From the beginning of 1908 till February 1900 Mr. Petersen acted as advisor and chief foreign superinten-head-office of the Imperial Administration at of Mr. F. N. Dres-ing during the latter's absence at the Lisbon Telegraph Conference, After that he was sent for a few months to Dairen to take over from the Japanese the telegraph lines in Sheng-King province, He then returned to Peiping as superintendent until he went home on six months' home leave. On his return to China he became superintendent, of the Tientsin office which post he held from April 1910 (0 June 1014, During this period he again performed many extensive tours of inspection. for an extensive walking tour in the very year be used 10.80
its a. great Teader and had one of the best private Iibtaries in Peiping, his collection of works on. Ching and on the German Ho"Gocuse being. partielariy com-Interest in Club life, having acted He took a keen and continuous
as librarian and sat on the Committee faimost without interruption for the Fast fifteen years, and was its chair~ man in 1092, His departure will leave {av great blank in Club life, and he will be missed by the whole foreign community of Peiping.
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