Both Mr. and Mrs. Barentzen took a prominent part in the social life of Shanghai, Harbin and the other cities where Mr. Barentzen has been stationed. More particularly so, however, in the earlier years in Harbin and more recently in Shanghai Mrs. Barentzen is known both in Harbin and Shanghai as a great sports-woman—especially in the fields of riding, shooting and -boating—and was hostess at many a gay week-end trip on the river.
During this period, they have also travelled extensively throughout the world and, being far-sighted, looked at many places as possible "new, fixed homes" when they eventually retired. In Kenya Colony, Mr. and Mrs. Barentzen think that they have found the ideal home—and in view of the many enquiries made by people as to the possibilities of Kenya, Mr. Barentzen has promised to write letters on the subject for the "North-China Daily News."
They sail south in the J.C.J.L. s. Tjinegara today for Hongkong. They
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