Barrister Arrives Here at Beginning of Trouble*
Mr. Peter Watkin Williams w: s yesterday admitted to the bar of H.M. Supreme Court for China by Sir Allan Mossop. Welcoming and congratulating Mr. Williams, Sir Allan remarked that both he and Mr. Williams went to the same university, and the same college, this being Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Before his arrival in China from London on August 7, Mr. Williams was a barrister-of-law of the Inner Temple, and subsequently joined the "Western Circuit. Coming to Shanghai just before hostilities broke out, Mr. Williams joined up in the Air Defence Company, S.V.C., and was stationed for several days at "B" Blockhouse. He is now a member of the firm of Hanson's, Peking Road.
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