Under circumstances probably unique in municipal annals throughout ihe world, the public utility companies of Shdnghai kept vital services running through the midst of three months.of Sino-Japanese conflict. This is the first of a series of reports recording the efficiency of organization and the devotion to duty of the staffs which enabled the wheels of Shanghai's life to run so smoothly.
A stirring legend of devoti; n to duty under higo stress of danger end despite difficulties which at times seemed unsurmountable is unfolded in the history of the Shanghai Waterworks Ca. Ltd, over the period of Sino-Japanese conflict in ihe city neighbourhood. Only the bare outlines are told of the functioning of the most essential of all public services—the safety line of the city's health whose severance would have brought panic, "universal privation and disease in its most dread epidemic form, The sagas of personal heroism, of mending mains burst by shell fire while soldiers fought nearby; of cooly getting on with the routine job with aerial bombs making the night nideous—those individual epics will merely join the sterling traditions of the service,
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