cit en a pentane ae sites Anxiety on Fate of Miss Wilkinson Hankow, June "13.
Acting upon the request of the New Zealand Government, the British Consulate-General in Hankow is endeavouring to trace the whereabouts of Miss ris Wilkinson, the New Zealand writer, who has not been heard of for the past month.
The Acting Consul-General, Mr. C. E, Whitmore, is getting into contact with Dr. Donald Hankey, at Chengchow, and several mission stations for in~ formation regarding the missing woman.
No fresh news of Miss Wilkinson can be obtained in Hankow, where it is hoped that she found refuge with missionaries at Hsuchow, when that city was attacked by the inoculation certificate before pas~ sage to north China or Dairen will bbe sold, this practice is not being followed by other steamship lines, the spokesman commented, Twenty-two cases of cholera, the! spokesman added, had been reported Soochow up to Monday. Eight of the patients. al! Chinese, had died, The Japanese Consulate-General in Shanghai, the spokesman went on, had stopped ihe issue of bills of health to vessels proceeding to Japan. This was because Shenghai and Woosung had been officially designated as cholera-infected harbours.
'These documents, certifying that the vessel was net' carrying a comrmunicable disease and had not entered fan infected port, facilitated quarantine formalities upon arrival in Japan, the! spokesman explained, North China Link to Manchoukuo Peiping, June 16.
Chinese sources stale that for effecting closer trade relationship Between Manchoukuo and' the "Provisional Government," the two governments are contemplating the appointment of trade commissioners {fo be stationed in Hsinking and Peiping.
It ig Feported that the "Provisional Government" has designated Mr. Chow Chueh, former foreign affairs commissioner of the National Government in Shanghai, to the post.
Mr. Chow has already arrived in Peiping and is leaving shortly for Changchun after having interviewed Mr. Wang Keh-min, chairman of the administrative commission of the report Chao Hsin-po, former Minister of Justice in Manchoukuo, who is now staying in Peiping, is the most likely candidate for the ost of trade commissioner in Peiing for Manchoukuo—Reuter.
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