From 1903 to 1916, Pere Robert was procurator for the Missions Etrangeres in Hongkong, and only visited Shanghai for a week or so every two or three years. He subsequently went to Paris to take up the post of assistant fo the Superior "General, Whom he succeeded two years ago. His last visit to Shanghai was in 1028, Pere Robert' was, of course, a delegate "to the recent Bucharistic Congress in Manila, "He came out by 8 different route from that of most of the representatives, however, leaving the ship at Singapore to motor through Malaya, "Siam and 'Tndo-China. 'The Eucharistic Congress, he said, showed great progress in' the matter of organization as compared with the Congress in 1928 in Sydney. Tt was really wonderful how, in per feet order, two hundred priests gave communion to 80,000 children one day' and to 100,000 women the next. The huge crowd, divided into two hundred. sections, was handled in such manner that there was not one discord ole struck during the whole Con-
Pare Robert sails from Shanghai to-morrow for Japan. He is to make 8 tour of that country, Korea and Manchoukuo before going on 10 Harbin to board the trans-Siberian express for Paris, which he hopes each in nine days. Despite the comparatively great distance he would be away from China, comparative only the sense of geographical miles, his interest in Shanghai and this country as a whole would remain, as keen Income tax may now be paid in Shanghai to the Nations) Government through the Chinese Post Office, og well as the Central Bank of Chinas
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