Balfour, who was Field Secretary for the China District of the Army and Navy Y.M.C.A.s, having served at Peiping, Chefoo, Hankow and Shanghai. for many years, has just reached Shanghai.
Mr, Balfour was operated on in the Leavenworth Hospital for append dicitis. After several days complications set in which caused his death on August 16 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He was buried at Lynn, Mass, It is a tremendous shock to Mr. Balfour's many friends to learn of this loss. Mr. Balfour was permanently transferred from China a little over a year ago and had already made many strong friends and had begun to make a real success of his work at Leavenworth, Mr. George Hsu Chien Hongkong, Sept The death has occurred. at the age of 69. of Mr. George Hsu Chien. former Minister of Justice and President of the Supreme Court.
Born at Nanchang, Kian; in 1872, Mr. Hsu attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as adviser to the delegation of the Southern Chinese Government.
He participated in the Fukien inde-idence movement in 1933-34 and appointed Minister of Justice of the "People's Governmeni chow, and since the collapse of the movement had been living in retirement.—Reuter, in Foo-
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