The Archive · 1936

PERSONAL NOTES

Lot Hugh Cecil has been appointed Provost of Eton in succession to the late Dr. M, R. James.

Mason-General W. W. Godfrey has been selected to succeed Sir Richard Foster as Adjutant-General Royal Marines as from October 2, Cole H, Delsue, new French colonel who, will take' over the com= mand of the Sixteenth Regiment In Tientsin, arrived in Shanghal_on July 27 in the s. Aramis. from Marseilles, "and was met at the Wharf by' high officers of the French Forces here. A company of French troops were lined up on the dock. It Is expected that Colonel Delsue will remain in Shanghai for several days before continuing on (0 his new Dost, which he will assume on 'Tues-delay, August 4. Among those meeting' Colonel Delsue were Lieut Colonel L. Perretier, commander of the "French "Forces in Shanghi Captain C. Romanace, adjutant, ani Lieutenant J. Baudet, staff cicer. Upon disembarking, Colonel Delsue reviewed the troops lined up on the dark.

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