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

partment, Negri Sembilan, Sept. 1899; executive Engineer, Kuala Pilah, Jan., 1901; executive Engi-

neer, Erd grade, Jan., 1902; acting State Engineer, 1902; executive Engineer, Erd grade, Tapalı, 1904;

executive Engineer, Batang, Padang. Address: Batang Padang, Perak, Federated Malay States.

COULSON, John Bliss (YOKOHAMA),

Merchant; b. Jan. 8, 1850; m. April

17, 1901, at Hongkong. Educ. : Clevedon College, Northampton, England. Director of Lane, Craw-

ford and Co., Ltd., Yokohama. Address: 253, Bluff, Yokohama ; and 59, Yokohama, Japan.

COURTEAUD, Leonard G. H. (HANOI),

Chef de Service de l'Enregistrement, des Domaines et du Timbre; b.

March, 1851. Entered Civil Service of Indo-China, May 9, 1883; appoin- ted to present post, March 21, 1900. Address: Hanoi, Tonkin, Indo-

China.

COUSLAND, Dr. Philip Brunelleschi (CH'AOCHOU-FU), M.B., C.M., Edin.; Medical Missionary. Educ.: George Watson's School, Edinburgh, and Edinburgh University; formerly secretary of the Shanghai Com- mittee on Medical Nomenclature.

Publications: Handbook of Physiology (Chinese). Address: Ch'aochou-fu, via Swatow, China.

COUVREUR, Rev. Nicholas Justin

(SINGAPORE), Procurator of Mis- sions Etrangeres; b. 1855 at Grancy- sur-Ource (Côte d'Or) France. Educ.: Ecclesiastical Colleges of Langres and Paris. Vice-Procurator of Mission Etrangeres lat Hong-

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kong, 1878-80; since 1880 Procurator

at Singapore; one of chief social and financial figures in Straits, where controls vast interests in

real property, etc., on behalf of Society of Missions Etrangeres;

though French citizen was selected by Government as Assessor, sitting with Chief Justice, Sir Lionel Cox, in case of expropriation of certain property belonging to the P. and O. Co., and Jardine, Matheson and

Co., for Singapore Railway in 1904 ; Considered one of ablest experts

on real estate and business in-

terests in Far East. Address:

Singapore, Straits Settlements.

COWEN, John (TIENTSIN), Journalist; b. Sept. 6, 1867, 2nd s. of late John Richard Cowen, Assistant Editor, "Yorkshire Post;" m. Marion, d. of Benjamin Wright, of Manchester. Educ.: Leeds Grammar School.

Has served upon editorial staffs of newspapers at Newcastle-on-Tyne, Leeds, Hull, Prestou and London; sub-editor of "The Times,” 1895-7; private Secretary to Editor of "The

Times," 1897-1900; arrived in China

as special correspondent in connec- tion with the Boxer 1ising in 1900; founded at Peking, on Jan. 21, 1901,

the China Times," the first

foreign daily newspaper published

in the Chinese capital; transferred it in April same year to Tientsin, where it is now published; also founded the first evening newspaper in the district the "Evening Ex- press"; sentenced in 1903 to im-

prisonment and deportation to the United Kingdom under the China and Corea Order in Council, for