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Mr. Shen Jui-lin was born at Wu-Hsing Hsien, Kiangsu province, in 1875. He is son of the late Shen Ping-cheng, Viceroy of Liang-Kiang. Mr. Shen became a provincial graduate in 1890. He began his official career as Senior Secretary of the Board of War. Subsequently he was awarded the rank of Taotai. The first position Mr. Shen held in the Diplomatic Service was Attache to the Chinese Minister to Belgium. Later he became a Commercial Attache. Still later he was promoted to be the