Cable advice has reached Shanghai of the death at the Vicarage, North Shoebury, Essex, England, March 13, of the Rev. W. Austen, for fifty years prior to the Great Earthquake of 1923 a resi ent of Yokohama, where he held the post of Chaplain to the Missions to Seamen. Soon after the earthquake Mz. Austen, with his wife and daughter (Miss Mabel), pro-Ceeded to England, where shortly after arrival Mr, Austen was appointed by the Bishop of London to the Viearage of North Shoebury. Although 77 years of age, Mr. Austen entered vigorously into the work of the parish, but within 18 months was taken seriously ill, and was for over two years confined to his bed, MMe. Austen, who was in his 81th year, is survived by his wife, three @aughters and two sons (one of the laughters, Mrs. J. E. Gray, residing in Shanghai),'to all of whom the sympathy of' many friends in China and Japan will be extended.
Dr. Tenney had two'sons in China, Jone of whom practised as a doctor until 1924, when he returned to the United States. The other son, Raymond Parker Tenney, was born in 1887 at Tientsin and entered the American Consular Service, and was one time a Mixed Court assessor in Shanghai: later he went to join the Department of State" in Washington, but retired in 1927 order to be able to live with his father eat Polo Alto,
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