U. S. Consulate to Lose its Right Hand Man When Mr. Joseph E, Jacobs leaves Shanghai on August 1, to join the Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs in the Department of State, Washington; D. C,, the U. S. Consulate for China will have to learn to write with' its left hand for Mr. Jacobs has long' been its right hand man. Not only will it lose a loyal friend, but it will lose the varied and distinguish. ed services of a man whose bri Viant mind and keen judgment have' long been realized all through China, Mr. Jacobs came to Shanghai in 1915 after he had been appointed Student Interpreter in China, Earlier in the same year he had been appointed Student Interpreter in Turkey but never went to Constantinople, In 1917 Mr. Jacobs was made Vice-Consul at Foochow where he remained in that capacity for a year. In 1918 he returned to Shanghai to take up his duties as here as Vice-Consul and Inter-prefer, Less than a year after he was designated to exercise judi authority and jurisdiction in civil jand criminal cases. Among the important cases which he tried while that capacity were of those who were arrested in connection with the Recently he was)
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