Death came yesterday at the age of 72 after several weeks of illness fo Mr. George Watis Gibb, M.A., general director of the China Inland Mission here, who was appointed to his present position in 1935, in Succession to Mr. D. E. Hoste, upon the latter's retirement.
The late Mr. Gibb. who was a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, came out to China in 1894, and is survived by n widow who is with the same mission; a daughter, Mrs. E. A. Sadler who is connected with the China Inland Mission in Szechuan Province and another married daughter in Canada.
Peiping, Nov. 12.
Referring to the stories which, despite repeated denials, continue to appear in the local vernacular press, io the effect that the two American institutions, Yenching University and the Peking Unfon Medical College (P.U.M.C), ore busy making pre-Parations to close up, a leading foreign personage here who is closely connected with both institutions, in special interview with Reuters, categorically denied that there was any truth whatever in these reports.
4$ the administrations of the we col ly recurring rumours were disturbing He Pointed out that these constant-
Teges, -because of the tendency to create a feeling of uncertainty among the Chinese staff and students. It was stated. im the most em] manner, on behalf of the executives of both institutions, that there was not the slightest intention, as conditions were at present, of closing up either place. No steps of any kind had been taken in that direction, which could even have given any ground for such rumours, and there had been absolütely no change whatever in the organisation or the operations of the two institutions. The only foreigners connected with Yenching University, who are leaving soon, àre two women teachers and et- one t:
family, all of whom arè due to go home on leave at this time. From the P.U.M.C. the wives and small the children of two staff families are de* parting. No other changes in personnel are contemplated.
In some quarters here it is believed that the continued campaign in the local press about the closing-up of the two, American institutions is ely another part of the general offensive that has been'going on now fgr the last two years or more in these' parts to undermine Western, and particularly American educational institutions—Reiter.
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