The Archive · 1936

NEW COMMAND FoR VISCOUNT GORT

London, Feb, 22.

The War OMice announces that Major-Gen. Viscount Gort, vic, hat been appointed Commandant of the Staff College at Camberley.

Viscount Gort went to China in 1927 with the original Shanghai Defence Force as Chief of Staff to Gen. Sir John Duncan. served with distinction in the Great War, when he was mentioned in despatches "nine times and was} awarded the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished "Service Order and the Military Cross.

He was Director of Military Training, Army Jleadquarters, India, from 1952 until Early this year—Reuter. from the Fascists, or Agrarian Popu-Ust Party, their leader, Don Gil Robles having declared that he bowed the people's judgment, Apart from about 20 seats in the Cortes which are still undecided, the latest election returns give 237 seats to the Left, 180 to the Right and 50 to the Centre—Reuter,

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