'A correspondent, who knew the late Mr. Shen Tun-ho intimately, sends us the following additional details of his most interesting and varied career. He writes:—Shen Tun-ho was in my opinion (and I have known him intimately for 14 years) one of the most. notable' men in some respects China has produced in modern times. He was for many years on the Educational Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Council, was an artist of no mean ability, and acknowledged authority on Chinese art. He was an exhibitor at Brussels and at Panama. recent years he has done much to revive interest in Chinese classic art. His reproductions in _painting and porcelain are well known.
He was in charge of the Woosung Forts when China was compelled to dismantle them and, as scapegoat, was deprived of rank and banished to the north. Whilst there his personal influence, contrary to orders, saved the lives of a number of missionaries in the Boxer days. Foreign influence obtained his recall.
He was managing-director_at one time of the Shanghai-Nanking, Railroad. He was in some way connected with the litigation. between China and the Kailan Mining, Administration. He was the founder of the Naval College at Nanking. He was a man of great {mental activity, 2 wonderful organized and, his chief characteris. tic was his never-failing benevolence. When the floods occurred a few years ago in the north he at once mortgaged his property quickly to raise funds to relieve the distress. It was he that took care of the family of the ex-President Li Yuan-hung when he was the enforced leader of the Revolutionaries in Hankow and they fled as fugitives to Shanghai.
He hes been the recipient of many foreign decorations and had he lived in England or America he would have been honoured by a grateful people for his' good works and his enterprise, whereas. he dies in his own country poor and in comparative obscurity.
more estimate character, Seldom in my life have 1 met a Ixgustice anp InGraritvpe.
There is no doubt whatever that. his end was hastened by the injustice and ingratitude of his own people towards him preying "upon is sensitive mind. It is only 'n China that a man whose whole life has been a record of devotion to the uplift of his fellow-countrymen could be so vilified and abused as he has been.
The unkindest cut of all was his. enforced retirement last year from the Vi residency of the Red Cross Society which he founded and with which lie was so prominently identified for many years. He failed rapidly from that time. Though he has not received that recognition from his: own nationals he so richly deserve ed yet his influence for good was. so far reaching that it is of permanent~ynationdl importance, I had intended myself writing his biography but left it too late. His memory was, until recently, remarkably clear as to dates and persons associated with occasions of historic importance in_ foreign: relations with China. He was a consistent admirer of the British as some of us have good cause to member, especially during the A few men of his character and ability controlling the national administration would in a very short time bring order cwt of the: chaos which has reigned supreme for so long in Chinese politics. As: for me I have lost a very dear friend and loyal supporter in any work for purely Chinese interests.
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