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

1889; Administrator, 1st class, Aug.

1, 1892. Decoration: Chevalier de

la Légion d'Honneur. Address: Saigon, Cochin-China.

DE MELLO, Aloysius (SINGAPORE), Straits Settlements Civil Service; b.

Nov. 8, 1880. Appointed to Colonial Secretary's Office as Acting Chief

Clerk, April, 1904; transferred to Chinese Protectorate, Singapore,

Nov., 1904; is Magistrate for Singa- pore; studied Chinese at Canton.

Address: Singapore, Straits Settle-

ments.

DE MIRIBEL, Marie Joseph (HANOI), Resident; Administrator, 1st

class; b. Feb. 15, 1858. Joined

Indo-China Civil Service, Sept. 11,

1890; Administrator 4th class Sept.

11, 1898; Administrator, 3rd class,

July 14, 1894; Administrator, 2nd

class, Jan. 1, 1890; Administrator, 1st class, Jan., 1, 1902; Decoration:

Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

Address: Hanoi, Tonkin, Indo-

China.

DEMPSTER, Capt. Herbert Thomas

(KUALA LUMPUR), Company Com- mander, Malay States Guides; b. May 26, 1882. Wing officer, Malay

States Guides, 1902; Company

Commander, 1904. Address: Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Federated Malay States.

DENHAM, John Edward (SHANGHAI),

Architect; b. Feb. 7, 1875; m. 1901,

Gladys, e. d. of John Smedley,

Architect and Painter. Educ.:

Hele's School, Exeter. Articled to

Edward George Warren, Architect; for seven years held appointment as Architect to the Shanghai

Municipality; 1901 joined partner- ship in the firm of John Smedley and Son, Architects, Shanghai and Chefoo. Address: Shanghai, China.

DENING, Walter (SENDAI), Professor of English in 2nd High School, Sendai; Journalist; b. July 23, 1846; m. 1870 and 1891. Educ.: Taignton, Devonshire, and Church Missionary College, London. Ordained in 1869; priest in Mauritius, 1870;

1870; mis- sionary, under Church Missionary Society at Andoverante, Madagas- car, 1870-73; missionary under Church Missionary Society lat Hakodate, 1874; relinquished holy orders, Nov. 17. 1885, and joined Japanese Education Department; appointed Lecturer in Ethics at High Normal School; joined the Naval Department as teacher of English at Naval Academy in 1890; became Editor of "Japan Gazette," 1891; went to Australia in 1892;

engaged in farming at Healesville, Victoria, for three years; returned to Japan in July, 1895, and took up

present post. Decorations: 5th

order of Rising Sun. Publications: "Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi," 1888; "Japan in Days of Yore,"

1888, (2nd edition, enlarged, 1905); "New Life of Toyotomi Hideyoshi," 1904; "High School Series English Readers"; "Anglo-Japan- ese Readers"; "Short Japanese and Chinese Stories," and numerous contributions to periodicals. Ad- dress: Sendai, Japan.

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DENNYS, Frederick Onslow Brooke (SUNGKAI), Asşistant Conservator of Forests; b. Oct. 31, 1873. Forest Inspector at Selangor, 1902; acting

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