Father Sees Son Plunge to Death Head First Fireman 357 Wong Vu met death on 'Jan. 3 at a blaze which did large damage to the top of the Feteo Building, 452. Kiangse Road, falling 40 feet to'
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members "of "the "Shanghai Fire Brigade for over 11 years, Wonk Yu's death was the more poignant in that his. father was. standing near him when he skidded on a_wet roof to hig death. First Class Fireman 365 Wong Tsi-ziang and hie were not only members of the department, but actually. were the same station and on ths same Mr, William Vinson Lee who was cree opener of We [en ut
received from Mr. R. International President of the International Association of Y's. Men's Clubs, the following' notifieat "That, at, the International Convention held at Detroit last Augast, it was unanimously decided that ing to the growth of Y's Men's Clubs overseas. to. create four new overseas regions, namely-Chinese, Japanese, Australian and regions. ' These will be sub-divided districts under the guidance of point ie Various Regional District Governors, wit will be ap:
Owing to Mr. W. Vinson Lee's long and devoted service-to "the movement, the President has appointed him Director for the Chinese Region, at present he will have under his control eleven clubs, The Region is divided into three districts. Northern, Peking. Tientsin and Tsingtao Clubs: 1, Nanking and Shanghai Clubs; Southern, with the Amoy, Foochow, Hongkong, Canton, Cebit and Colombo Clubs, and District Governors for these" will shortly be appointed by Mr. W. Y.
The Y's Men's Club movement was originally started in China by Mr. Vinson Lee in 1924 and he has since been instrumental directly or in? Tepresentat 's Men's Inter-[directly in organising nine clubs as
of well over 500, the hose labs have fand has for its motto "Fellowship, Shanghai one being the principal, jeulture and service," the members being drawn from the leading business' and professional men of the ort. Phe main activity of he hanghai Club is Child Welfare work amongst the poor. At their Chapel Baby Clinic last year, in spite "of the trouble at the begin: ning of the year when all work had. to be abandoned for a time, they 10,- 000 visits, which does not include an enormous' number of free vaccine: tion:
The object of Y's Men's Clubs is to build up future citizens physical ily and mentally and whilst they have no direct connection with YMCA. one of the requisites of a candidate that he should be a member of that organisation,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.