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...Chinese statesman, in & out Foreign Minister of the Northern and Southern Governments, onetime (1929-31) Chinese Minister to the U. S.. son of the late great Statesman Wu Ting-fang; of a cerebral embolism; in Hongkong...
...spend two months examining Canada's banking system. For a second member of his commission Mr. Bennett got another son of a Scottish parson. Sir Charles Addis, former director of the Bank of England, former vice chairman of the Bank for International Settlements, now 71, chairman of the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank, proud father of six sons and seven daughters. Fortnight ago the two Commissioners arrived in Ottawa with their ladies, met the three Canadians appointed as their colleagues: Sir William Thomas White, vice president of Canadian Bank of Commerce, Canada's Wartime Finance Minister; Beaudry Leman, general...
...Howard newspapers, editor of the New York World-Telegram and onetime president of the Scripps-founded United Press. Arriving in Tokyo together, AP's Cooper and UP's Howard were wined and dined by all bigwigs from Prince Tokugawa down. After that Mr. Cooper visited Osaka. Shanghai, Hongkong. Mr. Howard flew in a military plane to Manchuria, interviewed Japanese and Chinese generals...
...game of "Consequences." Authoress Stella Benson met Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine in the charity ward of a Hongkong hospital. He was an inmate, she a visitor. Aged (77). penniless, shaky but brazen, the old scamp regaled her with such engagingly improbable tales, carried himself with such an unabashed air of grandeur that she was fascinated. A White Russian refugee, by his own account descended from an ancient French family, Count Nicolas spoke and wrote English of a sort; Authoress Benson decided to edit his rodomontadinous reminiscences. Pull Devil, Pull Raker is an antiphonal collaboration: the Count supplies...
...news for British and French businessmen in North China. Their colleagues in Manchuria had got a taste of Japan's policy of a nominal "open door" with a thousand petty obstructions for foreign businessmen. Last week two of the oldest British firms in China (Jardine, Matheson & Co. and Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp.) began to close their Manchurian branches. Fearing a duplication in North China, the British Minister to China, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson called on the Japanese Charge d'Affaires in Peiping, Shoichi Xakayama, and offered himself as middleman in direct negotiations between Japan and China. He made...