Just five years ago congratulation were being offered to the Shanghai Municipal Couneit on the succession of Mr. A, D, Bell to its chairmanship, an office' to which he then brought seven years' experience of the Counci and 28 years' residence in Shanghai, Mr, Bell had the dificult task of steering the Council through the months of recovery from the Sino-Tapanese struggle which, indeed, did not formally end until within thee weeks of his assumption of office. For two years he presided over the Council. "His interest in Education Jet its mark on the municipal history of that period. "He combined success fully the tastes of a scholar with the administrative energy of the business man, The Lester Trustees of whom he was for several years a colleague were known to set great store by his advice and, after he had retired from Municipal polities, he was ever ope to consultation by ofMfeials or councillors who knew that his experience ave him the means for assisting them on this or that point. 'The general esteem in which he was held was appropriately marked by calling on him to preside over the Annual Hate-avers' meeting after the departure of Mr. A. W. Burkill, Mr. Bells unexpected death, after a few weeks!
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