commendation of the Acting Common.
Japanese Company.—Upon the re-
dant, s commission s# lieutenant to command the Company is authorized for issue to Lieutenant Shire Koaze of the Japanese Reserve.
Public School for Chinese, A letter from I'r. F. L. Hawks Pott ead, containing resignation of membership of the School Committee as a result of his impending departure for the United States. It i decided to convey to Dr. Pott " cordial expression of the Council's thanks for the work which he has done in the inter-
Road Extensions and Widenings.
Foochow Road.—Acceptance is authorized of the offer of the Union Iosurance Society of Canton to surrender trip of Cadastral lot 423 required for the widening of this rod at the rate of Tis 40,000 per mow with 10 per cent added, Area involved Mow 0.141, Ta Wang Temple Processi The following correspondence is ordored for publication Shanghai, 27th Jue, 1907.
have the honour to encloan copy and translation of a letter from the i Shanghai Taotai asking that the procession which caused 60 many casualties tear the Stone Bridge two months ago, be prohibited in the future, and beg to request you to make us know the views of the Municipal Council on the subject, There the booour to be, Gonna General for Bei and Senior Conviky Chairman, Municipal Council, Translation "f letter from the Taotai to the Senior Consul, dated 9th June, 1907.
I am in possession of the following report from the Shanghai District Magistra "The site of the sinza Ta Wang temple is within the limits of the Concession. Every yenr, during the third month grout procession, escorting the idol, tarts from there, " custom of very long standing. A permit is first delivered by the Municipal Council. This year the nineteenth day of the third month being the date of the procession, I sent soldiers and runners and informed very police-station to send policemen to maintain order. But on that day the crowd of gazers la and about the Concession was much toogrest and when the procession after having passed the Pinta bridge retraced its step, those place and the parapet on the loft side of fort
the bridge broke down and more than hundred men fell in iver. About half of them were rescued by proceed to salvage in smal twenty-four corpses of drowned men and women were successively recovered. I kept there my runners day and night to continue salving but no more corpsee were recovered, When they heard news of this, deceased relatives quickly came to recognize and bury the victims. Those of the latter who had not been recognized by any one were buried bys benevolent society and photographed for. purpose of further identification. On the spur of the moment most of the people present were weeping and wailing. For me I am disconsolate because I did not teke precautions before-band, Conscious of what happened this time and caused so great calamity, I cannot but blame myself for the past and be on rd for the future, It cannot hi the facta taking they may be tol therefore had an enquiry tipsos and from their report appear that the procession was led by hang Shuen-ching ti lief priest of temple, together with one Li Jul:
have asked the Mixed C to have these men arrested and, wi to Court, tried and punished. the same time T have issued ins'ructio: s things for ever, But ide the Concession isauo- a permit. And alth ugh a this catastrophe all the Coosuls but desire to wuch autems it in to human lifo," to form auch and to protect Such religious processions are in reality an offence against the law, In the present case the passing of the Ta Wang procession in the Concession caused 10 great obstruction and trouble, thst more than some tens of people wore drowned, a very pitiable thing which we could not bear 10 hear again. Severe interdiction must be made. Besides giving orders accordingly I have to ask Fou to tell the Muni ips! Council to make also interdiction for ever in onder to avoid the cocnrronce of auch calamity.
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