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day is a twelve-page paper, containing about twenty-one columns of letterpress, besides shipping news, commercial intelligence, and a share list. In addition to Reuter’s tele- graphic service, it has an exclusive cable service from Washington, Tokyo, and London. A feature is made of outport news, early and reliable information being obtained from correspondents in over eighty of the principal cities in China.

Notes on Native Affairs, published daily, contains the Jatest information from native sources, and regular letters are published from correspondents in London (where the paper has political, lady, and sporting corre- spondents), Paris, St. Petersburg, Hongkong, Peking, Tokyo, Australia, Chicago, and India. Special attention is given to commercial news.

As the medium of official notifications of the Municipal Council, the North China Daily News publishes a weekly Municipal Gazette.

The Herald, which is the weekly edition of the paper, contains about seventy pages of letterpress, and is published on Saturday, for transmission by the Siberian mail on Tuesday. A quarterly index is published, as the Herald has now reached a size when it cannot conveniently be bound in six-monthly volumes.

The North China Daily News and Herald occupies a unique position, not only in China but throughout the East.

The Herald circulates all over the world, and its views are not infrequently quoted in the Houses of Parliament, and within the past few years Prince Biilow has cited it for its friendly policy towards Germany.

H. T. MONTAGUE BELL.

Editor. MR. HENRY THURBURN MONTAGUE BELL, editor of the North China Daily

News, and North China Herald, was formerly a member of the foreign staff of the London Times. He is a son of the late Mr. J. L. Bell, merchant of Egypt and Ceylon. While at the St. Paul’s School, London, he gained a classical scholarship, to Peterhouse, Cam- bridge, where he graduated with first-class classical honours in 1895. In December, 1895, he was appointed assistant correspondent for The Times in Berlin. In 1898 he pro- ceeded to the Balkans as acting correspondent for The Times, and remained there for two and a half years, gaining an intimate know- ledge of Greece, Servia, Bulgaria, Montenegro,

and Macedonia. During the Boer War he was in the field for some eighteen months,

as war correspondent for Zhe Times and received the Queen’s medal. Subsequently, from 1902 to 1906, he was The Times’

correspondent for the whole of South Africa. He arrived in Shanghai to take up his present appointment in July, 1906. Mr. Bell, who is thirty-five years of age, was married in 1903 to the only daughter of the late Mr. E. Chadwick, of Bromley, Kent. His chief

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The Shanghai Mercury.

The record of the Shanghai Mercury, a ten-page evening journal with a large cir- culation, has been one of steady progress, and no local newspaper commands a greater share of influence in the field of domestic politics in Shanghai. It was founded on April 17, 1879, by Messrs. J. D. Clark and

Rivington, and speedily attained wide popu- larity.

Mr, Clark was a man of varied

THE EDITORIAL OFFICE.

recreations are earlier

cricket and tennis, but in years he was an enthusiastic all- round sportsman, captaining his college cricket and Rugby teams, and gaining his colours for rowing, tennis, and_ athletics. He is a member of the principal local clubs, and of the Rand Club, Johannesburg.

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experience. He had been in the Royal Navy, he had assisted in the establishment of the Rising Sun and Nagasaki Express, and he had been in business in Shanghai as a merchant and broker. He _ therefore brought to bear upon the conduct of the paper a knowledge of peculiar value in Shanghai, and the result was that the Mercury began at once to make headway. In 1889 the Courier and the Cele: E were bought, and the latter was continued as a

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