Sir Percy Noble to Succeed Sir Charles Little London, Dec. 28.
Vice-Admiral Sir Perey Lockhart Noble, Fourth Sea Lord and Chief of Supplies and Transport since 1935, has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the China Station in succession to Admiral Sir Charles Little. He will assume command next February, in-ead of April, due to the illness of Sir Charles Little.
He will 1 for Hongkong in the P. & O. liner Comorin, which he will join at Marseilles on January 8.
Vi Admiral L.G.E. Crabbe. recently in command of the Yangtze Patrol, is Acting Commander-in-Chief of the China Station. it Percy Noble, who will be 58 years of age on January 16, served in the Grand Fleet throughout the Great War, at the close of which he was promoted Captain. He was Director of the Operations Division, Admiralty Naval Staff, between 1928 and 1930, Director of Naval Eq ment in 1931-32, and Rear-Admiral Commanding the Second Cruiser Squadron from 1932 to 1934.—Reuter.
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