H.M. Consul-General Presents Humane Society Medal; Best Western Traditions Maintained TATING tha Shanghai, June 11. the China incident has provided opportunity for the -display of those qualities which are the foundation of Western influence in the East. Si Herbert Phillips, British Consul-General, presented P. John, an employee of the Asiatic Petroleum Company, with the Royal Humane Society's silver medal for life saving at ar option held in the garden of Mr. T. S. Powell's residence. 1762 Av Joffre, at seven o'clock yesterday evening. total of 183 guests, the majority of whom were employees of the #.P.C,, attended the function, In introducing Sir Herbert Phillips, Mr. Powell, who is general manager in Shanghai for the.P.C., expressed his thanks to Sir Her vt for attending the presentation and also welcomed several out-port employees of the company who were present.
Sir Herbert said in describing the conditions which gave rise to M John's brave act In the summer of 1938 the company's foreign staff at Kiukiang were hot able to live on shore but were artificial respiration for ten minutes Mz. Ellio: t "managed to revive the boy.
Jqvartered in a steel pontoon, Those who know what Kiukiang summer conditions are Who can i what Rife in a pontoon been. The " pontoon ored in a place where the current Kiukiang One "Episode"
For the APE, and for foreign interests in general Kiukiang has been but_one "episode" in the pi tracted China incident, Neverthe was strong, and there was a risk coming down on it ist such risk was loss, it has provided opportunity for the' display of those qualities that are the formation of suitable device some influence in the East bout even so the plosion of a mine might the period of the hostilities the APG. alone has retained the same curred at any time and must have added "very considerably to the anxieties of those living in the pontoon. In order {o provide some leseape from the he the interior [oF the pontoon to build a ge" on the mosquito screening that waged from the shore. TI their discomforts and inconveniences Gid not cause their morale to deter torate is proved by" the occasion now to be recalled. personnel at the port right up to Fecent months. "Their staff have worthily maintained the positions of oldest inhabitants." and with the navy have provided leadership and initiative whenever occasion offered. 'The Kiukiang manager, Mr. Fretwell, has throughout been' an excellent Teader and a worthy successor, to a father whose life was spent in distinguished service with the group john Rescues Chinese The Royal Humane Society's medar for saving Ife has been awarded Mr. Roy Powell John for a brave ict performed at Kiukiang on July 20, 1938. One of the company's Chinese staff slipped overboard from the motor tug Kiangsi, and Mr. John promptly went in after him and succeded in supporting the man until they were both picked up some }200 yards down-stream. At that time the "Yangtze was running in spate, ind those who are not strangers to ithe river know how dangerous it to fall in and how extremely difficult in such conditions it would be to Kiaochiao Beach to Be Re-opened Shanghai, June 12.
Rehabilitation of the sea bathing. beach of the former Greater Shanghai Municipality on the east coast of Kaochiaochen in Pootung for the benefit of Japanese residents of Shanghai is planned by the Japanese-operated Shanghai Steam Navigation Company and officials of the Special Municipality, according to the save a life. Furthermore the cur-
Tent was carrying the two men oown towards @ mine field that had been ald by "the Chinese before they evacuated Kiukiang Bund, member of the Kiukiang staff, Mr. Frank Balderston Iso performed a brave act few days after Mr. John by saving the life of the 16-year old son of one of the company's The boy fell overboard and for minute or (we was submerged. As scon as he come to the surface Mr. Elliott jumped into the managed to put hi.a on After applying The sea beach is four kilometres by land from the Kaochiaochen wharf in the northern district of Pootung and faces the ocean at the mouth of the Yangtze. Several eres of land along the shore will Secommodate thousands of bathers.
Shallow water for a long distance makes swimming perfectly safe, the Paper said 'A 600-passenger boat operated by the Shanghai Steam Navigation Company will carry bathers" from Shanghai to Kaochiaochen in about tone hour and a half, From there they can reach the beach in about 15 minutes.
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