The death occurred last Friday of Mrs. Mollie R. Parker, wife of Mr. Robert H. Parker, managing direc. for of the Shanghai Life Insurance o., Ld, Mrs, Parker, who was 40 Yeats of age, was born in California, but had resided in Shanghai for the past 17 years.
Here she was exceedingly well known and popular throughout a tion will be felt. Her death, how. Very large circle, where the deepest ever, is more than a personal loss it isa distinct loss to the commun: ity. She was of the most charitable disposition, and much of her time was given over to the care of those straitened circumstances. To few beyond the recipients was her abundant charity known, but it is a fact that very wany have had her kindness to thank for relief in time of stress.
Mrs. Parker had been in indiffer—ent health for long, and her death, which took place in Dr. Fearn's Hospital, resulted from pneumonia following upon an operation. She ig survived by her mother, who resides in California, her sister, Mrs. Parker Jones of Shanghai, and a "daughter aged six, As a_ precautionary measure -against the extension of Bolshevist influence, the Government has decided to renew the censorship of letters and telegrams in the "vinees, says the "Peking Daily News"
Ar a_ recent meeting of Boone University students, one of the speakers described the resources of China as being "beyond the dreams of avarice." Unfortunately they are not. Hence most of the present trouble.
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