T. S, Powell, C. Reeves, F, A. Pollock and B, W. Talbot.
'The President, in welcoming the three guests of honour, hoped that they would take back to' their respec tive Committees an expression of Train Hits Truck Shanghai, May 4.
A Chinese named Young Kung-tao, age 28, was killed at 1.30 pam. yesterday afternoon when a Chinese owned truck bearing the licence number 16653 in which he was riding riding was struck by a railway train on the road crossing at Jessfield station. Other occupy fants of the vehicle were uninjured, although the truck was completely wrecked. According to the reports of eye witnesses, the driver did not hear the approaching train and did not sec the locomotive until it was too late to stop the truck.
This specimen, which shows clearly the remarkable features of this strange and rare animal, was presented to the Museum some time ago Mrs, W. H. Harkness and Mr. Quentin Young, who were the first to secure a live baby giant bandi which was successfully taken by Mr Harkness to America and placed on public view in the Brookfeld Zoo in Chicago.
Considerable controversy has taken place of late as to the rarity of the lant panda and whether or not it 15 being threatened with extermination through the excessive and unlimited hunting to which it is being subjected as a result of the big demand for specimens, especially living speclmens, in Europe and Americ.
Altogether, since Mrs. Harkness took her first baby giant panda to America, nine living specimens have been shipped out of China, but a great many more have been killed in. the process of securing these, and there fan be no question that, if this kind fof thing had been allowed {0 go on unchecked, the giant panda would soon have become extinct, for, in spite of anything that may be said to the contrary by those Interested in the exportation of these animals from China, it is a very rare species.
'The' Chinese National Government adopts this view, and recently it was announced. in. "Chungking, "present capital in the West, that any further Hunting and exporting of giant pandas by foreign parties wil not be permitted, except possibly under very special conditions for recognized museums and zoological gardens Europe and America, and even they only one panda for each country.
Thus, whatever may have been the case up to the present, specimens of giant pandas in the collections Musoums, both in China and abroad. will remain far from common, and must be valued accordingly. Shang-hal, therefore, Is to be congratulated fon' having two fine well "mounted specimens of this remarkable animal, for there is also a full grown speci= men in a large case in the Shanghai Museum, shown in its natural surroundings, with a scenic background,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.