London, Aug. 22
The Shanghai Waterworks Company is continuing to give a supply of water of its usual high standard of quality to every person who requires it, both in the Settlement and in those areas beyond Settlement limits in which its mains extend. The Chinese staff are working as usual and repairs to mains are being effected_as necessary.
While ample reserves of fuel and other stores exist, consumers are requested to avoid wasting water and also to report by telephone any instances of water running to waste.
While the Company's production plant and sub-stations are adequately guarded and protected, it has been considered desirable by the Council and the Company to provide for a water supply even in the very remote possibility of the Company's mains and production plant being rendered useless, and the necessary schemes for obtaining water from other sources are now well in hand.
To relieve the anxiety of the Company's Chinese employees at the Yangtszepoo works, all women and children from the staff quarters adjoining the plant are now being moved to a camp constructed by the Company in the Western District, No alarm should be felt by any consumer should his supply of water fail temporarily as it is probable that such cessation is due to normal repair and maintenance work.
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