Mr, Chang was also named Chang] Tung-chow, after the place where was born and. which he. sav transformed into a huge, modern city with wide roads, electric ights and up-to-date water supply. This is an honour seldom granted to Chinese citizens and only. hai a dozen living Chinese still hold the title, including Marshal Tuan Chi-ju x-President Li Yuan-hung, ox-President Hau Shih-chang and Mr. Kang Vu-wei, the well-known scholar and monarchical reformer, who, by the way, was a very close} friend of the deceased gentleman.
At the time of his death, the late Mr. Chang Chien was 74 years of age, Much. sympathy will be extended tothe members of his family. which includes Br. Chang Chien, Jr. (Chang Sha former Industrial Commissioner to Europe, America and. Japan "and. Chinese Minister to. Chile, who was_at his father's bedside at the time he passed away.
At this point the typhoon evidently collided with an area of high pressure which retarded its pro gress, for observations indicate that for seven hours and a half it hardly changed its situation. muting the night on Bfond: evidently got under way again and at 840 a.m. on Tuesday it was reported in Istitade 26 degrees, longitude 122 degrees, or a few miles to the northeast of Foochow.
About the middle of the forenoon on Tuesday the low pressure area passed from the China Sea to the Tand at a point about 40 miles senti:
Wenchow. During the afternoon it travelled in an almost northerly direction and at 4.30 p.m., at the time the gun in Shanghai was fired, warning the smaller river craft the approaching storm, the typhoon was directly west of Ningpo, pro-ably 100 miles.
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