CO129-490 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 582

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those individuals who did very arduous public service as transport workers, members of the Shameen Defence Corps and so forth. Especial mention is due to two members of the community, Mr. Kearney, a Canadian, went for Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Co., and Mr. Scotchmer, an American, agent of the Texas vil Company. these undertook the hardest and at the same time the most important job on the island, the working of the

When the employees left nump for the water supply.

hameen, the pump was discovered to have been neglected for a long time past 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. Scotchmer deserve the thanks of the community for for the manner in which they tackled their task, en- gaging in stremous manual labour, occasionally for as 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

It would therefore have those available was limited.

been found very difficult to cope with the situation had it not been for the assistance rendered by the wavy, the French Concession being of course looked after by the French Navy. As regards the British Concession, the Commodore in Hongkong gave the Senior Naval Officer in Canton, Commander kaxwell-Scott, a free hand to take