Mrs, W. Slade Bungay and family left for Dairen on Friday Inst Mr, Rodney Gilbert left for Shuntien, a Peking on Wednesday on the C.N.S, Mr, A. C. Hyde Lay has returned China from England and is ing at the Astor House, Mr. E. Oxley Cumming and Mr. R. G, Macdonald left on Thursday for a short holiday in Japan, Gex, Chang Chen-wu, a divisional commander in the Nationalist Army, left for Nanking on Sunday to meet Gen. Chiang Kai-shek.
Mr, Soong Tsze-yung, Minister of] Finanes in the Nationalist Government and Mrs, Sun Yat-sen's young-brother, has been ordered to Feturn to Hankow, Miss Venie Barrett, daughter of] the Commissioner of' Police, has Just been operated on for append icitis. She is making satisfactory progress towards a complete recovery.
Mu, A. G. N. Ogden, Britisa Consul at Kiukiang, arrived in Shanghai
1 to Tientsin in king a fortnight's order to bring back Mrs, Ogden, who hasbeen there since the trouble began on January 7.
Da, Manley ©. Hudson, Hemis Professor of International Lay Harvard University, is in Shangh Mr, H. J, Brett, H, M, Commercial Seoretary, has left' Shanghai for Hongkong and expects to be absent about a fortnight.
Mr, Chang Ching-kiang, man of the Nanking "Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang, has returned to Shanghai.
Mr, T. W. Mitchell, of the American Presbyterian Mission, who Fast month brought his family to Shanghai, has returned to Siangtan, Honan, honour of the birthday of the Prince-Consort of the Netherlands all men-of-war in the river were dressed on Tuesday flying masthead with the Dutch ensign at the Tue engagement is announced between the "Rev. G. T. Shetliffe, Diocesan Chaplain, Singapore, and [Cecily Marion, elder daughter of the Rev. H. ©, and Mrs, Finch, Abbots Langley Vicarage," Herts, cate, Colonial Secretary, Malay States.
Anstmat Yang Shu-chuang, come mander-in-chief of the Nationalist Fleet, and Mr. Quo Taichi, Come missioner of Foreign Affairs, left on Monday for Nanking to confer with Gen, Chiang Kai-shek, Mr. G, McIntosh, of the Presbyterian Mission Press, is at present] down with pneumonia, and patient at the Victoria Nursing! Home. His brethren of the Craft and many others of a wide circle friends will be glad to hear he is making satisfactory progress, ming, former Tutuh and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Canton, who was driven. from Canton} two years ago by Gen. Chiang Kai-alick, has gone to Nanking, but he has issued a statement to the effect that he has retired from public life and will not meddle with polities.
Mu, Yue Fel-pang, chairman of the Kiangsi Financial Bureau and former Quartermaster-Gen'ral of! the Nationalist Armies, has been appointed Superintendent of Customs} for Shanghai in succession to Mr. Shen Vu. Mr. Yue, who is a nati of Ningpo, has been instructed by] Mr. Soong Taze-yung, the Nation: alist Minister of Finance, to rai $350,000 within the next five days for administrative requirements, Carrain W, G. C. Maxwell, CING is being relieved "in command of HIS. Ceres in the Mediterranean Fleet by Captain A, J. London, who recently took the Castor on a {roap+ ing cruise to China and back, Mr. C, R, Burkill, Shanghai's youthful veteran horseman, has returned from Home leave, looking fit as to induce the belief that even yet he will be credited with two of three more Champions suc+
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