Mr. T. Ito Arrives From Japan To Take Over Local Office Among the many passengers who arrived in Shanghai on Friday on board the Shanghai Maru from Nagasaki Japan, were Mr. Takeo Ito and Mr. Shigeharu Matsumoto, the "Shanghai United News" reported yesterday morning.
Mr. Ito, former head of the Tientsin branch of the South Manchuria Railway Company, will be chief of the Shanghai Bureau of the S.M.R., while Mr. Matsumoto returned to resume his post as chief of the Domei News Agency.
One week-end last April, Judge Sir Allan Mossop saw a frail little gosling limping across a country path near Soochow, while he was taking a walk in the country during a houseboat trip. From that day onwards, the judge and the little gosling became rin friends. The friendship led to Sir Allan purchasing the gosling for one dollar, and taking it back to Shanghai with him. That was last April. Now, the little gosling has grown into a fine, hand-Some goose. It has become a favourite pet of Sir Allan's, and lives in its own little house in his garden.
Seated in his office in H.M. Consulate yesterday, Sir Allan was in the midst of poring over some legal documents when questioned about his pet goose by a "North-China Daily "News" reporter. "When I ûrst saw the little creature," Sir Allan explained, "it was only a ball of white fluff. 'One of the webs on its feet was broken, and it had evidently been separated from the remainder of the flock' by its owner."
"I stopped to have a look at the funny little creature, and when I went on it followed me like a dog. I visited the spot the next day, and there was the gosling waiting for me. It seemed a pity to break up such a friendship, so I found the owner, paid him a dollar for the gosling, and took it back to Shanghai with
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