Then, together, the royal family was going back to Christmas Island on one of the king's ships.
[Drawing: _The Call of the East_] The China coast is distinguished for its excellent United States consular officials.

And it hasn't been so for many years.

Our representative in Singapore, Mr.Dubois, is one of the best men I have yet encountered in one of our consulates.

He is a new-comer in Singapore and yet in his few months he has added more prestige to our consulate general than all the former men put together.

One can not but wonder why he is not a minister or an ambassador, instead of only a consul general.
Hongkong has been fortunate in having an excellent representative in Mr.
Rublee, and his recent untimely death is a distinct loss to the country.
Mr.Wilder is in Shanghai and he is decidedly a man of the best mental and temperamental equipment.