The Archive · 1904

The Departure of Chou

To-day H.E. Chou Fu proceeded to the railway station between long lines of students from the Provincial College, the Normal School, the Military School, and the various other schools inthe city, who were lined up along the road from the gate, and between files of soldiers on either side, under num: rous ornamental arches built across the road. Nearly all the foreigners in the city were at the 1 Station to see him off, and as he appeared at the door of the private csr of Mr. Hildebrand, in which he is travelling, to say a last good-bye to those outside, he was greeted with cheers from the foreigners, led by the German Consul, I fancy there has never been a more universally popular Governor in Shantung than H. E., the quiet, unassuming, yet most progressive Chou'F., whom everybody seems sorry to lose.

New Arrivals, Among the latest additions to the foreign community here are Mr. and Mrs. Decarle, of the Deutse tis che: Bank, who are now settled inside the city, and seems pleased with the prospect of busi who are ery pleasant indeed. Me. Dscarle ness here in Chinan for his bank, he having already been asked by the Govetnor to act for him in the transmission of funds to Naoking and having been appointed by the railway to collect their receipts of ican dollars every fow days and take rge of these accounts.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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