The Lester Chinese Hospital in their statistics fo" the month of August released yesterday revealed that further widening interest in the work of the Hospital is reflected in the additional contributions io the Bed Endowment Fund which has been swelled by the receipt of $33,000 from three donors.
Gifts to the Bed Endowment Fund are devoted towards securing a minimum proportion of free inpatient treatment for the destitute sick. Since the last report, generous subscriptions to the general funds, too, have come in from Chinese sources, until today the total donations amounted to official of the company star yester-Qusrtioned, about, the dispute, [day afternoon that it had been settled land that normal services would be resumed this morning About 28 vehicles were put into operation [shortly after 2 pin. yesterday. The Jemployees, he added, had presented [no demands whatever.
From information gathered from various sources yesterday, it was learned that the Russian policeman was passing at the corner of Kiangse Road and Avenue Edward VII at 6.36 am. when he saw that the conductor?nd the passenger were quarrelling out the fare. The quarrel resulted in a fight and the policeman intervened and separated the two men.
e Passenger went his way and the policeman continued on his beat when he heard the conductor abuse him in Chinese. The sian proba tionary sergeant then boarded the trolley bus to take down thẹ number of the conductor in order T(t him to the Tramway Ca. authorities when he was assaulted by the eon-ductor, who was aided by another conductor and a hawker. At the sama time, another Chinese started inciting the crowd, which had gathered on the spot, to disarm the policeman.
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