The Archive · 1935

LIN. MILITARY ATTACHE

IN TOKYO

Major-Gen. F.S.G. Piggott to Succeed Col. James London, Nov. 23.

Moajor-Gen. F.S. G. Piggott has been appointed Military Attache to the British Embassy at Tokyo in ssu cession to Col. E. A. H. James, with effect from May 5, 1936, Major-Gen. Piggott, who has been Deputy Military Secretary at the Wai Mice since 1990, is 62 years old. He is the son of the late Sir Francis Taylor Piggott, former Chief Justice of Hongkong.

Educated at Cheltenham College and the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, he was specially employed in Tokyo uring the Russo-Japanese war from 1904 to 1908, in which year, jand again in 1912, he qualified as first class Japanese interpreter.

From 1910 to 1913, he was attached to the British Embassy at Tokyo, and twas Military Attache to the Embassy from 1921 to 1926." He served in Egypt and France during the Great War and was mentioned in despatches five times.

Major-Gen. Piggott is the author of 2 book entitled "The Elements of {informs the Chinese Government that.

must be dismissed, otherwise there will be a break in the. friendly' Jrelations existing between the two countries. So there you are! Nona is raising a big. Tibetan army In! Eastern Tibet to ght the Reds and) [Lhasa ts suspicious that the Nona Lama may turn its energies in another direction. Nona has a secret ambition and that is to destroy the ower of the Yellow Sect: in the Land of the Lamas. Being a Red himself and once a White he has no Tave for the Yellow and is bent on its destruction. Nona is now directing an attack on the Reds at Tailing (ib. Ga-da) three days from Ta-chien lu, and the border is keenly watching the outcome. Norla's sincerity is being tested.

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