A Salutary Conviction the Baitor of the comniccutxa, Dat News" aport appearing in your Issue.
Sin=Ht ie pleasing to note from 2 Lith instant that the industrial See ion of the SIN. ©. has been instru mental in bringing before the Chinese Gourt 2 Chinese who, entrusted. with S"Golter. was responsible for. inter~ Terence with the proper operation of {te safety valve, and that' the Court fined the accused $10—
Atthough Tam not competent to comment whether of not the. punish= front Mitied" the crime T. hope. the EM, C. saw to it that sufficient Prominence was given the conviction the Chinese. press, gs 2. deterrent upon. similarly minded boiler "em= ployees some of whom realize, and fray of whom are not, fully aware, the dangers attendant upon wilful Interference with apparatus. installed solely to help safeguard. life and property, and T should Uke to. sug-Fest that had your report been given Creator' prominence. more owners of Shiters would have been prompted Yntensity' the vigilance they" must realize they should exercise over hel employees, in the public. and their own interests.
Ignorance and neglect have resulted in'so many deaths, and so much dest {uction, that propaganda must. be Constanlly maintained: rst to bring! fit boiler owners and minders to a fuller realization of the possibility their begeming personally involved in fu explosion, and then to. show the way towards' minimising this hazard, spite. of irritating obstacles the Gouneil hes achieved much towards fins goat, but the fruits of its efforts Will be more evident as Improvements in the working conditions of bollers, dnd in supervision over them, result from more, frequent expert inspeeions, and employees trained by the fualined boller engineers who preside the classes of instruction recently Inaugurated by the SMC, Increase number.
la this, way owners of bollers can do" much" toward discharging an Sbuigation to the public which many not yet appear to have regarded Nery seriously. "This latter comment ie'Dased upon a chance remark Te-cently made by an insurance official te the effect that the few companies Underwriting boller explosion insut= tee in. Shanghai receive enquiries almost exclusively from. the large foreign hongs.
Shanghai, Aug. 13.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.