The Archive · 1933

Survivors in Dairen

'The Toonan, a freighter on the Shanghai-Yingkow run, left the northern port for the' south on Saturday." She stopped at Chefoo ick up passengers and cargo, and' departed for Shanghai. at 650 p.m, on. Sunday. While steaming the Shantung coast, she aided With the Choshun Mara, which was Wife deans Be the Municipal Council Gives Notice] Formation Sketched in Speech Connection with San Fi cisco to Owners by Mr. Percy Chu Ring Inquiries made by a "North-China S2me of the'ys Men's Giob, Feld The Chinese papers on July 10 ing a shal tifin Herald" reporter "on July 4 brought forth the explanation that the action taken by the Shanghai Municipal Couneit in regard to. the Nyi Yuen Voleanising' Works, 1002 North Chengt Ready had no rela-fon. to the resolution passed. the special meeting "of" ravepayfers In April for "the leet Sing of factories, but was taken funder the powers confersed upon the {Council for safeguarding the public against dangers of any nature As long ago as 1990, it is stated, this particular factory was the sabe ject ofa. request from the Setiletment. Fire Department. for the. de-volition of a. certain unauthorised Fracture which venderd the bute ing highly dangerous in case of fire Jat Dinty Moore's Cafe, Mr. Percy (Chu, Manager of the Joint Reserve Board and. Superintendent of the Clearing House of the Shanghai Bankers' Association, interesting address on these two. organ The President of the Club, Mr. W. Vinson Lee was in the chair and introduced a number of guests.

'Mr. Percy Chu in the course of his address sketched the history of banking in Shanghai and. said' the Joint Reserve Board had its origin jo year and a half ago during the Chapel trouble. A group of mo-Jdern Chinese bankers got together: to discuss ways and means 10 deal with the situation for it was most. importane that credit be maintain-stated that local narcotic syndicates were connected in no small way with the San Francisco drug exposure, the details of which have been published in the North-China Herald", The "Shun Pao" stated that a well-known local Chinese, who is now at liberty on $80,000 bail pending an appeal was concerned therein and that funds received by a firm in which he was interested had been transmitted to America, During several raids made by the French Police in the latter of June, account-books were found which disclosed the business rela-ions. At the same time "pink pill were found in profusion, Those arrested told the Court that the ac-

Jate yesterday, the accident occur-fie details of the id lor weideets Shetty. afterwards count books were the property of red at 3.50 a.m. in the vicinity of Tsingshanto, about 150 miles from Tsingtao and near Weihaiwei. The Toonan sank at 9.20 am, The Cho-gun Maru stood by and rescued the passengers and crew, As soon as the news of the accident reached Dairen, the Dairen Steamship Ca, owners of the Choshun Maru, rush-

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