Major Geérard Enters on His New Duties Major F. W. Gerrard, who was recently appointed Commissioner of Police to succeed Capt, E. I. M. Bar-reft, has assumed his duties.
It will be remembered that the Council in accepting Capt, Bar reft's resignation expressed its appreciation of his long service which extended over a period of 22 years.
Major Gerrard was seconded from India by the British Government in May this year for the purpose of investigating the organization of the Police Force and to advise the Council in regard thereto.
'The new Commissioner left' Aberdeen University in 1908 to join the Indian Police. At the outbreak of the Great War, he was commissioned and served inthe Indian Army on the North West Frontier and in Mesopotamia. In 1920 he was decorated with the C.LE. During his career he served in Basra in charge of the police and held the post of Deputy Inspector-General unfit 1922 when he returned to India.
Major Gerrard also took an important part in the organization of the police department of Iraq, holding the rank of Deputy. Inspector-General in charge of the C. I.
The new Commissioner was accom panied to Shanghai by and this is their first visit to Chi Tire National Associated Chambers of Commerce have received a notice from the Ministry of Industry, Commerce & Labour forbidding merchants to employ foreign accountants." The notice says that documents, accounts, books, ete, certified ity foreign accountants not. be considered as bind.
Tt is of interest to note in this connection that the District Court has forbidden the people to entrust foreign. firms with auction and appraising work, adding that the law will accord no protection to people the thieves in effecting entrance the shop called for great skil ingenuity, hut un a well-known fact that even the cleverest criminal leaves some clue which leads, in the course of time, to hie undoing. "In this instance the police have & cee tain amount of groundwork to go pon and it fe only a matter of time Before the arm ofthe law is able to bring to justice the persons for whom it is reaching. "ye seems apparent that the detectives are. convinced that the. bur~ gits were foreigners, although ths Flee Saat Chinese way have. par fieipid" Ju: the deed is nep 1038 Sight of. new Commissioner of Police,
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