xenicus a close student of military affairs apparently, though policeman by profession, infor that the t A link with Imperial the beginning of China's Industrial development has been severed by ihe sing of St Chaos Duncan Feb. 1.
nwart, where death "occurred The son of Mr James Stewart, the "Grand Old Man" of Tlentsint Mr. Charles Duncan Stewart was born in the East Arsenal, 'Tientsih, which was. built by his father the instructions of Li Hang-chang, China's great' Viceroy, and where his father was engineer and mane ger 'Ava bop, the late it Stewaty was sent hone to Stirling, where the family came from, and served his apprenticeship as an engineer at' the works of the' Southgate Engineering Ca.. Ltd, Southgate, England. "He jsturned "to Ching after finishing his apprenticeship and Joined the engine the Kailan Mining A at Tongshan, serving under several chief "engineers including Mr. Herbert Hoover, then connected" with the K.M.A. and now President" of the United Star About the year 1901, Mr, ent out to South Africa with the frst contingent. of Chinese' labour to work' on the Rand and fox several Years" he" Was in. charge of all the Chinese labour employed at the De Beers diamond mines.
He returned to China in 1912 and became: engineer and general man ager of the Tientsin Gas and Elec. {eity Works whith position he filed until' 1016 when he went to." England to join the army. Rejected on. physical grounds, he found a past with the "Woolwich "Arsenal where until the end of the war he was chief inspector, "He again veturned' to "China"" but when" the Tientsin British Munk Gd'to take if he re igned and joined Forbes and. Ca. Tt the connection "with This company" that Strumental in sll Itlue Express to the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, one of the finest trains the world at that time, 5 Later, settled at Tsingtao where he opened up an office for an engineer and oventtaly retired in 1900," Mu, Stewart distinguished engineer, one of the leading members of his profession in the Far East, He was AMLME, and was greatly respect-that the authorities were afral that, if the public were allowed to id od by his fellow engineers.
off crackers ae usual, he Japa 'AS a keen rider and huntsman in ese might avail themselves of the his early days, he was prominent, in the sporting world but one of his opportunity to fy over Peking and drop bombs under outstanding capabilities' was his the profound knowledge of Chinese noise, Which he demonstrated" not only palace celebrated their: New' Year For the rest.
Peking _po-while. in charge of Chinese, coolie labour in the diamond fields but: on the long euston All several outstanding. occasions when the shops were for three dayr—w 'a small. window completely hhere-and there pen to. hand out iis service were enlisted by, the British authorities as interpreter. remain so until the the ign month from' morning till night with people of all classes, dressed in their best clothes, exchanging. There wicked and unpatriotic profiteers, the rickshaw coolies, have been doing a roaring bu ess taking of pleasure-seekers to the fairs at the various temples in and around the city, which fairs, I am told, are more popular this year and more crowded than ever before, Very irritating, all this must, be for professors of geology and other patriotic persons.
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