The Archive · 1940

By Orphanage

Rest This Afternoon — Ceremony to Be Held at

Appeal Made by Russian Central Funeral Home Resident; Income Tax to All Police flags on the stations Better Conditions will be at half mast today as a token The coming winter will be one el of respect for the late C.P.C. 3349 the hardest, so far as benevolent of the Shanghai Municipal Police, societies are concerned. Already an who succumbed to his wound at the appeal has been made on behalf of Police Hospital on Wednesday. the Jewish refugees here who, it is morning, notwithstanding all the said, face starvation unless more efforts taken to save his lif The encoffining service for the late funds are found. Now comes an appeal from a Russian resident in police constable will take place at {Shanghai for help to the St. Olga's the Central Funeral Home at 34 Orphanage, an institution which Mapai Road at 2.15 p.m. houses and feeds ninety persons, t'y The deceased, it will be recalled of them girls. ranging from two to was wounded in the abdomen by an fourteen years. armed robber in Chungking Roa?

The high cost of living, rising on Monday afternoon when he steadily, makes it almost impossible attempted to arrest four armed to support the orphanage on the sum desperadoes as they crossed Avenue that is, allotted them. The sum—Foch into Chungking Road. The $3,500 a month to be exact—is far C.P.C. opened fire at the criminals from sufficient to feed, house and who in their turn opened fire an^ clothe the inmates of the institute, wounded their pursuer in the being only a little over a dollar per abdomen. One of the robbers was person per day. shot. dead by C.P.C. 244 of the Russian residents, through the me French Police less than a minute dium of a local Russian daily, appeal later, The gun-battle caused another to Russians here to helo as much as victim, a Chinese woman pedestrian it is possible by sending money, sustaining minor injury to her right clothing, food, in fact everything that leg. may be utilized to good effect by The wounded C.P.C. was immedi-the orphanage. ately taken to the Police Hospital in With the announcement, however.

Ward Road where for thirty hours that Russians will pay income tax he was battling with death. and that this money will be used to better the conditions of the Russian

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