Mr. F. A. Larsen recently drew a! tention in the Correspondence Columns to the desperate plight of the people of Mongolia who are ssu fering from the unprecedentedly severe winter. Mr. Larsen, it will be recalled, pointed out that heavy snows, Blizzards and bitter frosts had killed off thousands and thousands of seattle, sheep, camels and horses, reducing the unfortunate inhabitants to the Borderline of starvation. Mr.
Larsen is making a wide appeal on behalf of the Mongolians, among whom he has lived for over 40 years. With the ald of Dr. Sven Hedin he hopes to. raise subscriptions in Sweden. "Meanwhile an appeal has been broadcast through China for Public subscriptions to assist a repre-Senlative committee of foreigners, Mongolians and Chinese in Kalyan to buy sheep and cattle for those whose herds have been wiped out to enable them to make afresh start. Mis [Grace Fordham, who has worked Mongolia for 26 years and is living Hatton Esso, about 160 miles north fof Kalgan, wrote on March 13
We have had the most try.ng, bard winter, snow. and "blizzards nearly everyday. Tt "has been the worst inter T have ever experienced in Mongol and Tam entering on. my 2th year here. We are still snowed A feeling of intense loss amictea Shanghai this week when it was known that the sudden and serious iminess which had overtaken Mr.
'S. Heald on his way to Europe had "terminated fatally in the—hospital at Cairo, Endowed with exceptionally rich gifts of personality and character, Mr, Heald " was one of the foremost' industrialists in Shanghai. His management of the Shanghai Power Company. brought out to the full his high engineering skill and his perceptive grasp of the problems of handling an important key industry. His administrative ability was as unquestioned as his technical knowledge, He was ossentially a leader of men and responded to his leadership because it wag based _on personal eficiency and a broadminded outlook, To his wife, whose own contribution to the international life here has been so Bracefully effective, to his family and to the great company which has to mourn the loss of so. valuable a servant, "respectful condolences are tendered. The American community, in, particular, will receive special syfnpathy in thus losing, by an untimely death, a member who was in ect a fine model of the gentleman and who had won the esteem of all nationalities here in an especial degree,
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