The Archive · 1932

THE LATE Condolences by

Successor The ceremony of encoffining the body of the late Dr. Hou-ki Hu took place on Oct. 19 at the International Funeral Directors' parlours in. Kia Jchow Road, in the presence of General Wu Te-chen, Mayor of Greater [Shanghai, General Chang Chun, former Mayor, other officials and members and fiends of Dr. Hu's Dr. Hu, who was Commissioner of the Bureau of Health of the City Government of Greater Shanzhai, died on Oct. 16 as the result of i Juries received in a motor accident on the new road to Hangchow on Oct. 15, one of the first victims of the new highway.

Accompanied by three friends, Dr. Hu had left Shanghai on Oct. 15 for Hangchow. He took lover the wheel from his chauffeur after the car had gone some tance and, when the ear had proceeded three miles beyond Halyen station, it skidded and went over {the side of the road on to the shore. injured in the head and body, Di Hu was taken to Halyen hospi where he died a few hours later.

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