Mu. and Mrs, Julien Barraud have Jjust returned to Shanghai from Home leave.
ATAMAN Simionov left Shanghai fon Monday for Nagasaki, but exacts to return here shortly.
Sin James Jamieson, 1.0.0.0, left by steamer on Wednesday to take up his post as H.M. Consul-General at Mr. N. F. Allman, Consul for Mexico and president of the Rotary Club, left for Tsingtao on Wedno~ day on urgent business, Mu. Tao Kuo-chun, director of the Shanghai Arsenal, left for Nanking lon Saturday to report to Marshal [Sun Chuan-fang.
Mr. C. H. Green, secretary of the Whangpoo Conservancy Board, returned from Home leave on Monday by the P. & O, S. Malwa, Mr, Yang Siao-tang, Superintendent of Customs, and Commissioner of Foreign Affairs for Nanking, left Shanghai on Tuesday Eight efter paying a Sying visit ere.
Gen. Yen Chun-yang, Commission-the native police force, left for Nanking on Wednesday morning, to corfer with Marshal Sun Chuan-fang on questions relating to local defence, Mr. H. Taylor has assumed the managership of the Commercial] Pacific Cable Company, relieving. Mr. W. Pimley who has been assigned to Manila for one year, after which he is retiring.
Ir is widely reported that Dr. V. K, Ting will be appointed to succeed Mr. Chen Tao-yi as Civil Governor lof Kiangsu. This, however, denied by officials at the Directorate jof the Port of Shanghai and Woosung.
Mr. Liu Nan-fung, Chinese Overseas Commissioner for the Datei: East Indies and the Federated Malay States, has arrived in Shanghai and will leave in the course of few days for Singapore.
AMONG the passengers who arrived back in Shanghai from Home by the P. & O. S. Malwa on Monday were Mr. and Mrs. L. P, Ridgway, Mrs, H. M, Kendall and Mr. 8.
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