The Rev. W. H. Hudspeth, secre-{ary of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and Mrs, Hudspeth are leaving Shanghai to-day on the Patroclus on a cruise to North China and Japan. They expect to return on August 20.
General Tsai Ting-kai, former commander of the 19th Route Army, who has been on holiday in Baguio, has been invited by General Li Tsung-jen and General Pai Kwangsi military leaders, Kwangsi in the near future, according to the Canton press. mr. Vu Ping-chien, acting director of the Shanghai Telephone Administration, and concurrently chief engineer, has been asked by Gen. Vu Fei-peng, Minister of Communications, to withdraw his resignation. Mr, Vu resigned to become dean of a Chekiang university.
Baroness" Clifton, who a few ago paid a visit to China, died on July 6 of pleurisy. She is succeeded in the title by her cousin. the ninth Earl of Darley who thus becomes entitled to a seat in the House of Lords, as Baron Cliftoh of Leighton Bromswold, the Earldom being an Irish creation.
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