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WHO'S WHO IN THE FAR EAST (JUNE) 1906-7.

Universities of Bonn, Munich and Paris. Foreign Editor, "Galignani's Messenger," Paris, 1901-02; London Correspondent, "L'Eclair," Paris, 1902-03; Foreign Editor, "The Car," Loudon, 1903-04. Clubs· Penang; London Press. Address: 14, Scot- land Road, Penang, Straits Settle-

ments.

WEN TS'UNG YAO (CANTON), Taotai. Educ. Hongkong. Interpreter for Chinese Treaty Commissioners dur- ing Tariff negotiations with Sir James Mackay at Shanghai in 1903; director, Canton Bureau of Foreign Affairs, 1905-6.

WERNER, Edward Theodore Chal-

mers (KEWKIANG), H.B.M. Consul. Appointed Student Interpreter in China, April 7, 1884; discharged duties of Accountant to Legation at Peking, 1888 and 1889; ag. Vice- Consul at Macao, 1894 to 1896; promoted 1st Asst., Sept. 27, 1897; Vice-Consul at Pagoda Island, May 13, 1899 ag. Consul at Hangchow, 1898 to 1899; promoted Consul at Kiungchow, Feb. 24, 1900; in charge

of Consulate, Pakhoi, 1901 to 1902 ; promoted Consul for Kiungchow and Pakhoi, May, 1904; Consul at Kewkiang, 1906. Address: H.B.M. Consulate, Kewkiang, China.

WEST, Dr. Benjamin Franklin (SINGAPORE), M.D. ; Doctor of Me- dicine, Presiding Elder, Mission- ary to the Chinese; Editor “Ma- laysia Message”; b. April 22, 1858, at Montgomery Co., Indiana, U.S.A.; m. May 15, 1886, Letty Graham. Educ; Stabash College,

Miami Med. Coll. Graduated in

medicine at age of 21; after practi-

sing for six years called to ministry

of Meth. Episc. Ch. ; sent to Singa- pore as Missionary, 1887; presiding

of elder in charge

Penang District, 1890-1901; presiding elder in charge of Singapore District,

since 1901. Publications : Transla-

tions into Hokkien Chinese; "His-

tory of Malaysia Mission of the Methodist Episcopal Church" (in preparation). Address: Singapore,

Straits Settlements.

WEST, Charles Dickinson (TOKYO), Professor of Mech. Eng. in Eng.

Coll. of Imp. University, Tokyo; b. Dublin, 1847. Educ Trin. Coll. Dub., graduated 1869. Served for some time in Eng. Dept. of Birken- head Iron Works; came to Japan,

in 1882, as Prof. of Mech. Eng. in Imperial Coll. of Engineering (Kobu Dai Gaku), Tokyo; continued to hold same post after that institu- tion was incorporated with Imp University. Decorations; 3rd Order

of the Sacred Treasure; 4th order

of the Rising Sun. Club; Tokyo.

Address: Coll. of Eng., Imperial

University, Tokyo, Japan.

WESTWATER, Dr. A. Macdonald (LIAOYANG), L.R.C.P., L.R.C.S., Edin.; Medical Miss., Un. Free Cli. of Scotland; b. April 30, 1854.

Educ.: at Edinburgh. Appointed

Med. Miss. of United Presh. Ch. of

Scotland (now United Free Ch. of Scotland) 1881; Superintended

relief work in Liaoyang district during floods of 1888, and distributed relief in 50 villages to 20,000 people; surgeon to Russian Red Cross Soc. during Boxer campaign, 1900-01;

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