'A canur received here states that Mr. C.L. Martin has received commission inthe Royal Artillery. eu BES mmr azeges 491.50 basal yor Cost one Pos Ir may be of interest to her friends that Ins. R. E. Toeg. who has been besieged with enquiries has received a telegram from her daugh for In Athens as follows: "Maske.
'MR. Masanao Kono, Counsellor to the South Manchuria' Railway Comgu Pany in Nanking, has been appointed har 36.
Adviser to the Kwangtung Provincial Government, according to the "Tairiku. Shimpo." tary of the Country Club in Shang-hal, He held this post' until. tre outbreak of war In "1914 when he was one of the first to join up with the Chinese Labour Corps, being t00 old for combatant service. te was Ar the monthly lunch of the committee of the Royal Society" of St. George, which took place on Oct. 31 at the Shanghai Ctub, under the chairmanship of the President, Dean A.CS. Trivett, Mr, L. H. Lamb. HIM. "Superintendent Consul, was the guest of honour. well suited for his post in charge of 8 battalion in. France as during his four of duty in China he had spent a long period in the study of the written "and spoken language, in which he was well versed, It was uring "this period of service in France that he will be remembered by many—who were in Uke chinese Labour Corps of aided by ite excel ent work during the Great War.
Captain Brook revisited after' peace was declared and. his birth, where he ie fan elder brother and sister, Mrs, Helen Ward Shanghai. Oct. 30.
Funeral. services were held on Monday at the Russian Orthodox Mission Church for the tate Mrs Helen Ward. following which inter= ment took place at the Hungjao Road Cemetery, Father 1. Gabriel assisted by Deacon V. Konovaloft and the Russian Choir, carried ott the last rites. Deceased was the wife! of Mr. Thomas Henry Ward and the sister of Mrs, A. S. Novitsky and Mrs. ALS. Speelnien. who were: the chief mourners, Mrs, Ward died at the Countey! Hospital on October 22 at the age of 36. years.
Funeral services were delayed Ther husho De, J. E. Baker, Director of th China "international Famine "Relief Commission and concurrently Score tary-General to the Shanghai Red Cross Society, has returned to China from America and is now in Kunming Supervising the shipment of medical supplies via the Yunnan-Burma high" way. On November 21, 1939. he left Shanghai for the Unlied States to raise relief funds for refugees and wounded soldiers in China.
Fatuen Jacquinot, ce-chairman of the Chinese-Foreign Famine Relief Committee and ticed of the Nonino Refugee Relief Committee, 1s tour the. United Staten, reports the "Sin Wan Pao." Father Jacquinot left Shanghai sometime last June intend ing 10 proceed to France to do relief work. but while in Hongkong France concluded an armistice with Germany. He then left for Manila en Toute to California by the American Clipper and is now making a lecture tour through the United States.
"Tae Municipal Couneit has a aa. recommendation of the Education Board. that two Special Committees (functioning as subcommittees of the Education Board) be formed to consider applications for educational grants for 1941, with the following membership:—Foreign Ban Schools—Mrs, Lancelot Giles, Messrs.
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