We Kam with very deep regret that news has been' received by telegram from Yokohama of the death there, by drowning while bathing, of Mr. Robert Arthur Brand, who was for many years a most popular member of the Shanghai community. It is con-lectured that he was seized with cramp or heart failure.
Mr, R. A, Brand was the Youngest son of the late Mr. David Brand, and of Mrs. Brand, of Shanghai, and was born in_'London on December 5, 1893. He received his early education at the Shanghai Public School and was afterwards for some years at Clifton College, England. Returning to Shanghai in 1910, he joined the New Zealand Insurance Ca., and was later on with the Cathay Trust, After a few years he joined the Shanghai office of the Union Insurance Society of Canton, During his residence here he was very popular amongst a large circle of friends, both old and new, and took a great and active interest in local field sports, being particularly prominent in cricket. For five seasons he was one of the first eleven of the Shanghai Cricket Club, meeting with considerable success both as a batsman and a bowler, but chiefly in the latter capacity, In Interport cricket he jropresented Shanghai on two occasions against hongkong and twice against Weihaiwet. In the latter part of [915 he was transferred to the Hongkong office of his firm, and shortly afterwards went Home to offer his services to the nation. He served with distinction in the Great European War with the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards, in which he held a commission, and was awarded the military Cross. He returned to Hongkong early last year, and about two months ago was transferred_to the Yokohama branch of the Union Insurance Company.
To his mother, and __his two surviving brothers' and six sisters, the deepest sympathy is extended in their bereavement, which seems the more sad from the fact that the deceased's elder brother, Mr.
A. Brand, made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War, unemployed American named -de appeared before Mr. N. Lurton at the A, S. Court last Friday charged with having been drunk and incapable on Broadway the previous night, He was ordered to pay the costs of the hearing, and sent to prison for three days.
Haxvearts as well as motor-cars get unruly in this weather. The cement post that stands sentinel on a traffic island at Nanking and Szechuen Roads was decapitated by a handcart, and another cart, laden with iron bars, tried to uproot a telephone pole at Thibet and South Soochow Roads. In the second instance the handcart lost.
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