nerorr to the "Shunpao" states that Mr. J. Michelet, Norwegian Minister, and Mme. Miche-let have left Peking on home leave.
'Ma, Chang Siao-ling, a well-known merchant, has been' appointed a member of the Provisonal Municipal Commission of the French Concession.
Cot, W. F. L, Gordon, Commandant of the' Shanghai' Volunteer Corps, left for Hongkong on Tuesday by the Empress of Canada for a brief holiday.
Mx, Warren 8. Dyer, of Shanghai, has been elected a' Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, Mr, W. Wakeford Cox, manager of the South British Insurance Ca. La, left on Wednesday on a short business visit to the North, and will be away fov about a fortnight.
Carta John C. Daily, senior captain of the A. P. Os fleet, and formerly in command of that com pany's motor vessel, Fu-Kwang, has returned to Shanghai on the Blue Funnel str, Hector, from Home leave, Ma, H. B. Longfellow, long connected with the Robert Dollar Company, has been appointed Passenger Agent of the Dollar Steamship Line and the Ameriem Mail Line, in charge of their local passenger department, Me. T. V. Soong, Minister. of Finance, left for Nanking on Wednesday, and is expected to return in a few days. His Ministry is establishing a Shanghai office in the building of the Central Bank of China on the Bund, Gex. Hsu Tsung-chih, former Commander-in-Chief of the Cantonese Armies, and Mr. Chang Chi, former Speaker of the Senate, left on Saturday by the N. ¥. K. 8.
iyo Mara for America and Europe. Both these gentlemen are members of the Central Executive Committee of the Kuomintang.
Mu, H. B. Roe, of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank, who has for some considerable time served on the Municipal Council, on Wednesday gave notice of his resignation. This due to the fact that he is leaving for Home on leave at the and of this month, Mu, Frederick Ratzenberger, who came to Shanghai two years ago in the interests of the General Insurance Ca, of Trieste and Venice, the largest of all the Middle-European underwriting concerns, and in existence since 1831, left for Europe on the Lloyd-Triestino M. V, Rome on Saturday. He was accompanied by Mrs, Ratzenberger.
Mr. assistant House, manager of the Philippines Chapter of the American Red Cross, is in Shanghai, and at the Astor House, for a brief stay before returning to Manila, Mr. House has just completed a tour of inspection in North China with special reference to famine conditions in Shantung where the American Red Cross and the Japanese Red Cross thave been asked for assistance, Nacotar, retiring Consul General for France, left Shanghai for France on Saturday at noon {aboard the Taiyo Maru. So many friends, and those delegated to bid him farewell, were gathered at the wharf that his departure assumed an official aspect. He proposes to spend no time in America, but to directly to Paris where he will take up his new post as Sub-Director of Far Eastern Affairs.
Avoano Wednesday's train arriv" ing from Nanking were Gon, Ho Ying-ching, commander of the Baste ern Route Armies; Gen, Li Taunge Jen, commander of the 7th Routa Armies, and Admiral Yang Shue of the
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