Mas, R, W. Davis and children left Shanghai for Weihaiwei by tthe str, Kingsing on Monday.
Maurice Roy, manager of Credit Foncier d'Extreme Orient in Peking has been transferred to] Shanghai Ma, H. F. Payne, of the Ame iean Bank Note Ca. of Peking, spent the week-end in Shanghai, Lrrut. Commdr. I. B. Franks, who will be well remembered for his cricket and amateur runing is coming back to the China Station. He has been appointed to the Haw-Kins as Signal Officer.
Me. Aldrich Barton, of the power Engineering Department of Messrs. Anderson, Meyer & Ca., Lé., Shanghai on Monday for an extended business trip to Mukden and Harbin.
Mr. Cornell S, Franklin, Teaves to-day for an extended visit to America. Mr. Franklin will understood that Lieut. Faure, commanding H.MS. Robin at Canton, has been relieved and called by the str, Kashgar for Home, be much missed on the polo field where he has been playing a splendid game.
Tae forthcoming wedding is anmounced of Mr. Benjamin C. Randall, Jr. of No. 1 Prospect Place, Bonham Road, Hongkong, to Miss Ada Mabel Lee, of No. 284 Cameron Road, Kowloon. in addition duties during the absence on leave of Captain H. F. Bloxham.
Tue fullest man in the Hongkong. Police Force is a new recruit, Mr. H.C. Baker, who arrived a few days ago. He is the son of " for-jer Hongkong Inspector of Police, in 29 years of age and six feet five inches in height.
Grwerat P, A. Sutton, military adviser to Chang Tso-lin, and director of the Mukden arsenal is now at Tsingtao, After a brief stay there he will go to Chefoo to confer with Tupan Chang Chung-chang regarding the erection of ar. arsenal in Tsinanfu.
Tue well-known athlete, Mr. Eric Liddell, who arrived in. Chini last month, addressed the Sunday School at Rocky Point, Peitaiho, lust Sunday morning. He has been aggpinted chairman of a committee of entertainment for the annual picnic of the same Sunday School, which is announced for August 26, Dr. Wang Chung-hui, the well-Known Chinese jurist, who is at. Present the Chinese member of the International Court of Justice at The Hague, has telegraphed Shanghai that he expects to leave for Home about the middle of next month t" take his place ins Chaieman of the Law Reform Commission.
Tur new U.S. Consul-General in Hongkong, Mr. Roger Culver 'Trodwell, who arrived last week. has had a distinguished career. Born in Brooklyn, N.y, he was educated at Yale, and at' Grenoble, France. He has seen service in Yokohama, London, Bristol,' Amsterdam, Leghorn, Naples, Petrograd und elec where. "He was attached to the American Commission attending the Versailles Feace Conference.
Mu. C. B. Chamberlain, Americar. Vice-Consul, is leaving Tientsin this week for Swatow, where ko will have charge of the Consulate Mr. Chamberlain arrived in China in 1920, and was assigned to the Legation at Peking as student interpreter. Last year he was stationed at Canton, and arrived in Tientsin in April last, He is ths youngest official to have charge of Consulate, Mu. Wee Kay-siang, whose death took place recently, was born in Singapore in 1858," and_ therefore was one of the old. Straits-born Chinese. He started in business early in life, joining the firm of Messrs, Brinkman Ca. with whom he had been for the last 52 yours Well-known in the commercial Circles of Singapore, he was one of the founders of the local Chinese bank ud had given Generous donations towards the King Edward Medical School, and other educational undertaking:
Dr. John R, Mott, General Secretary of the National Council of the ¥. M. C. A. of the United States, will be visiting China again next spring. His last visit was at the meeting of the World's Christian Student Federation, held in Tsinghua in the spring of 19: Last May Dr. Mott celebrated his: 60 birthday, at which age secretary "dou -of the ¥. BIN. C. A. are expected to retire on pension; but the National Council decided that Dr. Mott's services are indispensable and do-clined to allow him to retire.
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