The death occurred on Friday, at the Country Hospital, of Mr. Alfred James Perry, of the Shanghai Telephone Company, following a very brief illness. of only two days. Mr. Perry, who was 39 years of age, came fo Shanghai first tu 1923: to join the Shanghai Mutual Telephone Ca. He had been employed before that with the telephone ditions of the General Post Office In London His career here with the old company and the present Shanghai Telephone Ca. was highly successful. At the time of the conversion from the manual to the automatic system, Mr. Perry was in charge of ce-ordinating the affairs of the conversion and the schedules of the operation. He did an outstanding job with this, being largely responible for the smoothness with which was garned out. Following this work, he was promoted to general commercial manager of the concern, in which position he has been mar edly successful.
Outside his work, Mr. Perry had many friends. He was a member St. George's Society and the Royal Air Force Association. A bachelor, hho is survived by his mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. James Perry, at present residing in Essex.
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