on August 22 following an intestinal operation, He had been in the Soviet capital almost continuously since leaving Peking, as A.P. correspondent, That the death came without jarly physical warning is shown by the fact that letters received from him only this week revealed him ina high state of spirits, Both Mr. Glenn Babb, Associated Press correspondent here, and Mr. Tim-Perley of Reuters received letters which indicated that although life was fairly dull in Russia, Mr, Whifill maintained his happy dis He was expecting his wife to join him from London, where she had been holidaying although he had anticipated she would not enjoy the restricted and gloomy life in Moscow as a contrast to the happy times of Peking.
Mrs. Whiffen, besides being a charming hostess, is an necomplished pinnist and it will be remembered that when Mr, and Mrs, Whiffen left Peking last year they were given signal testimony coal popularity by the number and spontaneity of farewell parties, Deceased's Varied Career mis made in the ied. here by the United Press as to funeral arrangements ut it is understood that the late iten's fellow newspapermen rrange the obsequies on behalf friends and family.
Mr. Whiffen has had an interesting and varied career and his recent assignment to Moscow is not the first time he has ''covered" Russia "for the When he assumed his new post after 1 Peking, he completed a circling the globe in the service of the ince he began life asa reporter the "Chicago American" in 1902 ho has had thrilling experiences {in the performance of his work.
Peking was included on two occasions in his journeyings about the world. He joined the Associated Press' and was in the Chicago Bu-eau from 1904 to 1909. His first foreign assignment was at Mexico City during the trouble-some days }of the Diaz-Medero regimes when he held office as chief of the Mexico City bureau for five years until 1914. Then followed a round of important assignments in which ho travelled in Italy, Switzerland, France and other European countries. Ho was named chief of the Petrograd bureau of the A.P. in 1914 and remained there for three years, when he wns ordered to Poking, arriving January, 1918. He was Chevalier of the Order of St. George awarded in 1916 by the former Russian government.
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