Death occurred at Hongkong on Christmas Day of Mr. Hsiung Hsi-ling, once the Prime Minister of the former Peking Government, Born at Fenghuang, Hunan, in 1867, Mr. Hsiung received his modern education in Japan and accompanied the Imperial Mission to Europe and America in 1905, He was the Minister of Finance in the first Republican Cabinet, Peking, in 1912, and became the Prime Minister and concurrently Minister of Finance, 1913-
Mr. Hsiung later devoted his time to social welfare and famine relief work, serving as the president of the flood relief and conservancy in Chihli, director of famine relief work in Hunan, and since 1929, executive member of the National Famine Relief Commission. He was the founder of the Children's Home for Or-at Hsiang-shan, Western Hills, During the period of Shanghai hostilities, Mr. Hsiung did a great deal in connection with the establishment of hospitals for wounded and the relief of refugees. He and his wife left here recently for Hongkong en route to the South Asian Islands for the purpose of raising funds to carry on his social welfare work, but death occurred after his arrival at Hongkong.
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