Mr. Edwin S, Cunningham, U.S. Consul-General, and Mrs. Cunningham will sail for America on home leave early in October, it was an-nouriced on September 3. They lan to leave on the President Mz-
Kinley which sails from Shanghai on October 10, and they will not return until the early part of next year. The date of return has nat been fixed definitely as yet.
The proposed voyage will be the first vacation which the American Consul-General will have had during the past three years as the last was in June, 1927. During the intervening time he has -not beea outside of Shanghai except on bus'- ness.
1¢ official who will take over Mr, Cunningham's duties during als absence has not been announced yer as he is still waiting for a message from Washington, D.
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