One of the oldest members in the service of the Shanghai Municipal Police, and certainly one of the most popular, Inspector Michael Ganly, is retiring from the force on April 14 and will be severing his relations with China when he leaves for his home in Dublin, Ireland, by the Fulda on April 28.
ike," as he is known to the' foreign members of the police, oF }Sae Hao" (Number Three), as' the Chinese police call hima, arrived in /Shanghai on October 19, 1906, after voyage of nearly two' months, he ving. travelled by a boat which did not do more than seven knots fan hour. His first taste of the Far East he received as he neared Hongkong when the steamer which he was travelling narrowly missed the tail end of a severe typhoon. Upon arrival kong, the entire harbour fed with floating wreckage.
Arriving in Shanghai, he found that the maximum number of for-ign police was 100, in addition to which there were 350 Sikhs and 700 Chinese... This number has more than trebled since. 'There was little or mo crime in those good old days man went out on his ith. w baton, ff a highway robbery took place at all, the news was flashed round to fall' stations in a few seconds and, when arrested, the thugs were foun! to be armed with no more dangerous 2 weapon than a piece of iron.
'The first foreign policeman to be shot by armed robbers was P. C. Morrow, who. met his death' in Hongkew in 1907. and to. whose memory there has been affixed in. JCentral Police Station a brass plate, When' the robbery. was reported, Constable Morrow, armed only with, Mhis baton, rushed to the scene and there he was fired at by four armed mand killed instantaneously. Eight months later, two of his murderers were captured and be headed.
Nanking: Road in 1906 ya narrow thoroughfare and. the tramlines had been" aid tram services did not actually' start until the following year.
In the field of sport, Inspector Ganly has made a name for himself as a football and lawn bowls player. He is a member of the: Police Recreation Club, the Junior Golf Chub and the Municipal Service
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