Baron and Boroness G. de Walden arrived here on Feb. 22 in the s. Naldera from Hongicong.
Sir James and Lady O'Brien arrived here on February 24 in the s. President Hoover, en route to Hongkong.
'Mr. H. C. Pullen, representing the Gyn' Eastern Agencies, arrived here by the Empress of Japan from Hongkong and is staying st the Palace Hotel.
Passengers arriving in Shanghai on Feb, 22 from London in the s. Naldera included Mr. F. S, Bridges, Mr. and Mrs. F, J. Myerscough, Mrs. W. A. McCietiand, and Mr. Walmsiey.
Mrs, John E. Williams, wife of a former vice-president of the Univer= ssily of Nanking, who lost his life at the hands of Communist soldiers dur Ing the 1927 troubles, is to visit China In April or May, according to word Fecelved here, Mr. Martin Fischer, Councillor of the German Embassy, left" Nanking on February 22 for Germany on short, leave. He will return here two months later together with Mrs. Fischer who has been back in Germany since last November.
Mrs, Olive Jory left on Feb, 23 for Hongkong on her way to" South Africa, Thence she will leave for London where she expects to arrive June. "Her address in England will Yangtze, Southeourt - Avenue, Boxhill-on-Sea, Sussex where her friends will always be welcome.
News has been received that Mr. Joseph Brown FIS.A. secured fifth lace in the London "Association of Certined Accountants Final Examina-ton held last December, having taken the Intermediate "Examination the previous June, and completing the Whole course in only fifteen months.
The s. Felix Roussel, arriving here on Feb, 22 from Marseilles and way ports, brought a large number passengers, including M, M. Crepin, French Consul at Mukden, and Mme. Crepin: M. Cattand, French Viee-Consul here, and Mme. Cattand; M. J. Vidal' de Lablanche, Baron" and Baroness G, Limmander de Nieuwenhave, and others, With the departure of Signor Vincenzo, Lojacono, former Italian Ambassador to China, and Count Bonarelli i Castelbompiano, Cout seller, Signor Arosset Desandre, First Secretary, will temporarily take charge of the affairs of the Italian Embassy pending the arrival of Signor Guilano Cora, the new Ambassador who is due in April, Mr. Seigo thata, manager of the: local branch of the Sumitomo Bank, will leave here for Japan on March 6 in the inv, Asma Maru to take up his new duties at the Oraka head~ quarters of the institution. He will be succeeded by Mr. Kenichi Kawapuchi, assistant manager of the Yokohama branch of the bank, who arrived in Shanghai in the s. Haruna Maru on February 23.
Mrs. Vin Pearson, together with Mrs. L, Grooms, wife of Mr. E.
Grooms, of Tientsin, sailed "for Honolulu on February 26 in the s. Empress of Japan, where they in~ tend to spend a few days. Later they will go 10 San Francisco where they will make an extended visit upon Mrs. Carl Seitz, a former resid= ent of Shanghai and sister of Mrs. Groome. In fate April, Mrs. Pearson will visit Vancouver, where she will meet her daughter, Vera, and they will both continue on to England to visit relatives and friends. They also some time on the returning to the United August and sailing "for from Vancouver some time in September.
Mr. Julius Rosenfeld, senior partner of Messrs. A.B, Rosenfeld & Son, has been elected a member of the Chicago Board of Trade, Mme. Flora Rosemberg, the French barrister-at-law, has returned. Shanghai in the inv. Asama Maru froma business trip to Paris:
Mr. E Fuerhoolzer, of the Trans-Ocean "News Service, and Mrs. Fuerhoelzer sailed for Bremen on February 20 in the Gneisenau.
Capt. J. W. Carle, manager of the Licensed Pilots Astoclation, was a passenger in the s. Empress of Japan, which loft Shanghai on Feb. 26, 'After four months' leave of absence in America, Mr. George Atcheson, Second Secretary of the American Embassy returned to Nanking on February 25, The Municipal Council has been notified that, on his return. from Europe, Mr. 'N. Aall, Consul-general for Notway, has resumed charge of Norwegian Consulate-
Mr. A. Hassck, manager of the Harbin branch of the Wagon Lits, is being transferred to Shanghai, the Wagon Lits office there having' been taken over by the Manchoukuo State Dr. J. Lee H. Paterson, superintendent of the Lester Chinese Hospital, who left for Home some 18 months ago to recuperate after a serious illness, has returned to Shanghai and resumed his old post.
Mr. R. G. Howe, Counsellor of the British' Embassy, is being transferred to England following the expiration of his three years of office China. "He ly soon to leaves companied by Mrs. Howe, Mrs. J. C. Woods, of Sydney, was amongst the arrivals on the Empress fof Japan. She left on Feb, 26 for Peiping and thence goes on via Japan to the United States where she will give a series of travel talks, Mr, T. Oka, secretary to Mr. Funaisu, director-general of the Japanese Cotton Millowners' Associa on of China, has left for Japan, prior fo sailing for London, where he will attend the Coronation and where he proposes to settle down, The Emperor of Japan has conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, first class, with Grand Cordon, the highest honour that can be given a foreigner, upon M. Albert Kammerer, the retiring French Ambassador to Japan.
Dr. J. A. Hullman, the retiring] Swedish "Minister {0 China and Mrs, Hultman and Miss Brita Bult man, have sailed for Malmo, Sweden, Dr. "Hultman, who is retiring, has served for fificen years in the Swedish diplomatic service in the Far East, first as Consul-General in Shanghai, and, from 1929, as Minister to China Mr. K. E. Newman has returned to Shanghai from Home where he has been on leave in unusually good time. Leaving London on February 11, he arrived in Shanghai via the Siberian route on Thursday, February 25, but the actual elapsed time of travel was 13% days. Mr. Newman covered the journey from Shanghai to London also in 13% days.
Lieut, Herman P. Riebe, of the U. S. "Naval Dental Corps, sailed for Home, via the Suez Canal and Europe, in the s. President Wilson on Mar.
He will be accompanied by his fe and children. Lieut. Mebe has been granted a. five-month del order to pursue a post course at Stockholm, Sweden, before taking up new duties at New York Since his arrival in Shanghai in 1935, Ricbe has been attached
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