News has been received of the death in Kobe on Sunday of Mr. Willam Patrick Jensen, known to a number of residents as a regular annual visitor to Shanghai during the past fifteen years.
A native of Denmark, Mr. Jensen, who at the time of his death was 64 years of age, spent about 20 years in business in Calcutta, and on his retirement some 15 years ago divided his time between residence in South-sea, England, during the spring and summer, and traveling in the Far East during the autumn and winter. Owing to failing health, "Daddy" Jensen, as he was familiarly known to his friends, did not return to England last spring, and as he always made his Shanghai home at the Palace Hotel he was living there when the bombing catastrophe occurred on August 14, from which Gisaster he escaped unhurt, although badly shaken. Two or three weeks inter he left for Japan in an effort io regain his health, and remained for several months at Unzen, later going on to Kobe, where medical examination showed him to be suffering from an internal complaint.
A man of a kindly and retiring disposition, Mr. Jensen was highly respected by all who knew him, and many friends in Far Eastern ports, and passengers by the N.D.L. liners, on which he regularly travelled, will regret to learn of his death.
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