Miss Frances Gray (as the deceased Indy then was) came to China in 1910 for the Woman' Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and became a teacher and later prineipal of the Mary Porter Gamewell School for Girls in Peking. Because of her unusual ghility and strength of character she wielded a great influence with the faculty and student body of that institution, She was married in April, 1923, to Mr. L. 'N. Hayes, of the' National Committee of the Y.M.CA, and ince that time had been resident of Shanghai, where she had soon a large circle of friends.
Mrs. Hayes was born in Madison, New Jersey, on September 5, 1885. She was a missionary of the third generation, her father having been in medical work in the United Provinces of India. Her grandfather, the Rev. John Henry Budden, was' an early missionary of the Church Missionary Society, who went to India from England about 1845. She graduated from Well-wesley, College in 1910 having stitute, Herkimer, New York. She eaves to mourn her loss husband and a son, Francis Newton, only a few days old, a brother, Dr. J. H. Gray, of Shanghai, in addition to 'a mother and two sisters and two brothers resident in Am The taking away of Mrs. Hayes is keenly felt by her large circle of friends in North and Central China, who consider that not only the friends but the causes for which she has worked have sustained a great loss in her untimely death, BIN. de Wichfeld, Counsellor at the Danish Legation," Tokio, was due in Peking on Tuesday. After having spent three years in Toki AM. de Wichfeld is on his mark, but is returning in order to confer with chief, M. Henri the accredited Mi return to-Denmark via the United States and en-route visit his uncle, M. Brun, the eminent Danish states: man who has represented his country for so many years in Washing-
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