The many friends of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Murray will be grieved to know that Mr. Murray passed away following a heart attack at Bearsden, Glasgow, on May 16, 1939. Mr. Murray was for several years a marine engineer in the China Navigation Company and retired to Scotland in 1933. This sad news has been received by Mr. H. R. Dobson of the Public Health Department of the Shanghai Municipal Council Bank of Albert Canal Breaks in Many Places Brussels, June 27.
Ten people are believed to have been killed when the banks of the Albert Canal broke in a number of places, near Hasselt, The water poured through the breaches and spread over an area of two miles, Police and other workers are making frantic efforts to save the cattle from the rapidly spreading floodwater.
Considerable damage has been done to houses near the banks of the Canal, which at one point has given way for a length of 500 yards.
The International Water Exhibition now being held at Liege will mark the completion of the major part of the work on the Canal, which, when finished, will allow 2,000-ton vessels to go from Antwerp to Liege—Reuter,
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