The Late-Mr. A.W.U. Pope, General Manager of S.N.R
Mx. Axthar William Uglow Pope, died suddenly of hoatefaare Bovine on December 14, 102%, the ape of 60. Me. Pope had a distingalahed career in Eastern railway aorvices "He was the som George Ulow Pope, (1820: 1908); the great ami yholae and lia by gan Govan Semoren, of the Sfadeas Henmctta Page, daughter gt Mr
Arbuthnot t Coe An elder brother ts. Profeator ohn van Romoren Pope, the. education who vs for i? years Director of eatin ta Baa, and ubnoquently Professor of Origa Languages at Trinity College, Dubtia"ihnothbe brothers who won di tine ion tr tnala, atthe ate Teatenant-Golonel Thomas Henry Pope, Professor of OTithalology ar'the Madras Metical. College.
Ste. Arthur Pope went ost to the nate rata servi In India, and Pome tobe trafic manager and aah~ oguently manager of the Outh ud obilhond Raliwaye "A man rear energy and of attractive dis fulton he mae fsionds quickly ares popular with his att. He tran created a COE" at the Dose Ming of 1906" in recognition of hia Tally service and his Keennes promoting. volunteering, Later be tran sledd to go U2 China as the neal manager of the. Shanghal-Ranking Haliway,-which he Tet March St, 101d, taking, nome. with many tokens of warm Pet anal roger of Chinen friends "He was employed during the Wat Tilvay ten eapmety of Maraelles lover, we: believe, sat Htavre, His last few yours wore apout quet-Devitoe, He marsied In 1884 Kontos danaliter of the Rev. 3. Bache of Ballygibliny Coy Cork, ake survives hi.
An Appreciation A correspondent wrote to "The The obituary notice of Mr. Arthur Uglow Pope cat, which appeared "The Times" of January 26, may be supplemented by a reference the "anxious experiences throu ich he passed during the Chines surrection of 1911, lending to the establishment of the Republic under the presidency of Sun Yat-sen. manager of the Shanghai-Nanking Railway, ho had a iffieult and sometimes a dangerous part to play between the royalist and insurree~ tionary' forces und the horde of eitf-raft who followed in. the wake of both in search of plunder. Since hig first daty was to preserve the line and keep it open for trafic, ho decided on a policy of neutrality. Probably but for this decision the revolutionaries would have attacked tthe station at Shanghat (they were already masters of the city and ar-1), nnd then, whether successful or not, an engagement with the: volunteers vho had been protection the Tine would have brought the into direct collision with Germans, British, Japanese, Portuguose—all the countries represented in the settlements. After the retirement of the Imperial forees, Mr, Pope recognized the revolutionaries as de facto in possession, and offered no obstacle to the transport of troops, runs, and munitions for the advance.
the Republicans on Nanking: at the end of November. Through all those anxious weeks he insisted on the principle that any man coming to the railway was protected as long og he was on its premises. The card that he had was the threat to case the line, and the revolutionary los were too. shrewd not to reongnize that this would have erippl ed them.
On the establishment of the Re public, Pope was appointed Railway Adviser to the Peking Board of Communications. The order of appointment, signed by Sun Yat~ sen, stated:—"It is necessary for to secure the services of well versed and widely exper anced in railway matters to whom the Board can look for advice and guidance on all matters relating thereto. Such a person is Mr, Pope, who has a wide reputati amongst Europeans and a long experience in all railway matters, We hereby invite him to take up the post, go muck beneath his merit, Of Adviser to this Board,.with the
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