Ins. James Hay and hor daughter, Miss Catherine, are leaving Shanghai this week in the President Coolidge fen route to Vancouver, Apvice has just been received from London that Mr, A, Janne Wah, BE, AMIC (ust) has been' elected! an associate member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (London), Mu. Yasuzo Yajima, newly-ap= pointed manager of the Shanghai branch of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Eave a cocktail party at the Nippon Club on Boone Road on Friday afternoon, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reports, Farexos of L, 1. Wade, who left Shanghai last' December, will be Interested to hear that he reached England safely' and has now. been enlisted into the RAF, It is under~ stood also that he stands avery ood chance of gelting a commission, Assistanr Police Commissioner L.
Kakegawa has been promoted Deputy Commissioner of the Municipal Police Force and his post will be; Mlled by Mr, Hisao Furuya, Japan ese consul. Mr, Kakegawa ig assuming the office formerly held by Mr.
Uyehara, 'M, Hennt Cosmo, the French Ambassador, who retimed here from Hongkong recently, left Shanghai on February 22, for Peking, it was learn~ ed on Fobrisry 20. Madame Cosme will accompany him on this trip, It Is expected that he will rolurn {to the city early in March. specron Shigeo Masuda, of the Nanking Japanese Consular Police, has been' appointed chief of the Wuhu Japanese Police Station in suc~ cession to Assistant Inspector Kichigoro Sugano, who has been appointed chief of the Tangku Police Station, the "Shanghai Mainichi" re ports, Genenat, Wu Te-chen, Minister of Oversea Affairs of the "Chinese Government, gave a dinner in Hongkong in honour of the Dutch Con sul there on February 20, says a Hongkong message to the Sin Wan Pao." Many prominent Dutch resldenis in Hongkong were invited to the party, parly of British journalists on February 18, entertained Mr. Randall Gould, the departing editor of the Evening Post and Mercury" at luncheon at the Shanghai Club. Mr, R.T, Peyton-Grifin, the editor of the North-China Daily News" proposed the toast in honour of Mr, Gould, who replied, regretting his departure and the severance of a umber of old friendships In Shang-
'Tue SMC. Secretary and Commissioner General was host on the even-Ing of Feb, 18, at a dinner held at the Shanghat Club in' honour of Mr, H. Ibusuld, Deputy Secretary, who retiring' from the Council' service at the end of February. 'There were Dresent Messrs. G. 2, Mitchell, N, F. Allman, W. Gotison, G: A, Haley, Hanawa, R. G, MacDonald, T. 8. Powell, Vu Ya Ching, L.,' Yuan, A. F. Gimson, G. G. Phillips, TKbusuki, T. K, Mo, J. W, Allan, KK, Ikeda and K, Noguchi.
Menmucns of the Secretariat slat of the Shanghai Municipal Council were hosts at a tin party on Feb. 20, in honour of Messrs, Hf, Ibusuki and B, 7. Nash, who are' shortly retiring from the service, Ina short speech Mr. G. Godfrey Phillips, Secretary and Commissioner Gen eral, bore testimony to the valuable services rendered by' the two departing oMcials during' their association with the secretariat and tothe cestoom in which they were held by their colleagues inthe department, On behalf of all those present he wished them both every success and happiness in the future, and pre~ sented Mr, Thusuki with a travelling clock and Mx. Nash with a piece of carved ivory.
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