Ca., formerly of Hongkong and now transferred to Shanghai; Me. A. 7. P. Farquharson of the P. & O. Banking Corp., transferred from Hongkong to Shanghai, Dr. Self, the German Ambassador, has been elected President of, the' Asiatic Society of Japan in succession to Sir Charles Eliot, the British Ambassador. Sir Harold Parlett and Dr. S. H. Wainrigh continue as vice-presidents. Other! officers are Mr. W. J. Davis, cot Mr. Eugene recording secretary; Mi. N. K. Roscoe, treasurer; Prof. C.D." Hyde, librarian; Mr. "Frank. H. Hedges, editor. The members of the Council are Dr. M. Anezaki Dr. B.C. Armstrong, Dr. N. Munro, Dr. J. Sakurai, Prof. J. T. Swift, Mr. G. B. Sansom, Mr. J. B. Snellen, Colonel Renondeay, and. Mr. A. Rose-Innes, Tue many local admirers of the wood prints made by Miss Blizabeth Keith will be glad to know that her exhibits in London have been very successful, #0 much £0 that she has sent on to Shanghai for the unsold prints left behind.
We regret to record the death at the Presbyterian Home, New-burgh, U.S.A., on October 18, of Robert Grierson, aged 64, formerly of China Inland' Mission, eldest. son of the late James Grierson, Mount Florida.
Mr. IL, V. Millington, formerly the "sta of the Shanj and later of the "Far Eastern Times," is leaving Tientsin for Kobe, having accepted an_appointment on the editorial star of the "Japan Chronicle."
AMonG those who arrived here from Nanking on Tuesday were Mes. Lu Hsiang-ting, wife of the now Commander-in-Chief (Tupan)' of the Chekiang Forces; Mr.
Shen, managing director of the Shanghai-Nanking and Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railways; and Gen. Ting Chin, former Command er of the Woosung Forts.
Mr, P.M. Lincba who was formerly a legal practitioner her and has written several books under the name of "Paul Myron," is a visitor in Shanghai while on his way to Peking. He has just come from Canton and expresses the opinion that Canton is not Bolshevist_ and never can be. His impression is that long before the Chinese are communized the will be tribalized, and lo the Canton Government is making such commercial, profit as it can out of Russia,
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