hai on Dee. 13 by the Blue Funnel S. Aeneas from home leave.
Axrowe passengers sailing for Japan on Dec. 12 in the Empress of Canada, was Mr. HE. Middleton, of the SMC. Finance Department.
Lapy L. Dalton was among the passengers who arrived here in the P. & ©. s, Chitral. Another pa senger in the same vessel was Lady Stuart Mu. and Mrs. A. As Owing and Miss Owing were among the pose Sengers arriving in Shanghai on, December' I by the Blue Funnel MGex. A. P. D. Telfer Smol-Jett, Commanding the British Fores in" Shanghai, and Mes. Telfer-Smollett left for Kobe on Dee. 12 in the Empress of Canada, Mice Bréal, general manager of the Havas News Agency for the Far East. was married to Princess Nirgidma de Torhout on Dee. 18.-The ceremony took place at 4 pin. privately, Mason A. Bowott hes accepted the invitation ofthe: Shanghai Sunllpat Counc to" At'tne vacancy on fae Frublle'ulrary Comite" case by Hutchins, recent deni Capt
Mu, Reginald Swectlond, Far East cen Correspondent of the "Chicago Bally "Nowa" sesompanied. by" Sits Sweettand ahd thie son let Shang: hai on Dee. 12" for Chicago by" the Empress of Canada. i Tue Shanghai Municipal Counci has been norited that Me. 1. Spi wanek, Consul-General for the Union Soviet Socialist Republics, has Fesumed charge of the USSR. Consulate-General, Sin George Sansom, Commercial Counsellor of the British Embassy in Tokyo, left by the Empress of Canada for Yokohama on' Dee, 12 Feturning to his post after a short visit to Shanghai, "He was aceom= panied by Lady. Sansom, Commanorn L. Neyrone, Italian Consul-General in Shanghai, arrived fon December 18 aboard the N.V-K. liner Taiyo Maru. He is proceeding, to Tokyo on oficial business, Alko aboard the liner were Mrs, S. Hidaka, wife of the former Japanese Consul: Generat in Shanghai, Cou. Enrico Andre Commander of the Savoy Grenadiers who evacuate ed Shanghai recently, was decorated with the Third Class Order of the Sacred Treasure by Emperor Hirohito Of Japan, Col, Andveini, who making a short visit to Japan, will eave for Italy soon,. He was credited with contributing to the promotion of friendly relations between Japan Tue Rev. and Mrs. John Darroch, who will be remembered as for many years residents of Shanghai, and" who left for Home some four years ayo on retirement, have heard the East a-collin' once "again, and are expected to return to Shanghat by the Gneisenau in February. Dr. Darroch has recently recovered from 1 serious illness, He and Mrs. Darroch fare returning with their sons in-law and daughter, Me. and Mes. R.A, Close, Asowe the passengers who arrived in Shanghai in the s. Chitral is Lady Stuart who has come on a long visit to her son, Mr. R. L, Stuart, Barrister atlas. of 1331 Rue Lafayette, Lady Stuart is the wife of Sir Louis Stuart of London, honorary secretary of the Indian Empire Society and Editor of "The Indian Empire Review." Sir Louis Stuart was formerly a judge of the Allahabad High Court, and later Chief Judge of the Oudh Chief Court at Lucknow.
'Tue annual general meeting of the Shanghai. Foreign Medicine Mer~ chants' Association was held at No. 17 'The Bund, Shanghai, yesterday when" the Committee's' report activities andthe accounts for the year ended September 30, 1938, wore presented, The following committee was elected for the ensuing year:—Messrs. SW. Wolfe (Chsirman), D._ Ward-Smith (Vice-Chuirman), Baugarion, Dr. 0. Giese, P.D.G. Gain, C, Guillemin, W. J. Kelly, D. Mennie, H. W. Pfu, G. Salle and Schloten, Henderson Here on December 30
Shanghai, Dec. 20.
The US. Navy transport Henderson arrives off Woosung on December 30 enroute from. the United States by way of Guam and the Philippines, Aboard this ship are approximately 7 marine replacements who are coming from the Philippines, Guam and the United Stat's for duty with the 4th Regiment. About the same number of marines, their foreign duty having expired, will leave the 4th Regiment for the United States when the Henderson departs from Shunghai for her return trip.
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