The Archive · 1925

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Sale fret Permed graph of your letter that in future, /slterations to the fares may be made by your Company in its discretion, without reference to the Council, I jem directed to inform you that, since such further revisions would necessarily be dependent upon an assessment of the disadvantage alleged to be suffered by the Company by fluctuations in exchange, as to which there might arise some divergence of view, the Council is unable to depart from the standpoint that in the future, as in the past, proposed alterations of tramway fares must be the subject of special proval by the Council in each case. Lam, Sir, Your obedient servant, when a 12 year old Chinese boy who was on his way to school was seized by a gang of men in an alleyway off Bubbling Well Road, which resulted in the death of two of the culprits who were shot by a Sikh avian, and the wonsding ofa lestrian by a stray ne of the deceased kidnappers has been identified as having taken part in the forcible abduction of a four year old child from 85 Avenue Road on April 17.

'A. Chinese who was handed over by the French Police on March 13, 1925, charged with kidnapping a child from 29 Kin Wo Ka on November 18, 1924, was under remand. at the end of the month. A Chinese who was kidnapped from his E.S.B, Rowe, home at 167 Park Road on February Secretary: 28, 1925 was recovered by his father R.B. Hexomer, Esq.

Deputy General Manager, Shanghai Electric Construction

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