Suggested Shanghai, Aug. 31.
That Peking Road be renamed Sing Loh Road in memory of the well-known banker and member of the Shanghai Municipal Council was suggested in a letter sent by Mr. Chen Ting-jul to the Chinese Ratepayers Astociation in the Settlement yesterday.
Mr. Hsu, the late general manager of the National Commercial Bank "which is in Peking Road, was a), passenger in the China National Aviation's plane foreed down by Japanest planes and sunk in forty feet of water While en route from Canton to Hat kow. The body of the banker has been recovered.
Other measures suggested by the writer of the letter, who is a lawyer and takes an active part in the work of the Chinese Ratepayers Association, include the petitioning of the Chinese Government to bestow posthumous honours on Mr. Hsu, the naming of the next aviation school to be established after the banker's name, the establishment of a scholarship fund to send Chinese abroad to study aviation and, the holding of a public funeral for Mr. Hsu.
The letter paid a high tribute to the learning and character of Mr. Singloh Hsu whose tragic death was regarded as a loss to the Chinese race. The measures were suggested for perpetuating his memory, the letter pointed out. The Chinese Banker: Association and the Chinese Chamber of Commerce were also urged to help carry out the above measures, 'A Memorial Fund In_ an advertisement published in yesterday's Chinese paperg, attention was drawn to the raising of a fund in memory of Mr. Singloh Hsu. As soon a3 a good sum has been collected, committee will be formed to decide the form of memorial to his name.
The advertisement further drew the public attention to the fact that a similar suggestion had been made by Mr. G. E, Mitchell (his letter was published in the *N.-C.D.N.") to raise fund for establishing a scholarship, educational institution, or such other memorial as may seem appropriate, further pointed out that the "North-China Daily News" was accepting and acknowledging donations fo suena fund, British Chamber and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.