General at Hankow, who has just returned from a short home leave and is about to proceed to Hankow for a sojourn ofa fortnight, has brought with him the news that he has not come back to face the mad, whirl of Chinese political affairs in central China again, but that ho is! going to say good-bye to it all and going Home as soon as he can pack his effects and. arrange his personal affairs to retire from the British Consular Service, in which he has spent nearly 38 years." According to his present programme, Me, Gomte will arrive Home a few days, oF perhaps a felv weeks, after his Seth birthday and will retire two! years carlier; therefore, than customary' with consular men' Any-ong who has been through the past two Chinese policemen were killed by armed outlaws, on May 26 of this year, the Council gave the Russian officer's family the maximum grant Tls. 3,000. Such a sum, invested jearefully and to good advantage, would yield an income of about Tls. 3 per week. Carefully husbanded, the lump sum might Jast a modest and careful family for several years—and then what? Even in in-
Jdustries that are dangerous it has been found that it actually pays great corporations, that set aside no funds for sentimental purposes, to provide justly if not liberally for the pensions of the families of men killed on duty. We should like to submit the suggestion that, while} [we cannot expect much " better} than the police are already giving us under any inducement, a pension system for the families' the police of all nationalities would Photo by Chung Hwa Studio,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.