In Peiping and Shanghai, where he had ties of relationship, there will be regret at the untimely death of Sir Cecil Kaye—apparently on a railway journey for Kalka is merely a Junction uniting the main line with the Kalka-Simla hill railway. Sir Cee was an officer of the Indian Army who gravitated from military intelligence work to cumin tion and thus succeeded Sir Charles Cleveland at the head of the Central Intelligence Bureau—otherwise the Criminal Investigation Department—of the Government of India in 1919.
He was remarkably proficient in the unravelling of codes and to that git tribute on "his account was once publicly paid in the Indian Legista ive Assembly by Sir William Vincent, then Home Member in the Viceroy' Cabinet. Sir Cecil was responsible for the unmasking of the. Cawnpore Conspiracy Case in which certain Indian sympathizers with Bolshevism including M. N. Roy of Hankow notoriety—were involved, He had a specially close knowledge of Islamic affairs "and was personally a man of much charm' and incurable modesty. With Lady Kaye he visited Shanghai a little time ago and for some time they resided in Peiping.
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