Gallant Staff of Foreigners and Chinese Stick to Their Posts: A Vital Public Service ATER—ONE of the prime necessities of human existence, without which man could not survive for more than, a few days at most; how has the supply of this precious substance been maintained without fail right through the present hostilities? Shot and shell, fires, incendiary bombs have all approached perilously close to the Shanghai Waterworks Plant in Yangtszepoo.
But still the gallant staff of foreigners and Chinese have stuck to their posts, ensuring that the enormous quantity of 50,000,000 gallons is pumped through to. consumers in the Settlement every 24 hours. Even when Chinese troops were advancing into the Settlement, towards the Whangpoo, and the fighting was not so far from their doorstep, they worked on to ensure a continuous supply of pure water throughout the city.
When the full story of the maintenance of the water supply in conditions which have never before been equalled in Shanghai fully Known, Shanghailanders will gasp in amazement. Individual members of the Waterworks staff, of course, merely consider that they are doing their job—under slightly abnormal conditions, Actually, they are the most indispensable of all Shanghai's public utilities. If the water supply were entirely cut off, and no emergency measures were—pogéible, Shanghai's swollen population could not exist for more than a day and a half.
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