Shanghai, Mr. Herbert Phillips, arrived here yesterday morning on board the Nagasaki Maru. Mr. Phillips crossed the Atlantic on the Empress of Britain, and proceeded to Japan on board the Empress of Japan. He is staying temporarily at the Cathay Hold, but will move into the Consul-General's residence within a few days. He spent a busy day yesterday making official calls, among which was a visit to H.M. Ambassador. Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Huges-sen, at the Country Hospital.
Mr. Phillips, who was appointed to succeed Sir John Brenan, is already well acquainted with China, having entered "the Consular Service as Student Interpreter in China on March 1, 1898. He received the China Medal in 1900, and was promoted to be a Second Class Assistant on April 5, 1902.
He was Acting Vice-Consul at Tientsin in 1903 and 1904, and Acting Chief Clerk and Registrar of the Supreme Court at Shanghai in 1905. He was promoted to be a First Class Assistant on August 16, 1906, and was Acting Vice-Consul at Chungking from December 12, 1907, to April 12, 1909. He acted as assistant in the Chinese Secretary's Office at Peking in 1909, 1910 and 1911, and was appointed Acting Chinese Secretary in 1910.
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