The Archive · 1937

PERSONAL NOTES

Captain and Mrs. L. R. Carroll left for Home on February 2 in the 63. Rawalpindi, Captain P. Gaible, Deputy Director of the French Concession Police Force, left for Home on Feb, 3 in the MUM inv. Aramis, The Rance of Sarawak was among the passengers booked to leave London for Shanghai on January 15 the s, Naldera, Paul E. Naggiar, France's Am~ bassador to China, has been promoted to the rank of Commander in the Order of the Legion of Honour, M, Montel, French professor at the University. of Chengtu, has been made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour by the French Government.

Sir Eric Phipps, at present British Ambassador to Berlin, will soon be appointed to the post at Paris, where hho will replace Sir George Russell Clerk, 'M. Guerard, Director of the Banque Franco-Chinoise pour lo Commerce et Mndustrie, has been promoted to the of Omicer in the Lesion of Dr. A. J. Bowen, former president of the University of Nanking, and Mrs Bowen are returning to China ext month from a holiday spent in America, Mr. A. P. Blunt, former British Consul-General in Manila, arrived in Canton on Fob. 4 to take up his new post as Consul-General in Canton succeeding Mr. H. Phillips M. Paul Rahael, a ci is) technical advisor to the Franco-Chinoise and a resident of Peiping, has been made Chevalier of the Lesion of Honour, Senor Guillermo Menoeal, formerly Cuban Minister to China, has been appointed Minister to Britain in succession to Senor Pedro Fraga, who has been transferred to Washington.

Dr. Roscoe Pound, Dean Emeritus of the Harvard University Law School, was to sail from San Prancisco on Thursday in the inv, Asama Maru on a round-the-world cruise. The trip will be his frst holiday in 25 years. Dr. Pound retired as active head of the Law School last year.

Vice~Admiral Lo Bigot, whose appointment to the post "of French Naval Commander-in-Chief in. the Far East was announced last month will sail from Marseilles on April 16 for Far Eastern waters to take over the French naval forces from the present Commander, Vice-Admiral Esteva.

The newly-appointed Assistant Military Attache of the Chinese Embassy in Berlin, Major Pan Hus-kuo, formerly of the Military Academy in Nanking, is expected to take up his duties shortly. His predecessor, Capt. Hoo, has been transferred to the commercial department of the El nese Embassy, Dr. Oscar Trautman, German} Ambassador to China, has presented: the certifteate for an honorary degree of Doctor of Political Selence fo Afr. Wang Ching-wel, chairman of the Central Political Council, The honorary degree was conferred on Mr. Wang by Heidelberg University late last year while Mr. Wang was in Germany.

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