Preparations Made to Convene a National Meeting Commandant's Official Good Bye In a special corps order issued on Thursday, Colonel N.W.B.B. Thoms, fered lis farewell to members of the Corps., reads:
An informal meeting of the five of China's industrial leaders select-by the Minist of Industry to prepare the preli mary procedure The first National Industrial Con ference will be held in the offices. the Federation of Chinese Industries, "On. relinquishing command of Hankow Road on Thursday, (Jan. the, Shanghat Volunteer Corps 25) according to information from A particularly tragi¢ affair, witn most painful explanation attached, Jeceured on Friday in the French Concession, involving the death of the wife of Mr. William Grooch, of the China National Aviation Corporation, and her two sons, William, ged seven, and Thomas, aged four years. The three apparently had fallen from the eighth-storey roof garden of the Washington Apart-Rents, in Avenue Petai It ig understood that, about, fortnight ago, Mrs. Grooch went up to the roof-garden and was very badly frightened when she found liber children playing, as she.considered, dangerously near the edge 'Of the flat, the parapet of which is Strgounted by sledge. about ft. wide, beyond which is a sheer drop of some 8) ft to the pavement. "It is said that the Wick of seeing her two children playing' on the. parapet sent. Mrs. hnysteries, and it ime before she recovered.
was to have sailed on the Presi dent' Wilson for the United States that night, and had arranged ave the children in the care of friends whilst she was away. theory is that fra, Grooch want up to the roof-garden that evening at about 6 o'clock, to]
a scene almost identical to that, of a fortnight before. She ran to-Wards the children and they fell yr, either startled at her. sudden car ance or by slipping when she caught hold of them. She is, then ought to have looked over, and fallen over the parapet.
Mr, Grooch, a pilot attached to the C. NIA. G, was one of the two} who made the inaugural fight to Manila, last year. Before this, he was manager of operations of the Pan-American Railways, in Rio Janeiro, He ix an American citizen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.