The Archive · 1921

Collapse of a Scaffold

Two coolies were at work on re.

's to the Thomas Hanbury School for Girls, Boone Aoad, on -Tuesday afternoon, when the scaffold. ing wave way and they both crashed to the ground. Two foreigners who were passing by acted promptly and rushed both the coolies off to St. Luke's Hospital, where it was found that one man had been so badly injured on the head that he was already dead. The other is not expected to live.

THe Shanghai and Woosung Rice Maintenance Association has writ-fen to the Shanghai City Magistrate asking him to see that his former order limiting the price of rice to $11 is observed, as, during the past few days, it has risen to $11.60.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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