Mr, LIH, Read completed 55 years: in China on April 26.
Mr. Tu Yun-tang, it is reported, will shortly be appointed Consul-General in Manil Mr. Carlos G, Peraza, Cuban Consul at Tokyo, and Mrs. Peraza are visiling Shanghai prior to going home.
Mr. F. J. W. Focken has been elected to serve on the committee of the Shanghai Rie Association for 1037, seilles in the Blue Funnel str. Antenor, 'Mr, B, Seibert, U, S, Vice-Consut here, has received' nonce' of the forth-transfer to the American Consulate-Generat at Havana, Cuba, Among the passengers arriving here from Europe in the Rawalpindi on May 2 were Mr. and Mrs. Campbell, Mrs. C, H. Eldridge," Mr 'HI Pilling, Mr. J. Turner and Nie, Mr, W. L. Holland, research direc: for and secretary of the Institute of Pacific Relations, and Mrs. Holland arrived here on April 28 in the s, Two interesting passengers passed through Shanghai a few days ago in the Empress of Asia. They were Mr, James, Ferguson, Governor of Texas, and Governor "Ma" Ferguson.
Mr. J. Nimmo, of the Shanghai Dockyards, Lid, and Mrs. Nimmo have left Shanghai for Hongkong, where Mr. Nimmo is joining the staff of the Taikoo Dockyard and Engineer~ ing Ca.
Members of the staff of the Whang-oe Conservancy Board were hosts a farewell luncheon given. to their retiring engineer-in-chief, Dr. Herbert Chatley, at the New Asia Hotel on May 2:
August 1034, has boon ordered trans: vice-consul, stationed "here since Int, Shigeru Tekahast, a Japanese
ferred to Amoy. "ie will eave. on or about 12, the *Shanghal Nippo" reported. He will be succeeds torn -yo Forelgi Mr. Naviyoshi Sasa. chancellor, now serving at the Tokyo Foreign Dr. Zoerner, professor of axricultural economy'at the Berlin Academy of Agriculture, has arrived at Nanking to lecture on questions of small-scale farming at the University of Nanking for one academic year.
Among the passengers arriving on the s. Hakozaki Maru on Apr. 27 was Mr. G. B. Stewart, of Messrs, Stewarts and Lloyds, Ltd, London, who is making a short business trip to the Far East, having already visited India and Malaya.
The Municipal Council has been notified that the heads of Consulates concerned have elected Mr. N. Yor shioka, acting Consul-General for Japan, to succeed Mr. T. Kawai, as a Judge of the Court of Consuls for the remainder of 1037, pillanthropist, now member of the AM. ate Heiang-po, a
State Council of China, will eslebrate his Bath birthday on May 16, says the "Min Pao". and a number of {lends are starting' a movement to bulld'a home in his honour. Mr ate one of the founders of the Aurora ahd the. Fuh Pan Universities in Mr. Shinrokuro Hitaka, the new= ly-appointed—Consul-General "in Nanking and concurrently counsellor fo the Japanese Embassy in China, arrived here on April 28 from. Japan in the s. Shanghai Maru. Before his appointment. to China, Mr. Hitaka was the director of the Personnel Bureau in the Gaimusho Secretariat, Mr. C. Jinarahadasa, a4.a,, (Car tab.) will make a brief visit to Shang-hal this week. Mr. Jinarahadasa Is the suther of many books and consider= ed one of the best living exponents of Theosophy. He is also a versatile Tecturer, an authority on science as well as' art, Mr. Toshi Go, counsellor of the South Manchuria Railway Ca, and Assistant manager of the frm's local office, has resigned, the local Japanese brets reported on May 2, "His retire: ment was accepted by the company on April 30 when 2,768 employees of the firm were dismissed, Mr. Go has become a special assistant to the pre= sident of the Y800,000,000 firm with erniees in. Shanghai, re Mr. Charles D. Pearson, "Mrs, The Peruvian Government _has announced the transfer of Dr, Ricardo Rivera Schreiber, Minister to Japan and China, to the post of Minister to Colombia. Dr. Rivera: Schreiber, who is a member of the advisory committee of the Peruvian Foreign Office, has been in the Far Bas since late last year. He was formally Minister to Ecuador, Dr. Hi. H. Kung as been elected Chancellor of Yenching University, Peiping. He will assume this posi= tion at the end of the academic year succeeding the acting Chancellor, Dr. C.-W. Luh, according to a decision passed by the Yenching board managers. Dr. Kung has served as chairman of the Yenching board of managers for many years, Among those who sailed on Apr. 27 for Europe and London in the s Rajputana were Mrs, N. H. Baird, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Blaikie, Mrs. J.B, Clissold, LA-Col, and Mrs. J. G. Gill, Dr. and Mrs. f, Goodwin, Capt. and Mrs. C, T. Gross, It-Col. J. R. Lloyd, Dr, and Mrs. W. R, Morse, Mr.
'R. Rao, Mr, 1. G. Thomas, Sir Charles and Lady Todhunter and) Mr. and Mrs. G. B, Worby.
General J. Aguilar, the Mexican Minister io China, "presented his credentials to Afr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National "Government, Nanking on May 90. The [Minister was accompanied by Mr. C. Amador, first secretary Mexican Legation, and" was troduced to the National Chairman by Dr. Wang Chung-hui, Minister of Mrs. J. Spencer Kennard and her doughier Anne arrived here from Yokohama in the Suwa Maru. Dr, Kennard, who was forbidden permission to land when he returned fo Japan last year from leave in the United States" because his views were considered harmful, and fs. Kennard have been appointed teachers in West China Union University, at Chengtu, Szechuen, Announcement has been made by the Holy See of the appointment of the Very ey. Joseph Fogued. as Prefect Apostolic of Tunki Anhwal, Filiy-two years of age, Mig. Posed Is a Spaniard, He is a member of the Calretian Congrogation, to wich the Prefecture of Tunkd was" eontded upon its separation from Wah Vie= lo at February. Hunk is near welchowfu in the extreme cout Mr. A. Hauchecorne, French Consul in, Kobe, accompanied by his wile and "daughter, passed through here from Japan in the. liner Joan Laborde on thelt way home to France Mr. Havchecorne went t0 Japan about 18 years ago as French Consul after about 25 years stayin China, "ie in studied Japanese literature, Jorur!, [Yekyoku songs and ancient Japanese arts, Me. D. Bt Depeyre, formerly French Consul in Keljo, Korea, Is the now Consul in Lobo, The Great Northern Ca, and East-m Extension "Telegraph Ca, have Riven farewell partes in the Shanghai {Club where: the foreign start of both Companies. attended, headed by the managers, Mr. LIS. Poulsen and Me, F.''B Pfordten, on the oceaston the departure of Messrs, 1, Horn and e-ing fom the Par aa, where Each of the two wentiemen "wore ey have served. for murly years.
resented with a handsome silver box tu which were engraved the signor res "of their ce-workers "in "the telegraph service, a very nice men onto in their Feticement Information has been received by the local Netherlands. Consulate-Gen, thee the aviator Khouw Ko-hien, to: ether with a passenger Tan Gie-Started his Might to China on Aprit 20. According toa United Press report the aetwatly arrived on April 28 Singapore. He is stag an aeroplane Netherlands" "manufacture, the Watraven W-2," registration, - marks KOKIGH, provided with two Pobjoy Niagara motors of 18/80 H. P. Mr. Khouw will wire his route from Hongkong. Tt is presumed that he intends to land at the Lunghwa see drome on his way to Nanking, General Yang nation Dr. W. R. Morse and Mrs. Morse, teachers in "the West China Union University, were passengers in the s. Rajputana, sailing for London on Apr. 27. Owing to the ill-health of Dr. Morse, they are probably re-Uring from China after 28 years' service in the country. Dr. Morse Birector of the College of Medicine and Dentistry. Mrs. Morse is very widely known for her outstanding water colours of the Gorges and Szechuen.
President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of the Miliary Affairs Commission, will be Shanghai for a few' days, according {o local press reports, in preparation for his trip abroad, which may start some time in the middle of May, Gen, Yang was one of those generals who Ju December last, tried to stage 9 coup d'état in by detaining wek_and other
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