Foundation in Peking will join the [Empress of Japan in Yokohama on his way to the United States.
Mu. C. Harpur, Commissioner of Public Works, SMC. will leave Shanghai in the s. Empress of Japan to-morrow morning for Japan, where:
will spend a short leave.
Mr. Tang Vu-jen, Chief Secretary, fo the Central Polilieal Council, and Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, arrived from Nanking on Thursday and celebrated the anniversary of his nicther's birthday.
Ins. D. M. Sinclair, of the Canadian Pacific "Steamships, Ltd., left Monday with Mrs. Sinclair in the Empress of Japan on furlough in Canada_after which they will return to the Far East and Mr. Sinclair will lake over his new post in Tokyo as passenger agent there.
Mu. Tang Lean; Waichiaopu Special Publicity Office in Shanghat and Editor of "The People' Tribune." returned here in. the Em: ress of Japan on Sunday tsom Hongkong. Mr. Tang hag been in the British colony for about a fortnight fon business and holiday.
Mr. Stirling Fessenden, Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Council, left by the s. Empress of Japan for the United States on Monday. After visiting relatives and friends in America, Mr. Fessenden hopes to visit Europe. He will return to Shanghai in March next.
Jusce A. G. Mossop, who left Shanghai in the s. Paowo on Wednesday last is going to Hankow. where he will hear a criminal case. During his absence his place was taken on Thursday in HM. Supreme Court here by Mr. 1. T. Morris, who sat as assistant judge, it is Eelieves, for the frst.
Thursday evening found Rotarian fu a merry meed. when the Shanghat Rotary Club held its. weekly reunion at the French Club. in. the form of a "Stag" party, to which members invited thole gusty. In Place of the usual tifin meeting, an evening replete with song and story enjoyed by the many rotarians and others who were present.
Lr. Commissioner A. J. Benwell of the Salvation Army in China, who arrived here from the north on Friday night, left here in the Empress of Japan for London on Monday. He is to attend the High snd Council of the Army convened for /August 27 for the purpose of electing. fa successor to General Higgins who has announced his intention to retire jin September on account of ill-health, Tue degree of Doctor of Medicine was conferred upon Mr. Wu Chang-eng. eldest son of Dr. and Mrs. Wu Lien-teh, of the graduation exercises of the University of Rochester, N.Y. fon June 1%. Two years previously young Dr. Wu had already obtained his TR. in Public Heelth at. the University of Yale. Dr. Wu, Jr, is proceeding to Geneva next month to Study international vital statistics at the Health Section of the League of Nations, and later on undertake postgraduate work under Professors Greenwood and Topley at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Passencens left in the Empress of Japan on Monday for Japan include Mr. P, Boolsen, Chairman of the German Chamber of Corhmerce here and Jmanager of the Hamburg Amerika Line, accompanied by Bfrs. Boolsen: Mr. H.W. Trick, assistant manager of the Chase Bank here, accompanied by Mrs. Trick; Mr. C. Harpur, Deput Commissioner of the PWD, 9 Jcompanied by Mrs. Harpur; Mr. F. Hoenke of the Union Brewery, and {Mrs. "Hoenke; Mr. A. Hogarth, ae countant of ithe LEI; iMr.
Hicks of Messrs. Arts and Craf Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Leckie, Dr. B. L. Marsh, Mr. C.D. Pearson. of the Shanghai Waterworks; and Mr. U. M. Tavella, general manager of the by Mrs. Tavella. a Hallan Bank for Ching, accompanied News of the transfer of Mr. Paul /R. Josselyn, Consul at the Shanghai American Consulate, to the post of [Consul-General at Hankow was received from the State Depariment at Washington by Mr. Edwin S, Cunningham on Thursday. Mr. Josselyn is at present on holiday with his wife and amily at Tsinglao, However, it was stated at the Consulate that he will assume his duties upon the arrival of Mr. Minnett Bain Davis who has been Jassigned to the Shanghai Consulate, jand will come from his present post Jin Stockholm, Sweden, to assume his duties here in September.
Dr. George B. Cressey, chairman of the Departments of Geology ant Geography at Syracuse University, N.¥,, who arrived in China recent? 1 make a survey of the geographic cenéitions of various parts of the country for his own book, has been conimissioned by the National Agricultural Research Bureau of the Ministry of Industries. Dr. Cressey's commission will, at the request of the National Goverment at Nanking, include a geographic survey of the" physical characteristics of Chekfang and Kiangst. He hopes to have both completed by October when the will return to America to resume his duties at the University.
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