Prominent French Resident Honoured by his Country M, J. Cochet, general agent for the Messageries "Maritimes in the Far East, is now being congratulated by his many friends in Shanghat, both in the French and foreign communities and among the Chinese, for news has been received that be has been made a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur. It was due in no. small part to this efforts that the Messageries Maritimes liners were! able to handle many hundreds of evacuees during the early months of the local hostilities and. that these vessels maintained almost normal schedules to the mouth of the river during the whole period, Cochet is a member of" the! French Municipal Council, of the Central Committee of the French Chamber of Commerce and of the Committee of the Shanghai International Chamber of Commerce. Born in 1690, M. Cochet graduated from the School of Commerce, Nantes, in 1908, when he joined the London office of the Messageries Maritimes. After serving in the army for the requisite period, he was sent to the Haiphong office, where he was employed when the Great War broke out.
He arrived at the front at the beginning of 1915 with the rank of. sous-officer of artillery, and remained with his company until he was demobilized at the end of the war with the rank of Lieutenant, He then "went back to the Messageries Maritimes, coming out to Shanghai in 1919 as sub-agent. After a year's service in Kobe, he returned Shanghai as agent, becoming general agent in 1928. In 1090. he was appointed general agent, titular, in the Sydney office, and aiter four years came back to Shanghai once more as general agent for the Far East. tue Municipal Council as learnt with deep regret of the death of Mr. 'S, Tanaka, manager of the local office lof Messrs. Twai and Ca, who was a member of the Orehestia and Band Committee. A letter of condolence has been seit on behalf of the Coun-li to Mrs, Tanaka,
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