Fifty-five Consecutive Years in the Orient One of the oldest of old China hands, Mr. C. Herzberg, who has spent 85 consecutive years in the Orient, most of them" in Shanghai, fon May 0 celebrating his 90th birth-'Vigorous-minded and possessed of a delightful sense of humour, Mr. Herzberg. was the guest. that' day fat a cocktail party being given by his" children, adult grand-children and friends at Kelmscott Gardens from 32 to 2 pan.
'Three shipwrecks are some of the many Interesting experiences related esterday by Mr. Gerzberg to a. 'North-China' Dally News" reporter who listened somewhat agog to a Well-told tale covering eight decades.
In Oriental waters, Mfr. Herzberg has spent most of his life as a marine engineer and believes that ihe is the only survivor among those who ran on the old vessels of the Miltsu Pish! Mall Steamship Company Which later amalgamated with the Kyodo Uniu' Kaisha to form the present Nippon Yusen Kaisha. He described those ships as low-pressure paddle boats of 3,000 ton:
At a little town in Silesia called Schweldnitz, Mr. Herzberg was born on May 0, 1987 of German parentage. Ho spent his school days at Walden-burg" and Breslau and.in that district of coal mining and factories he staried his career as an apprentice ring. works.
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