auspices of the League of Nations, has arrived in China "under. the to advise the Government in regard to the organisation of a civil service a problem to which Mr. 7. V. Soong drew public attention some months ago. Mr. Somervell has been {for some time at the Ministry of Labour where he was Private Secretary to the permanent head of the department. He visited Auciralia in, 1923 on a special mission of quiry regarding settlement schemes Birthday Honours Lord Brabourne is to succeed Sir Dealing first with the local in-Federick Sykes in December terest in Saturday's Birthday. Hon-Governor of Bombay, The most ours List, congratulations, already interesting feature of the appoint widely expressed by friends ment lies, in the fact that Lord must be tendered to Mr. R, Calder Brabourne will probably be the Marshall on his Commandetship of youngest. Governor ever sent the Order of the British Empive. to "India "in recent times. Mr. Calder Marshall's labours as Lord Curzon heme Viceroy President of the British Chamber lof India at the age of 40; Sir lof Commerce and as a zealous mem-George (now Lord) Lloyd was Gov-ber of the Boxer Indemnity Com not of Bombay at 89. bit. Lord mittee have been of great service Brabourne was only 38 last month. to his community. Not less adh Apart. fron Lard "Lioydy his pre:
lo has been the steadiness of his scissors at Malabar House assunyed import of all movements for better the: Governorship, Lard. Lamington interpreting British though, to 45, Lord Sydeniomat 3h Lord China and giving a clearer under-Willingdon and Sir Ecole Wilson at standing of Chinese thought in and' 'Sir Prederice Sykes at St turn to British residents here. An-This "recognition of the alme of other—if now " absent—friend—of omparani¥e youth fo high once and Shanghai in Vice-Admiral Ht. will be generally welcomed. responsibility' in atime" of "stecos Tweedie, formerly a forceful Rear-Admiral' of the Yangtze, was, well Temembered on Saturday. Many A Centenary wishes of good luck to Sir Hugh June 4 was the centenary of Tweedie were expressed. Sir Wilfrid Southorn—to give him his new the birth of Field Marshal Viscount title—aleo came within the purview Wolseley—the "model general" of of China's interest in the List the Victorian era andthe Sapper rival to the Gunner "Bobs." "Sir Hongkong is not so far away thal Shanghai fails to appreciate the Garnet," as he was colloquially known,' was credited with & Tess qualities of distinguished adminis. tration" and "unwavering courtesy unbending nature than the hero of Which have so long marked the Afghanistan and Pretoria, Island Colony's Colonial Secretary, Kipling came to bring Wolseley into common talk with vernacular Note too should be made of the KOMG, awarded te Mr.
Jallusions to his personality. But an ISevastopol, then in the Mutiny at a soldier who first fous formerly of the British Legation at Tucknony tater" in China, Canad, Peking. The award of the vacant Garter to the Earl, West Africa, Zululand and Egypt, Lytton is of special im-Garnet "won high. professional Portance 40 the Far East. The pre-esteem. Tin hina us service eminent Order of British Chivalry Deputy-Assistant-Quar-Jeslously guarded. To. high General to Sir Hope istoeratic claims there can be the "Anglo-French Expe-added only those based on out dition of 1860, recently recalled at standing achievements—a payadothe Memorial ceremony at Ninpo. tical and, perhaps, typically Eng-He took part in the action at Sin ho, the capture of Tangku—another lish treatment of a dignity once jestinigly described as honourable topical name—the storming of the because it was devoid of all merit, Taku Forts, the occupation of Tien Hsin, the Battle of Pa-lo-cheon and Lord Lytion's work as Chairman of the entry into Peking. Mentioned tke League of Nations Commission despatches, he received the medal jof Inquiry into the Manchurian problem has thus been specifically and two clasps and on return home, published the "Narrative of the recognised by the British Govern War with China in 1860."
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