On October 26, Mr. James B, Davies of Detroit was appointed Clerk of the Court and is expected to arrive io Shanghai shortly.
Visit to China of Secretary of War, J, M, Dickinaon.—The Honourable 4). toraing from a tour of the Pilipino Dickinson, Secretary of War, re-
to the United States by way of Siberis, accompanied by Mrs. Dickinson and by Colonel Clarence Edwards, Chief of the Insular Bureau of the Department of War, and Mrs. Edwards and Mr. and Mra, Lars Andersen, formerly of the Diplomatic Service, spent September and carly October in China, stopping fow days at Hongkong, Shanghai a Makden and remaining about two weeks in Peking, where they were entertained by our Minister to China, Hoo. W. J. Calhoun, who has for many years been an intimate friend of Mr. Dickinson.
While in Shanghai Mr. Dickinson and party were entertained at " garden reception at the home of Consul General Wild very good and we are deeply gratified that one s0 high in the counsels of President Taft should have shows so xeouine an in the welfare of Ameri American enterprises in (hi of American Burin of the American Trade Com-their Indies making party of some forty-the Chambers of Commerce of eizbt Pacific Coast cities and Honolola) was an event of far-reaching significance. 'They arrived on September 14, on the atr, Korea in Shanghsi and dissolved as party in Canton on October 24, The first week of this six weeks' itinerary was devoted to Shanghsi, including a trip by house boat to Hangchow. A reception was given in the Palace Hotel by the American commanity on the evening of the day of arrival. The party came on the invitation of the Chinese ('hampers of Commerce of Shanghai, Hankow, Tientein, Canton acd other cities, and a programme for each day had been carefally arranged in advance by Chinece basines men and officials, who availed themselves of suggestions made by our
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.