The Archive · 1940

PERSONAL NOTES

Muss A. G. 8, Smith, Nursing Sister of the Lester Chinese Hospital, has returned to Shanghai after a Tong Teaver in. England, Contr, L. Neyrone left Shanghai on November 1i, in the s. Dairen Maru en route to Hsingking, to take his new post as Tallinn Minister to Manchoukuo, Mu, Charles Bruce, former cable editor, of the "North-China Daily News" left Shanghai for Australia on November 13, accompanied by his other, Mr, Bruce was on the ed-(orial atafl for over six years.

Dunne the absence of Mr. G. Godfrey Phillips on two weeks short eave from November 1, Mr.

Bryan, It, Municipal Advocate, will act for the Secretary and Commissioner General of the Shanghai Municipal Counci Mu. Edward Rogers Long, Swedish Consul in Tientain, died suddenly on November 11. MY. James Turner, Chairman of the British Municipal Council, has been appointed temporarily' to take charge of the Swedish Consulate in Tientsin, Mu. Keniji, Kodama, President of the Central China Development Company, will visit Shanghai on Decem= ber 4. Mr. Saburo Sonoda, director of the company, and Mr. Masanori Fukimatst, chief of the accounts ection, lett Shanghai for Tokyo on Friday.

Mu, 'T. Sayle has had news from his son, J.D, Sayle, who recently went to Malaya to undergo a period fof training inthe ranks, with the joe of working fora commission understood that he remained a thort time in- Malaya before. bein passed on to India, where he is now ati ACTU, in the United Provines, He cabled—" Everything Me, Tetsuichi Suda, chief of the: coal section of the Shanghai, branch of the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha, has been appointed chief of the coal section of Tientsin branch of the company and is due to leave Shanghai for his new post at the beginning of next month, according to the "Shang hai Mainichi." The post vacated by Mr, Suda, will be fied by Mr. Yoshikatst! Ohashi, former chief of the coal section of the Company's London branch, added the paper.

Genena, Wu Te-chen, Minister of Overseas Affairs of "the Chinese Government at Chungking. was nest of honour at a dinner vecep~ tion given by My.. W. Jones, Acting Governor of the Straits Scitlements, following his arrival at Singapore. on November 14. the "shun Pao" reports. Interviewing: pressmen yesterday, General Wu Aeelared that the moral and material arisance which Great Beta, giving to China will strengthen and cement Sino-British ce-operation.

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