Mr, Issaku Okamoto, member of the Shanghai Municipal Council, returned to Shanghai from Tokyo by air on January 16, the "Shanghai Mainichi" reported.
Tue committee of the British United Services Association inform their members that the president of the Association, Brig. Gen, E. B. Macnaghten, has resigned from this office consequent upon his decision not to return to Shanghai, Mac. R, E, Jobez and her four children lett Shanghai on Jan. 15, en route for London, where' she will rejoin her husband, Captain Jobez, who was formerly with the French Concession Police here and is now in London as a supporter of the de Gaulle movement, His many friends will be pleased to know that in a' later "message received on January 20, the wounds sustained by Jack Sheridan were not of a serious nature and that he Is now back on duty. Jack Sheridan Ig with the Australian Forces in the Lybian campaign, aim P. Chu, Chinese Vice~ Consul at Manila has been promoted fo the post of Chinese Consul by the Chinese National Government at Chungking, says the "Cheng Yien Pao." Mr.' Chu was formerly. busi ess manager of the "China Cut, and Secretary-General of the World Students Federation, 'Mu, Ellis Hayim gave a luncheon fon Jan, 15, at the Cathay Hotel honour' of Dr. Earl Baker, 'The guests included' Mr, A, H, George, 'Admiral Glassford, sir' Robert Calder-Marshall, Dean Trivett, Bri" madier B, Morris, Mr, Vu Ya Chin Mr, Gordon Morris, the Rev, C, Boynton, and many others. another column, Brig.-General E. B, Macnaghten announces that he and Mrs. Macnaghten are not roturning to China, at any rate until the end of the war, Since last May the General has been commanding a Dattalion of the Home Guard, which has kept him very busy, The Macnaghtens are living at Woking-ham, Perks.
Mu, Erik Kronvall, Charge Affaires ai,_and Acting Consul General for Sweden, having been transferred to another post, left Shanghai on Jan, 17. His successor, Mr, Molle Pripp, First Secretary of Legation, has taken charge of the Swedish Legation and Swedish Consulate General as Charge Affaires and Acting Consul General, By decision of the French Muni cipality of January 15, the Mun! cipal Bronze Medal was awarded to OPE'S Song Ping-mal and Suny Zeng-ising, the frst being elted for bravery in pursuing an armed bandit on January 10, after the etiminal fired a shot at him. The second was decorated for shooting the same criminal down and arresting him, Mu J.B Baker, director of the American "Red Ctoss Committee in China who was recently honoured here at a dinner party held by. representatives of many Chinese philanthropic bodies has left Shang-hal for Hongkong whence he may proceed to Chungking again supervise the distribution of Amerl= can relict materials which he obtained for Chinese refugees, Pay Clark J. E, Gray of the United States Navy Purchasing OMmec in Shanghai left here for Hankow on Jan, 19, aboard a regular Japanese airliner to. relieve Pay Clerk "Paul Jackson in Hankow. Jackson will return to Shanghal_ plane on January 22, to receive medical treatment in a local hospital. He is suffering from cirewlatory trouble which might become critical if not treated immediately.
Mu. David Lu, formerly connected Reuters office in Shanghal_and until recently manager of the Central News Agency of the Chinese Government in Hongkong, left the colony by the American Clipper on January 18, to take up his new post in New York as correspondent of the Agency, says a Hongkong, mes sage to the "Sin Wan Pao." Mr.
was seen off at' the aerodrome by the staff of the Central News Agency, and friends, the report adds, New U.S. Commercial Attache Here Washington, Jan. 19.
Mr, H.- Lawrence Groves, Com-/mereial Attache at Athens, has been assigned to a similar post at Shanghai with duties also as Consul, the Department of Stale announced yester-Mr Owen _L. Dawson, agricultural attache at Shanghai, Nias been dev signated as Consul in addition to his other duties, the Department added—United Press.
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