Distinguished American's Visit Mr. and Mrs. Hermit Roosevelt of New York are staying at the Astor House, making a brief visit in Shanghai after an extensive tour of northern China. Mr. Roosevelt, the son of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, distinguished himself service during the Great War first as an officer in the British Army, when he served with the Seaforth Highlanders and the Motor Machine Guns in Mesopotamia, and then in the U. S. Army. He was awarded the British Military Cross and the Montenegrin War Cross. Like his versatile father, Mr. Roosevelt has found time in an active business life for writing, and has published "War in the Garden of Eden," "The Happy Hunting Grounds," and "Quentin Roosevelt, a Sketch with As President of the Roosevelt Steamship Company and Vice-President of the Kerr Steamship Company, Inc. operating a number of steamers in the Pacific trade, Mr. Roosevelt is in the Far East looking over the situation and will return to America vid Suez.
Mrs. Roosevelt is the daughter of the Hon. J. E. Willard, who held many public offices in the state of Virginia, served in the Cuban -War, and represented the United States as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Spain from 1913 to 21. Mr Willard recently passed through Shanghai, having travelled with the Roosevelts for part of the trip.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.