha ladeed had a most varied and such report, they stated if such large percentage of the deaths in interesting commercial life, serving had been made it would have been China are avoidable.

as the head of many industrial en-referred to the PW.D. in the first In China, unhappily, effective turprises.

instance and then probably direct As chairman of the Chinese to the Building Authority. The sanitation is conspicuous by its absence and the conservation of Shangha! he enjoyed the confidence would ultimately have been de- General Chamber of Commerce, overseer in charge of the district Infant life is something which has of all Chinese and foreigners in the tailed off. not yet been fully grasped by the community on account of his spirit Chinese. The result is that the of public service and keen sense of Prate of infant mortality in this]

justice. country is aboigtly high and.

He also served as the Vice-chair- with the pale of an ordinary con- nach Botential nai-power is thus man of the National Association of

lost to the nation. troversialist. These phrases may

Chambers of Commerce. In Bank A case in point has been fur-ing, he prometed the Commercial seem courteous and dignified tonished in Shanghai where thou- Bank of China, the Ningpo Comprobably would and in any case he sands have been attacked by the mercial Bank. L. the Chokians would have been informed, if it a lady of cholera and a fhdustrial Bagk, bi, and the Chan had not come to him for action large percentage have succumbed 1 wa Commercial and Savings Bank, he would have handled it for fill- to the disense.

In insurance..he was organisering purposes and either be or the The number of foreign cases of the Wah An Fire and Marine In-1

overseer would have been deputed cholera, even in periods of the surance Co., Li, the Wah Sing to the scene. He had no know- worst epidemic, as the "China Bianco Co. Ltd. and the Chinh Press points out, is negligible. United Assurance Suristy bad. ledge of any such report.

Mr. Eugene Chea, but to nobody else. They deserve to be treated

with that. silent contempt which they so richly deserve. In the language of the ring he has "hit below the belt" and accordingly must be ruled out by the impartial umpire. He has lost the fight by foul methods and incidentally

besmirched his own character.

Mr. R. S. W. Paterson, engin- in the Building Ordinance Oflice. P.W.D., was questioned as to whether in the ordinary" way such a report would have come to him if it had been made two years ago. He stated that it

What is the reason for such a dis- In mining. Min-Chu wars, direeting

In reply to other, questions wit- purity between the Chinese and the His Kinng and Chang Hsiness said that he visited the scene foreign cases? Why is it that Mining Companies. In electric

foreigners, many of whom are alien to the climate of China.)

At the time of writing the asks the same paper, contrive to official reply of the British Consul-survive the rigours of a severe General has not reached us, but if to the soil and acclimatised to summer whilst those indigenous" the report cabled to one of our local atmospheric conditions pay morning contemporaries may be such a heavy toll whenever taken as trustworthy, our repre-

cholera rages in a particular area?i Is it not because the masses 'OF sentative in Canton seems to have the people refuse to adopt those given a Roland for an Oliver. He elementary measures et precau- asks in laconic term why, iron, both as regards "food and China is not at war with Great drink, which are enjoined on the foreigner and Chinese ake buti Britain, is Hong Kong blockaded which only a slender proportion of and British products classed as the latter take seriously?

It is disheartening, to observe enemy goods? And, very pertin ently, he adds that an explanation majority of Chinese repose in the pathetic faith which the for this is necessary before the quick doctors of the "kill orture" withdrawal of the British war-Brder. As a rule he kills, in ships. The Canton Government, which case there is nothing to worry about, but if in other in- it is now clear, was hand in glove stances he contrives to cure his with the pickels and therefore a victim, it is not because of the party to all the illegal outrages proficiency shown, as the "China Press" points out, but in spite of committed by the latter during him. The family of the late Mrs. A the last fourteen months. Little; The work of the Chinese Rooper deaire to thank their relatives and friends for their kind wonder that it now whines and Y.M.CA. in endeavouring to re- place the faith of the masses in of sympathy, floral groans when it finds the occupa charlatanry by a grounding in the expressions bributes and attendance at the tion of the pickets on the river elementary laws of hygiene is a Cuneral.

front gone. Little wonder that it commendable one which will meet feels aggrieved that it should have with the approval of all who have the best interests of the Chinese! Hongkong.. Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1928, been taught a salutary lesson on at heart.

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on the morning of the disaster und climbed to the place where the rock hall come from. The ground was very sodden at that point but there was no evidence of a wash- Jout by water. Witness thought that any years ago the two boulders, one of which was still on the ledge from which the other" had fallen, had formed one.

Mr. R. E. Lindsell, Coroner, said: he had been informed that mort- ing that Professor: Earle, of the University of Hongkong, who was ut present in Shanghai, had made a report of insecure. houlders at the spot in question. He suggest- ed that witness should communi- cate with Mr. Pearce, engineer of the P.W D.. telling him what he (the Coroner) had heard and ask him to come to the Court and make a statement.

This was done and it was intim- ated that Mr. Pearce was at Home two years ago and therefore could not say if any report was made.

Mr. Paterson added" that re- cords had been searched and no trace.of any such report could be found.

The inquiry was adjourned until September 19.

GAS FATALITY,

JURY RECOMMEND USE OF MASKS.

ACCIDENTAL DEATH.

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works, he had. considerable interests in the Shanghai Nantno Tramway

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Construction Co. and the Chousan Electric Co. "

gas masks should be used was made

Co, Ltd., the Ting Hai Electric A recommendation that

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He was director of the "Sin Wan Pao." a leading Chinese daily news-

He handed in a copy

tractors were notified of the regu- Jations.

The foreman of the jury said he

In navigation, Mr. Che was at the further inquiry into the HEATING FOR SNAKE director of the Chusan Steam death of a coolie from the effects Navigation Co., the Yung An Stenm-of gus poisoning while working at LUXURIOUS CAGES AT

ship Co., the Yang Lee Shipping the Peddler Street nallah. THE ZOO;

The inquiry was conducted by Co. and the Chang Ho Navigation

Major Wilson at the Central spoiled by spleen and bad' temper, Prominence having been given")

After prolonged research work, a which has led him to lose his to the fact that deportees from wonderful system of heating, light- the Lang Chang Paper Mill the jury

Besides these Mr. Chu organised Magistracy yesterday, assisted by a other colonies, are sent here, Honging, and stimulating has been Ta Ya Factory, the Ta Tah Steam Mr. D. S. Edward. Assistant nerve and descend to fabricatione Kongites may think they have just arranged for the snakes and alliga-ship Con the Nanta Water Works, engineer, FWD deposed to having and insults unworthy of any man cause for being indignant. "This tors in the London Zoo's new Rep-the. Shanghai Cement Co., the Lissed a warning to the contracters in his position. His is a sorry jis a fine state of affairs," writes tile douse which will be ready ah and Chung Hsin Flour Mills, Prior to the accident to use precau- serced indeed, and simply shows correspondent. "Is Hong Kong a next year.

the Shanghai Silk Manufacturing tions when the tentage of gas was second Botany Bay?" he asks. į Dark heat-rays and tonic lightCo, the First Woollen Goods dienvered. that the present Canton regime No, this little outpost of empire is rays are part of the scheme, and Factory, the He Hsin Iron Foun-of the regulations concerning work lucks the first principles of states- by no means a convict settlement when a snake dies, in future, the dry, the Ho Fung Cotton Mill and of this kind, and said that con- manship and diplomacy. Further-nor a repository for undesirables. Zoo will accept no excuse save that

others. By reason of its geographical of senile deeny, or, possibly, can- more, it reveals what has all along position-its proximity to the nibalism by a third party. bean suspected that the Canton homes of deportees from neigh- The cages will be glimpses of pager, He was trustee for the understood that gas masks were Government will not candidly ad- bouring colonies-Hong Kong is a nature with beautifully modelled Shanghai Commercial School. the used in such cases at Home. Wit- mit the lawlessness of the picketsort of distributing centre. That backgrounds designed by Miss Joan College, the Ting Hai School, the es said he had put forward the 12 never ceasing campaign is Procter, who created the water-Tung Chi Medical and Engineering idea and some reflection had been outrages nor their breaches of waged to weed out bad characters pictures in the Zoo Aquarium. The Sheng Yi School in Tinghai and Yi cast on it, the question being raised international treaties during the is evident from the number of alligators will sun themselves on Chi School of Ningpo. In philan- cf whether the coolles would last fourteen months, against persons of both sex-deported shelving "Florida beaches" fringed thropic and public enterprises, he understand the masks.

In reply to another question by which it has been repeatedly when a conviction is not feasible with water-plants, and tropical was director of the Union Club, the

Then there are those banished vegetation. You will АСС no Chinese Red Cross Society, the the foreman, witness, said the use warned.

after a term in jail. Further fower-pots in the anakes and Ningro Guild, the Ting Hal Guild, of masks ensured safety but he Having failed to profit by the there are the mendicants who are lizarde' enclosures to shatter your the Door of Hope, the Kwang Yi, thought some of the Chinese were intervention of the small British Packed off to beg in their own

All these cages will show them-Institution, the Ningpo Hospital, them.

Jen Chi and Wei Chung Benevolent not sufficiently intelligent to wear cities. Not so long ago, the usual party on the British term of departation was five selves as brilliantly-lit spectacles the Kwang Chi Hospital, the Tung thei all recruits had to learn how wharves in Canton by repudiating years. It is rarely under ten now, to visitors who themselves walk in Chi Hospital, the Shanghai Summer to use maks.

a pleasant twilight.

Witness added that gas magka Disenso Hospital, the the, pickets entirely., the Canton So much for what is being done to

Each reptile will be given exactly Quarantine Hospital, the Shanghai were obtained from the military Government has fallen into the rid the Colony of pests in our own the right amount of electric heat. Kung Li Hospital; the Shanghai Or- authorities and brought into use

midst. People with no fixed trap of ranging itself on the side means of abode or other under-11.82 degrees is prescribed, a phanage. the Hain Pu Pi Tang, the when the work was held up,

thermostat (heat regulator) will be Pu YI Industrial Home, the Anti- Commenting on the evidence, cf the pickets. It can no longer world "characters" of Singapore set. to that point, and the warmth Kidnapping Society, the Tung Yi Major Willson said the man was aith the fence and toy with the and other places are rounded up will be shut off automatically if it and Liengyl Philanthropic In-discharged from hospital as cured, dictionary in an effort te con-authorities, being in closer touch, be bented, the water warmed, and Rice and the International what he did or ate after his dis- and repatriated. The Hong Kong is exceeded. The sandy floor will stitutes, the Bureau for the Cheap but there was no evidence to show vince outsiders of its sincerity in act as receiving agents and then the air-temperature controlled in Famine. Relief Committee. assisting to end the boycott. It send the deportees on to their re- the same way. The failure of a

The jury returned a verdict of has been forced openly to com- Chinese who come back under cally in a control-room.

man, who, spective destinations. Of the thermostat will report, itself electri-apart from his outstanding ability death from coal gas poisoning add- mend the weapon of the boycott guard from the South, it should Zoo visitors

the world of commerce was a Ing that no blame or negligence was and to threaten, reprisals by be stated that the majority are atmosphere in the new Reptile sense of the word.

the realdent of Shanghai in the truest attached to anyone. They added a A man of rider that in such cases gas masks means of that same weapon which not Cantonese, in the strict sense House no warmer than that outside engaging character and sterling should be used, the wearing of

of the term. has led to all the present trouble from the Swatow district. Others of stuffiness wil vanish.

Some are Hokloa the building, and the old reproach worth his business preoccupations them to be supervised by a "dom- and to the cleavage between the may hail from Hainan leland.

at no time prevented him from do- petent Chinese foreman. L, G. M. "ing the best service possible in the Governments of Canton and Hong Then there are natives of Fukien

The French Government, it is province. Kong.

On arrival in Hong- Dr. V. K. Ting is at present foreigners as well ne Chinese have announced, intends to introduce a kong, the deportees are marched in Nanking where he is laying be-occasion to be grateful for the Bill in the Chamber of Deputies In descending to such scurrilous up to Police Headquarters where fore Marshal Sun Chuan-fang a fact that such a man of such ex-instituting a taxe de sejour of 20 expressions as Britain's "gunboat fingerprints are taken. A special report on the disbandment of the cellent qualities could find the per cent. on the Hotel bills of for- policy" and the "rough-neck man who is trained for the job Chinese Precautionary Force. He time he did to serve them in aeigners from countries with an

looks after the emigranta and will at the same time confer with manner which will method of the sailor" the Canton supervises their departure from the Marshal on details concerning associated with his name. O. similar to that which is to be ap- always be appreciated rate of exchange, Government has placed itself out-lour shores,

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