Sir Everard Fraser M. Consul-General, has receiv-2 the following letter from the Chairman of the King's Fund for the Disabled, expressing thanks for the efforts of Shanghai in this propaganda or administrative expenses, so that every penny raised has gone direct to the beneficiaries.
The Fund closed at the end of March last in respect of new applications, and the remaining Business will shortly be concluded, when a final report will be prepared.
Iam, Yours sincerely, cause Cromwell House, Millbank, $.W.1.
Tune 16, 1920.
Dear Sir Everard—As Chairman of the Council of the King's Fund, I desire to convey to you an expression of the Council's grateful appreciation of the splendid support which you and those associated with you, have given to the Tund, The total amount of contribu tions received from Shanghai is over £40,000, and as upwards of 40,000 awards have been made to disabled officers and men and to the widows and dependents of those who fell in the war, Shanghai_ ha: in effect, helped each beneficiary to the extent of £1. I think this is a very satisfactory result for which thanks, in a special measure, are due to youth self, Doubtless you are aware that contributions have been disbursed without deduction on account of Overcoxe with a combination of heat and heart failure, a ricsha coolie in Szechuen Road tottered and fell dead between the shafts of luis vehicle on Thursday, A foreigner was knocked down by a motor-car on the Bund, tween Nanking and Kiukiang Roads, at %30 p.m. last Friday. Fortunately he did not suffer any serious injury other than a severe shaking.
DeatH in two instances on Thursday came as a pardoner for highway robbers, chopping off nine and j17 years from gaol sentences. Both were sentenced in 1917, one to serve 20 years for armed robbery and the other 12 years for highway robbery and attempted cell breaking. One died at the prison infirmary and "the other at the police hospital.
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