Monday, July 20, a well-known figure {n the social life of Peiping has passed from the scene, Mr, Jowett who was 05 years of age first came out to China in the middle of the nineties as the representative of a large Yorkshire woollen frm, But forsaking business for mis sion' work he joined the Wesloyai Methodist Society in Hankow, "Dut Ing his first home leave he entered a Wesleyan theological college and. was eventually ordained as minister. He relumed to China and took up work in the then newly opened and turbulent province of Hunan, where remained until March 1917, when he Went home to the war with the Chinese Labour Corps. During his service in France he rose to be Sia Captain and was" mentioned in return to China in by the Colonial Omice as Junior Dis tier Omleer in Welhalwel, and shortly after became Senior District OMee When that colony was about to be handed over to China, Mr. Hardy offered a government appointment in the South Seas, but preterr= pany as, their Poking representative, until his retirement in 1038, when he made Peiping his permanent home, Mr. Jowett had a very good knowledge of both the wrliten -and spoken language, and had a very large number of. friends in Chinese official and literary circles. He took 8 specially Keen interest in the political and social questions modern China, and was to be met with at all, important social and political functions of the old capital, to which he was greatly attached, ignor Alfonso Gasco Kobe, July 20.
Signor Alfonso Gasco, italian Consul-General here, died of heart failure at his home yesterday after-ignor Gasco, who has spent for years in this "country, was well known for his deep knowledge of the "Japanese classics, and once served as a lecturer at the Kyoto Imperial University, Emperor Hirohito has conferred the Third Class Order of the Sicred feasure upon Signor Gasco for his contributions towards the promotion of, Italo-Japanese_ friendship, cite faneral wit take lace of the ott ly 22 julie church here on July 22——
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