Appointment of Mr. E.C. C. Wilton Peking, Oct. 2.
Captain Tyler, for many years Chief of the Marine Department of the Maritime Customs and in recent years Adviser to the Ministries of the Navy and Communications, has resigned owing to ill-health.
Commander I. VY. Gillis, a retired American naval officer. has been appointed to succeed Captain Tyler as Marine Adviser to the Ministry of Communications Mr. E. C. C. Wilton has been offered by the Chinese Government! and has.accepted the post of Associate Chief Inspector of the Salt Administration, succeeding Sir Reginald Gamble, who resigned in September.—Reuter.
Mr. Wilton, it was announced in a letter by Mr. Rodney Gilbert published last week, was being sought by the Chinese Government for the post in question. He became a student inter-prefer in 1890, and. while in_ the Consular service was stationed at various times at Canton. Hankow. Macao, Ichang, Chungking.. Tsimanfuy and Yunnanfu. He was British Commissioner for the negotiation of the Tibet Trade Regulations in 1908, and had been Opium Commissioner at Peking and acting Chinese Secretary of Legation, besides holding the posts of acting Consul-General both at anton and Tientsin. He has the C.M.G.
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