Tt has already been announced Yhat on October 10, the American Consul-Geneval, Inv, Edwin S, Cun-bingham, and' Mrs, Cunningham, will sail' for the United States on Home leave. Tt will be the first! vacation which the Consul-General has had since June, 1927, and both, and Mrs, Cunningham are look-Ing forward to it with pleasure, During the absence of the American Consul-General in Shanghai, Mr. Douglas Jenkins, who has been. Consul-General of Canton 'August 17, 1923, will relieve Mr. Cunningham and' be in charge in Shanghai, Mr. Jenkins has been transferred to. Hongkong but will not go to that post until Mr, Cunningham's return early next yea Mr, Jenkins has been in China since 1918, He was in charge of the American Consulate at Riga, Russi until just before that city was captured by the Germans. He then went to Kieff, which was also evacuated just before the Germans occupied it in March 1918, Mr. Jenkins was Consul at Harbin Unring the years 1919 to 1921 and in the Department of State at Washington, D. ©, in 1922 before he returned to Canton in the position of American Consul-General there, Mr, Jenkins will arrive in Shanghai as soon as Mr, Joseph W. Bal-Jantine, who is being sent out from the Department of State in Wash-Angton, to be in charge of Mr. Jen-Kins? office while he is in Shanghai comes to relieve him. The date ha not been definitely settled as yet. Mr, Ballantine has been in the Orient at various times since 1909 when he arrived in Kobe as student Interpreter, He was detailed for duty at the Consulate at Kobe in 1911 and also as Deputy Consul and Interpreter at Tamsui in 1912. In 1918 he was Deputy Consul-General and, Interpreter at Yokohama and in 1914 he was Assistant Japanese Secretary of the Embassy to Japan. He came to China in March, 192
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