Mr, and Mrs, F, H. Forde and their two children, Kenneth and Brian, Toft on Sunday for England in the Empress of Canada, where they tend to settle down.
"pat" Forde first came to China 20 years ago on the staff of the Inter-Rational Bank, with which he spent many years both in Hongkong and Hankow. Twenty-one years ago he Joined the Glen Line agency and on the retirement of Mr. Tibbey succeeded to the local management of the agency; its transfer to Alfred Holt Ca, has resulted in the closing of the Shanghai office and the consequent retirement of the local staff.
As a member of the $.V.C, 9 bowls enthusiast, and recently as chairman of the Shanghai Club, Mr. Forde is Widely known in Shanghai, Mrs Forde, a sister of Mrs. Cyril Porter, has spent most of her life in Shanghai and will be greatly missed by the King's Daughters Society and her many friends. hho arrived te Shang Frida in the s. Mellance, was "Itenard, Ander, director of the Geman Ministry of Railways, the orderliness, and the normal conditions of the country that they thought was in chaos.
course, we have had our hard times. We have come through period of reorganization.—Every country In its first few years of reorganization has trouble. But since two years we have been a happy country. Things are no longer Upset, We have taken back our liberty. We are building up our lat my and our Navy in order to defend ourselves. But Germany will, be the last nation to attack. Hitler has declared that afte Speaking of economics Dr. von weinberg said that Germany would keep up her money value and that She was not going to fall into the pit of deflation.
Another passenger is Dr. Richard Anger, director of the Ministry of Railways since 1919 and soon to retire. He said that Germany had reached her limit in the building of railways, that only short lines would be built from this time on. Motor traffic in Germany is rapidly becom~ jing important and is absorbing much passenger traffic, but the railway is Pall the accepted mode of transferring freight, Air traffic also, he went on, is being rapidly developed.
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