The Archive · 1928

A Great Romance of Shanghai

Late Me, C, L. ANDERSEN

Death of a Resident who once Slept on the Bund and Who Gave £50,000 to a Museum (On Sunday there passed away one of the most remarkable residents of Shangissi in the person of Mr. Claus Laurits Andersen, a Dane who had attained the axe of 78. the history of the Settlement it will perhaps be impossible to find a Carver of such intense interest his and there ix the fact that details fare well authenticated by contemporaries, The amazing point about his enreor in that he required enormous wealth, and that it wes tious wealth, and that it was factually thrust upon hin, while he was a0 poor when he came here that many w time and oft he is believed opt on the Bund. Yet he 10 make the princely ft £50,000 only a year or tio the national museum

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