General Sir Arthur Grenfell Wan chape, since 1931 High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief, Palestine, and High Commissioner Trans-Jordania, is now in Shanghai and is staying with Major-General AP.D. Telfer-Smollett, Commanding Officer of British Forces, Shanghai Area. General Wauchope, who retired from his Palestine commission a short while ago, is in the Far East on a holiday, and the length of his stay indefinite, the "North-China Daily News" understands, He arrived in the P. & O. s. Ranchi yesterday morning en route to Japan, General Wauchope is probably one of, the most outstanding figures of the British Army today. He retired from the Army in 1936, and was High Commissioner and Commander-in-Chief of Palestine and Jordania from 1931; he retired from his Palestine post about a month ago at the age of 64, his place being taken by Sir Harold A. MacMichael.
Joining the Army—the 4th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, to be exact—in 1893 as a Second Lieutenant, his promotion has been steady, his career one of distinction, In 1896, he transferred to the 2nd Batta-hon The Black Watch, In 1901 he was Captain, 1914 a Major, in 1922 a Colonel, Major-General a year later, Lieutenant-General in 1931, and when he retired in 1936 he was a Another Sunday is
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