Temporary Suspensions: Official Explanation: Council Inquiries Something would seem to have gone wrong with the water supply in the French Concession during the last few days. Complaints have reached us with regard to its inadequacy. According to our information the supply to one group of houses in Avenue Joffre has for some days past been cut off altogether for an hour or two in the morning, between 6 and 8 a-m., and again at noon. In another instance the report is: "No water at 9.30 a.m." A further complaint is that the Waterworks Company gave no notice of this stoppage, residents being thus seriously inconvenienced in cases where no precaution was taken of laying up a stock overnight. In one instance, a dinner party had been arranged and the fire had to*be put out in the kitchen for fear of bursting the boiler. It is also pointed out that any interruption in the supply during the hot weather may be dangerous to the occupiers of houses in which the "flush system" is installed. Similar difficulties were experienced last summer.
Upon referring the matter to an official of the Waterworks Company, we were informed that there had been no stoppage of the sapply, that the water had not been cut off at the mains. Reduced pressure was admitted and attributed to the fact that a large number of new houses have recently been connected with the mains, and also to the heavier demand on the service generally coincident with the warmer weather. It was also explained that the heavy rains of the past week or two carried an unusually large proportion of silt into the filter beds, one of which became choked and had to be emptied andi cleaned, thus temporarily lessening the source of supply. We understand that the officials of the French Municipal Council and the Company are in consultation on the matter, and no doubt measures will be taken to secure an adequate supply.
Am this year's commencement of St. John's University Mr. David Z. T. Yui, wa, general secretary of the National Committee of Y.M.C.A. in China, and one of the five members of the Chinese Advisory Committee to the Shanghai Municipal Council, will have conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. Honorary degrees of Doctor of Laws will be conferred upon Dr. C. C. Wang, PH. D., adviser on Railway Affairs to the Ministry of Communications, and Prof. R. McNutt Mc-Elroy, pH. D., professor of history at Princeton University. Two graduate students receive the degree of Master of Arts, 31 will receive the Bachelor of Arts degree, of whom 14 specialized in political science, 10 the Bachelor of Science, and one the degree of Bachelor of Divinity.
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