Mr, €. H. Shields who succeeds Mr. Tollefsen in seniority has been appointed Postal Commissioner Shanghai to fil the vacancy left by Mr, Tollefsen. The former joined the service a few months after Mr. Tollefsen, in 1897, and since then has served in numerous cities of Ching, notably in Kaifeng, Peking, Canton, Hankow and more recently taining order cally and said tha! he would take drastic measures to dea!
vith Kuomirtang propagandistg who were now more active than eve™ In. conclusion, he rewarded the! officers with sail sums of money and expressed the hope that he would, In the near future, be able to reward them more amply. This could not, however; be done at present owing to lack of funds, he said. to allow the name of the writer to be made public, and to ensure] ancrymity suppressed the phote._ graph which we now publish Captain Kent was also keenly interested in all phases of wireless telegraphy. He never tired of advocating the equipment of covery ocean going ship with a wireless set in order -that there would be no time at which their messages should Lut it was not until the fignre- of listed Messrs. Donovan, Summers Tis.
73,000 was reached that tho|and Hyland who have' left the not be answered, but he did much promote the installation of sets vessels.
Mrs. Kent will follow her husband in the next few weeks and it is not expected that they will retarn to Ching, service in years past. As is customary in this branch of public work Mr, Tollefsen gathered his experience in various parts of China. He has served in Tsiranfu, Foochow, Peking, Mukden and Nanking besides Shanghai. The term just! completed was his second in Shanghai as in 1913 during the absence in Natking. He also spent two years on the Tibetan border and Guring the period of the constraction of the present Shanghai post office had much to do with the efficient administrative organization fof the new building. Before his arrival here as. senior postal commissioner, Mr. Shields. acted, commissioner in Nanking for 10 months.
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