Mr. A. M. Tracey Woodward Alphonse Merie Tracey Wood ward who died at sea on March 2 was -buried on April 20 at Gadaujac, Gironde, France. The deceased who leaves a widow and family to mourn his loss was well known in the Far Cost, as a student and collector of Japanese stamps and Chinese minted coins. He had probably the best collection in the world of the former and one of the best collections of the latter, In 1928 he published "The postage stamps of Japan and Dependencies," in two large volumes and was ackncwledged the leading authority on Japanese stamps.
His collection of Chinese minted coins ran into many thousands. Dur-the years 1926 te 1935 he ran a series of articles in the "China Journal" entitled "Notes on the minted coins of China." The footnotes in these articles showed a v amount of research and gave a great deal of valuable information, At the time of his death he was a member of the committee of the Numismatic Society of China. r. L. C. C. Andersen Mr, L, C. C. Andersen, who passed 24 years in the Far East in the service of the Great Northern Telegraph Company, died suddenly in Esbjerg, Denmark, on June 2, according to telegraphic advices. Mr. Andersen had spent thirty years with the Great Northern Company. He arrived in China in 1914 and served in various local posts, being Superintendent at Shang until 1936. when he went to Nagasaki to take charge of the Compeny's station there., In April of this year he left Japan on Home leave and it was luring his leave, while he was en route from Copenhagen to London that he was taken ill with pneumonia and died. He leaves his wife. Mrs. Molly Andersen, who is British and who, with her husband, was well known in Shanghai social circles. The couple a few years ago suffered the loss of their on who died while at college in England.
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