Unseltled conditions in the Honge Kew and Yanglzepoo districts continue to adversely affect the First. and Second Class making Use of the hospital and it is to be anticipated there will be tittle Improvement. in this respect until conditions return to normal, The following changes in the Board of Governors took place during the year, Mr. L, Scheyven, Counsellor fof the Belgian Embassy, has acted for the Consul-General for Belgium during the latter's absence on leave. Mr. A.C. Cornish, upon his departure from Shanghai, was succeeded by Mr. J, W. Carney. The thanks of the Governors for donations received uring the year were extended to the Associated "Foreign Charities Shanghai, the Red Cross Society for China, the British Fund for Relief in China' and to other kindly donors. The Governors also placed on record their thanks and appreciation for the services donated "by the Nursing Staff, Sisters. of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary and gratefully acknowledged the free optical and dental treatments. given to Indigent patients by Drs. C. P, Rakusen and Mr. Klatehko respectively, and. the free treatments in Ear, Nose and Throat Diseases given by Dr, Gizella The net loss of $79,951.75 was rived at after setting up a reserve of $2,500 against Bad and Doubtful Debts and writing off $10,021.27 as depreciate tion on Linen, furniture, plant, fit= Lings ete. "No provision for deprecia+ tion on bull Briton Assaulted by Armed Men Apr. 13 Unprovoked by any action on his part, Me RT. A. Tucker an ployee of Messrs, "Andersen, Moyer Con Lid, was cowardly assaulted by five Chinese, all of them brandish ing. pistols, outside the "Fore YAM.C.A. shortly after 8 o'clock list night, Also assaulted when he ran to Mr, Tucker's rescue was a Chinese police constable. The five men responsible for the attack drove away cit before party of police don the scene.
Me, Tucker, who had just walked from the Racecourse side of ug Well Road to the YMCA, the resides, was seized by Chinese "as soon the kerb. This pistol, hit the Briton the chest
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