The news of the United States Government's assurance to the Emperor of Ethiopia in regard to the cancellation of the all concession, dis closes the active engagement In the present North-East African crisis _pres-nee of yet another diplomatic officer With previous service in China, To Sir Miles Lampson in Cairo, Sir Sidney Barton in Addis Ababa and Count Ciano di Cortetlazzo in Eritrea, must now be added Mr. Cornelius van If, Engert, who, not so very long ago was the first Secretary of the American Legation at Peiping and was accounted a highly efficient and Widely-informed member of the United States Diplomatic Corps. Mr. Engert will find old China friends not only in Abyssinia and Egypt in his Present occupation, for if he has Sceasion to communicate with Rome, be will ud there that the Councillor of the British Embassy is Mr. E. M. B. Ingram who was, for some time, Sir Miles Lampson's fides Achates at Peiping and Nanking.
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