M. Premet's office acts as manager for a local firm using a large quantity of electric light current each month, and so he immediately took ihe matter up with the power company, asking them to make the neces-sory adjustment. "This request was ignored," says M. Premet. "Upon my pressing the matter, the company replied to the effect that its meth of computing the bills was ways has been correct. action, but before this had been The sequel to this was & court completed the company admitted its error, states M. Premet, and declared itself ready to apply the sliding scale of reductions in accordance with the t of December 29, 1927. err premet points out that for a monthly consumption of 400 kilowatt-hours the consumer has paid Girl Survives in No Man's Land The poignant story of a Chinese girl who had barricaded herself in a house in the war zone for well over seven months was unearthed yesterday afternoon, when she was conveyed to hospital.
Mr. H. Y. McLean of Henry Lester Institute in East Seward Road found the girl Miss Chiang Kou-ming, in No. 11, Lane 175, oft Yuen Fong Road, near East Seward Road, at 4.40 p.m. yesterday, after an Indian watchman had reported to him. to have heard someone moaning in the house.
According to the girl, she and two relatives had lain hidden on the top floor of the house ever since the outbreak of the war on August 13. The food lasted a few weeks, after which they depended on water which was also cut off during the height of hostilities in the district. The two relatives died, the bodies being placed by her underneath a staircase. She was virtually reduced to a skeleton when found lying on a bed in a serious condition.
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