The Archive · 1937

French Consular Promotions

Six Changes Announced for!

Officials in China Promotions in the French Consular! corps in China were announced on Dee, 30. as_follows:

Mf, Charles Lepissier, Consul at] Tientsin, has been promoted to 1M. Reynaud, Consul at Harbin, becomes a Consul of the first class.

Blondeau, Consul at Hankow, has been promoted to Consul of the second class.

M. Rhein, First, Secretary for Chinese Affairs at the French Embassy in Peiping, has been named Consul the second class, Mf. Germain, Second Secretary for Chinese affairs and at present charge of the Consulate at Mukden, has Been promoted to Secretary of the est class, MIN. Beaulleux, Third Secretary for! Chinese affairs' at the French' Em-[bassy, has been promoted to the sec-Jond class, with the law for the protection of native employment in effect, there no openings for office-workers Jand salesmen. Specialists and qualified labourers have to receive special permission from the Ministry of Labour. "Doctors and lawyers are given the right of practice only after they have thoroughly mastered the [Spanish tongue and taken. examinations "at the University of Havana, Arrivals must, within 24 hours after landing, deposit U.S.$500 as guarantee that they will not be dependent on charity, Citizenship of Cuba may be taken out after five years, at the end of which period it Is possible to enter the United States" outside of the quota, During the past few years the influx of Jews has been especially great, "No leas than 7,000 of these have arrived in Cuba, chiefly from the countries of Eastern and Western Europe, UCH, Photo. was caught ty the sudden construction of the Nantao boom. last

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