Mr. Douglas Jenkins' Promotion to be Followed by Transfer OWS Contesroxnet Canton, June 11, After having served for seven years as Consul General at the port of Canton, Mr. Douglas Jenkins is to be transferred, and will become Consul General at Hongkong about October Ist, succeeding Mr. Harold Shantz, No news has come as yet concerning Mr. Shantz' transfer. Mr. James E. McKenna has been at the Canton Consulate for three and a half years, and has now been ordered back to' Washington, D.C. where he will take up duties in the State Department. This morning' he left Hongkong on the 3.8. President Jefferson for the States.
'As soon as he has been relieved, 'Mr. Culver Bryant Chamberlain will come up from Yunnanfu to take MeKenna's place. He is awaiting the arrival from home leave of Mr. Harry' E. Stevens, who has deen stationed at Shanghai for some time past in the American Consulate Gener The transfer of Mr. Jenkins follows close upon his elevation in the service to the highest rank, that. of Consul General first class.' Tt is. understood that he might have had. most any post for the asking, but where his married daughter lives, and the transfer to Hongkong comes at his own request.
'Mr, Jenkins has had an interesting career. For his "prep" school, he. selected the Porter Military 'Academy, of Charleston, South Carolina.' In 1901, he was admitted to the bar, and for several years was @ practicing attorney. Then he entered the field of journalism, was first reporter on and later City Editor of the Greenville News of Greenville in his home state. Became Consul at St. Pierre in 1908; was Consul at Gotcberg, 1912, at Riga 1913, Harbin 1918, and was sent to Canton March 30, 1923.
'Mr, MeKenna has risen in the service from an ordinary State Department clerkship. His alma' mater is Georgetown University. For © time he was on special duty. at the American Embassy at Mexico ty, 1OL7, wi signed to Antwerp in 1925, ing to Canton in November, 1926, Mr, Ballantine was born in India of American parents, Graduated from Amherst College. Became student interpreter in Japan, 1909.
during his entire career been either in Japan or in districts where there live large Japanese-speaking populations. He has been stationed the consulates at Kobe, Yokohama, Tansui, and Dairin. Mr. Me-' Kenna's successor, Mr. Chamberlain. attended Emerson Institute. Served in the Reserved Officers Training Corps, attaining the rank of Major. Appointed student interpreter China in 1920. Vice Consul in 1928, and interpreter in the same year he was posted to Tientsin in 1925, to Swatow in the same year, sent to Shanghai 1927, and 1928' was transferred to Yunnanfu.
Im Shanghai, Mr. Harry E, Stevens has many friends, and he is also well known there since he represented American interests in the Provisional Court. He graduated from the University of California. Was in the United States Navy 1913 to 1917, and in the students Army Training Corps at his college 1918- 1919. After examination, he became a student Interpreter in Chinn in 1022, and in 1024 became ice Consul of career, going that year to Canton. His transfer to Shanghai came in 1927, and the. following year he was made Consul.
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