Well-known Journalist in Far East: A Fine Career Tokyo, Jan. 16.
Mr, James Russell Kennedy, newspaper correspondent, who recently has been representing the London "Daily Telegraph" and the Chicago "Daily News," died from heart-failure this morning, at the age of sixty-six.
Mr, Kennedy, who was a well-known friend of the older seneration of journalists in London, New York and the Far East, was born at Bray, County Wicklow, in 1861. He was educated at Glenalmond, and Trinity College, Dublin. Eager {or adventure, he joined the Brith Army dnd fought in the Egyptian nephew campaign of 1882-4, being decorated with the Egypt Medal, 1884, with two clasps. Later he became a war correspondent and editor, eventually in 1899, joining the London office the Associated Press of America, in which he held the posts of an editor and London correspondent. Transferred to the New York office of the Associated Press, he was successively Night Manager and General Superintendent. In 1907, he arrived in Tokyo to take charge of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Associated Press of America, a responsible position which he held with great success until early in 1914, when, to meet the rapid growth in the demand for world news in Japan, he organized the Kokusai Tsushinsha, or Internation al News Agency of Japan, in which he held the position of foreign rector and general manager. Subsequently he was appointed Reuters' correspondent in Japan. He resigned from the Kokusai Tsushinsha and Reuters in October, 1923, 'Mr. Kennedy married Miss Emily' Campbell, of Palatka, Florida, wie survives him. The death of their only son in 1919, at the age of 21, was a very great shock to them. This and their terrible experiences in the Tokyo earthquake of Septem. ber, 1923, when their residence with its very valuable collection of Japanese curious was totally destroyed, undoubtedly left their mark—Reater.
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