Another popular resident Shanghai passed away at the General Hospital on Sunday evening, in the person of Mr. Albert James Mathews. He had been in the East only four years, but his attractive personality, his genial manner and his outstanding business ability gained him a wide circle of friends.
Mr. Mathews, who was about 48 years old, was in the head office of the Commercial Union Assurance for many "years previous to the war was a member of the Artill: ry Ca, S.V. early on Sunday morning at Watanabe's Hospital, where he was removed after brain fever following a severe cold.
Bellman was born in Libau, on June 23,1892, and spent his adult life in Shanghai. He saw service with the German forces at Tsingtao and, upon the surrender of that port to the British and- Japan-exe forces, was taken to Nagoya, Ca, in London, for 20 years, gaining there a reputation as a distinetly clever fire loss adjuster. In 1921 he came to Shanghai, joining Messrs, L. Moore & Co's. fire loss adjusting department. "It was while with them that he had to tackle the problems arising from the 10 million taels silk filature fire and his work in connexion with that stamped him x fire loss: adjuster of outstanding abffity and earned him the unqualifio® praise of all his business
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