'The Rev, F. W, Weaver, the Chaplain, addressed' the meeting follows:— have not very much to add to the Chaplain's Report which is before you except to emphasize my satis faction that there is once more a Missions to Seamen in Shanghai, "You can judge for yourselves the Jhomeliness of the premises and T am happy to report that more men are Jmaking use of the mission each month, From its opening in Novem= ber, 173 men attended, In December there were 192 and in January this year 246, Feb, 172, March 336.
"Many of the Scandinavian seamen Shanghat use the Mission and jelasses in the English language are given to them three mornings a week Jby myself and one of the Danish Sea Jmen conducts classes on the other three. mornings for those who have lonly a small knowledge of our 1anj lunge. These classes are most success {ul and will prove helpful to the men in future.
"1 wish to express my thanks to Jail the members of the Committee who are all busy men and who spare time to come to meetings to consider the business side of the Mission work, I should especially like to_mention ithe work of our Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer who put in 1 tremendous amount of work volun= tary and are always ready to do any thing to help forward the work among Jour seamen, "While there are very tew deep sea ships entering port at this time Jmy Headquarters are most anxious that the Flag shall be kept fying in this port and T feel that though we have not the large numbers attending that we used to have the Mission should be kept open for those sea Jmen who are in port and be ready to welcome our seamen when times are Support Must Be Continued do this It is necessary that the public of Shanghai continue their, support. I am happy to say that, spite-of the many calls which are being made at the present time, the response to the Chairman's appeal has so far been most satisfactory and Thave no hesitation in asking for the continued support of the general public of Shanghai to help the "Fly-Ing Angel" to provide a home for our gallant Merchant Navy to whom we lowe so much."
Bishop Curtis, the President, was then called on, and stated that as he had not been prepared for the mecting he had tile to say, He said, Jnowever, that he considered it a great privilege to be at the meeting, jand emphasized the fact that although at present there are not many merchant "seamen in Shanghai, nevertheless, they are doing great work for the Empire in other parts lof the world, and for this work should receive the hearly thanks of Britons everywhere, He also expressed the Shope that next year the annual meet~ ing would be composed of a more representative gathering of the Shanghai community, that there will be a very large attendance of members on' this oct sion, It' was unanimously decided by the committee to address a letter to Mr, J, Keswick on his departure from Shanghai expressing appreciation of the outstanding services he has rendered to the community, Annual Meeting of AALU.W. Held Shanghai, Apr. 25.
The annual meeting and garden party. of the American. Association University Women was held yesterday at the American Woman's Club, 9 Route Francis Garnier. Miss Grace Yang, who was formerly the vice-president, automatically. became the President' when Mrs. Hips, the President, evacuated last November. Miss Yang looked very attractive in a long Chinese embroidered gown of purple satin as she welcomed members and friends. Tea was served fon the lawn in the picturesque gar den after which Miss Yang opened the meeting and called upon Mrs. J.
McCracken, temporary secretary and treasurer, to read the minutes of the last meeting, and the treasurer's report, Mrs. MeCracken informed members that there were exactly one hundred paid members for the past year but that more than halt that number had already left Shanghai, The Officers were then elected for the year 1941-42. Miss Grace Yang was chosen to be President of the Association for one year, Mrs. N. F. Allman was elected vice-president chairman of the memborshiy committee for two years, Dr. Grace Martin as recording secretary for two years, Mrs. Ralph M. White as corresponding secretary for one year, Miss Anna M. West as treasurer for tone year and Mrs. J. C. Oliver as chairman of the hospitality committee for one year. The President then proposed an amendment regarding membership dues, that there should be an ination feo of $5, local currency, that annual dues' should be raised from $2 to $5 and that those ladies out of the eily, who wished to remain members could do so by subscribing an absent membership fee $2, which was duly passed.
Biss Yang spoke of the $400 scholarship which was awarded to Miss Catherine MacDonald of the American School, who graduated last week and explained that this scholarship was given to Miss MacDonald last November because they had feared she would have to evacuate, The Chinese scholarship of $200 had not yet been awarded. These scholarships had been given by the American Association of University Women annually since 1923 and last year they were raised from $300 to $400 and $150 to $300 respectively. Mise Yang reminded members of the one-day institute that was being given by the Joint Committee of Shanghat Women's Organization, Before closing the meeting Miss Yang thanked members for their cooperation and specially Mts, Oliver, Mrs. Allman and Mrs. MeCracken for their help.
Miss Myra Bancroft Olive, who was to have given a musical programme, was unfortunately unable to appear owing to a slight Indisposition.
Big Loss Drives Man To Suicide "Shanghai, Apr, 22, Worried over a loss. of $25,000, misappropriated, by his employee, Mr, Harry G. Kessel. young German refugee, committed suicide on Sunday evening by jumping from the eleventh floor of Willow Court, at 44 Route de Boissezon, He met instant death.
Tk was learned yesterday that the late Mr. Kessel had reported the misappropriation to Central police station detectives on Saturday, when hho stated that he had given' Poter Zee, his employee, the sum of $25,000 to conduct a business trans action. What the deal was. about remained a mystery. which might be solved only by the arrest of the employee, 'The culprit was told to negotiate' the purchase and was entrusted with "the sum, Nothing has been heard of him since.
Peter Zee, according to the late Mr, Kessel, had been his employes for about six months and had won his trust by being honest and accurate his work. 'The deceased was engaged in export business, "Apparently chagrined "over loss, the deceased decided to on fe' and realized his plan at 8 pin. on Sunday. He had dinner with his wife and then left the apartment, His dead body was found. on the pavement a few minutes tater, In 8 Totter to his wife, the deceased wrote that he was driven to suicide by his business. He was 24 years of age.
'Tue Shanghai Municipal Counelt health report for the week ending midnight' April 26, shows that the total number of deaths from all causes amongst the foreign and Chinese population in the Settlement "was—Foreigners 16 and Chinese 1077. Deaths from noiifable diseases were—Foreigners, measles 2 and tuberculosis, typhoid "fever, para-typhoid fever one each, Chinese, tuberculosis G7; typhoid fever 49; measles influenza' 7; relapsing' fever 5; ber beri 4; dysentery 2; cerebrospinal fever 2 and diphtheria one.
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