Coast Inspector and head of ihe Marine Department of the Chinese Maritime Customs, died at the Country Hosptial at 640 am. yesterday following a short illness. Captain Carrel was born in Paris on March 15, 1884. After serving in the British Mercantile Marine he joined the Chinese Maritime Customs Service as a revenue cruiser deck officer in 1909. He was detached for service on the River and appointed District River Inspector at Hankow in Maren, 1912, ly becoming Lower Yangtze River Inspector in July, 1918. In December, 1929, he was transferred to Shanghai and was appointed Deputy Coast Inspector in June, 1930, succeeding Captain H. E. Hillman us Coast upon the latter's 1e-tirement in May, 1934.
In the capacity of Coast Inspector, Captain Carrel has rendered very useful service to the Chinese Government and to the shipping interests of all nations trading with China. He has been intimately associated wita the development of the aids to navigation in the Yangtze Rive, notably the establishment of radio beacons at Shaweishan, North Saddle and Guizlaff lighthouses in the estuary, thereby rendering it comparatively simple for vessels from North, East and South to make a safe landfall in all kinds of weather. When it was decided io make a much seeded survey of Pratas Shoal, Captain Carrel took an active part in the operations,
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