The population of Shanghai for month of December, 1935, totald 3,551,523, according to statistics mpiled by' the Greater Shanghai municipal Bureau of Public Safety.
figures show that 2,035,318 rinese—1,157095 male, and" male—and 10139 foreigners reside the Chinese Municipal area; 971,397 nese and 30,471 foreigners in the ternational Settlement; and 470,294 nese and 18,809 foreigners in the ench Concession, making a total of 51,623, the enormous piles which are to form the basis for the foundations of a large part of the new Bank of China building now in the course of con: struction at the corner of Jinkee Road and The Bund is progressing, and within a short time work on the actual building may be expected to be com=
'The piles, which are to number 2,000 when' the work 1s completed, being sunk on the site of the tower and of the silver vaults where the load Is expected to be particularly heavy, and are necessary' in such. a building owing to the fact that. the soil consists mainly of mud, and there {is no kind of rock which could form 4 suitable foundation. The silver Vaults are to be among the largest in Shanghai. The piles, which measure 100 feot and 75 fect in height, are driven into the ground until a denser type of sell is reached at a lower depth, Information was sought in_ the House of Lords to-day by "Lord Marley, Chief Opposition Whip, concerning the alleged use of" force! against unarmed student demonstra-_ tors by the police, including Britons, in the International Settlement of Shanghai last December, but a formal motion in this respect was withdrawn afler a Government reply, Lord Marley, in requesting information concerning that matter, dwelt on 1,000 Blows Per Pite takes roughly 1,000 blows from a three-ton steam hammer to drive one tot these enormous piles right int" the ground. When they are" halt way into the ground, they sink from three to six Inches at each blow, but towards the end they are only driven in about fu inch at a time. After the piles have been driven in, the top parts. which have been damaged by the force of the steam hammer, are can off and made square in shape, and the concrete, which forms the next stage in the foundations, is poured over them, making a hard, smooth and solid layer The wooden piles come from Oregon, US.A., and are] made from the famous Oregon pine.
In order to prevent the surrounding roads from falling into the exeavar Hons. strong steel sheet piles are being driven into the earth around the site of the building, Four steam hammers are being employed in the work of pile driving, and two of these, each measuring 120 feet in height,' wore specially constructed for this' particular job, being the largest of their type to be used in Shanghai, The other two are of the standard size and height. The work "of construction, which' was begun last November, is expseted to be finally completed about the beginning of next year. the architects responsible for the plans and drawings being Messrs. Palmer and Turner, Gen. Hsu Chung-chih, Vice-President of the Control Yuan, who want to Hongkong to welcome Mr. Hu Han-min, Chairman of the Standing Com-title of the Central Executive Committee, arrived from the South on Monday, Feb. 3 in the s. President Jackson: According to Gen. Hsu, Mr, Hu is to come north after a brief est. Mr. Hsian Fu-chen, another inluentiat leader in the Southwvest, will accompany Mr. Hu. the peacefulness of Chinese demontrations in Shanghai, Replying, the Earl of Stanhope, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that reports he had read the Shanghai newspapers concerning the demonstrations there differed very materially from Lord. Marley's account of the happenings.
It was obvious from these reports: that the students had disorganized trae and had tried to enter. the Settlement, He stated that he would Inquire whether the police under the control, of the Shanghai Municipal Council had used undue violence, but thought that the very last thing the Municipal Couneit would desire them, to do would be to attack Chinese unduly and raise bad feeling between Chinese and foreigners.
"It Is so obviously against the interests of everybody on the Cotineil jand people living in Shanghai that 1 very much doubt the accuracy of, Lord Marley's information," he added.
The Earl of Stanhope, however, undertook to ask Mr. Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, to make nines from Shanghai—Reuter.
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