Services Mr. C. S. Franklin, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Council, has sent the following letter to Major K. M. Bourne, M.C, Commissioner of Police:—
It affords me great pleasure on behalf of my colleagues on the Watch Committee and on the Council. also on my own behalf, to convey to you and. to all ranks of the Force, including the Police. Specials, our high appreciation of the excellent appearance of the Force throughout the Inspection Parade on October 30.
The bearing of Officers and Men, their disposition and their discipline, afforded convincing proof of the high state of efficiency of the Police Force, and I take this opportunity to offer you the Council's sincere congratulations on the eminently satisfactory state of the Force under your command.
The Council recognises to the full the splendid service which the Police Force consistently renders to the community in the preservation of law and order in the Settlement, and extends its special thanks t those members of the regular Force and of the Police Specials whose faithful service for so many years and whose courageous conduct when duty dictates have earned for them the well merited bestowal of the Long Service and Distinguished Conduct Medals which were awarded.
Assistant Warder E. Schofield, of the Ward Road Gaol staff, was yesterday being sought throughout Shanghai. Schofield, a former British navy man who joined the jail personnel recently, was reported missing on Tuesday, It was announced that he had been last seen last Friday. No trace of the missing man had been reported up to a late hour yesterday.
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