British Consul Goes on Leave, American Returns Faos em Own Connesronoent Harbin, Oct. 2.
'Mr. H. Phillips, the British Consul, goes on home leave this: month. His place is to be taken by Mr. H. Porter at present acting Consul' General at Hankow, who was in Harbin a couple of years ago. It is expected that before Jong the Consulate here will be raised to a Consulate-General, seeing that both Japan and Soviet Russia have Consul-Generals. functioning here. It is also hoped that the re-building of the British Consulate will be started next spring and that an imposing edifice worthy of British traditions will be erected on the fine site that! was given by the Railway some few, years ago along Horwath Prospect, ext to the Russo-Asiatic Bank and in the administrative centre of the town, Mr. Hansen, the American Consul, who has been on home leave, is expected to return to his post this month, and Mr. Samuel Sokobin, who has been acting in hhis stead, will then return to his post at Mukden, 'The Russian Students Society, which is doing a lot of good in helping indigent students, has recently received $1000 from General Chang Buch-liang, the Marshal' ded September last, ried 2,267,000 passengers and 230 million ponds of freight, the latter being 40 million ponds more than in the previous year. The gross earnings of the railway were 43 million roubles and the nett earnings 16,800,000 roubles, which is a record.
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