Ca-Director of Posts, who recently arrived here in connection with the transfer of the Directorate-General of Posts to Shanghai, left for France on Saturday by the MINS, Sphinx. He has been granted three months' sick leave by the Government in Nanking.
On Saturday morning it was announced that Mr. C.
Shields, Postal Commissioner in' Shanghai, had been appointed Acting Co-Director.
It is believed that this is the first occasion upon which anyone not of French nationality has been given such a position in the Posts.
Peking, July 1.
Several more members of the Postal Administration are expected to. leave for Shanghai this week, among them being the Travelling Auditor, Mr. H. A. Reeks, the secretary of the financial department, Mr. A. Eyde, and'the Service Buildings: Surveyor, Mr. H. J. Fairburn, who has long been connected with the erection of postal buildings throughout China. It is understood that his department, which is known as the Domestic Development Department, is being transferred to Shanghai-—Reater.
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