London, Jan. 12.
Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, fermery British Ambassador to China, has been appointed Ambassador. to Turkey. He will succeed Sir Percy Loraine, who has been appointed Ambassador to Italy in the place of [the Earl of Perth, who is to retire in ApriL Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, it Wil be recalled, was seriously wounded when Japanese aeroplanes fired on his car as he was travelling from Nanking to Shanghai in August, 1937. He spent several months in the Country Hospital in Shangpai, went afterwards on a cruise to the Netherlands East Indies, and subsequently returned to England.
In March last year a grant of £5000 to Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen was included in the Foreign Office Supplementary Estimates passed by Parliament. Mr. R. A. Butler, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, admitted in reply to a question in the House of Commons that the grant was unprecedented.
Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, who entered the Foreign Office in 1908, will be 58 years of age in March. Before his appointment as Ambassador to China in 1936, he was Minister in Teheran (1934-86), and previously Minister to the Baltic States (1930-34).—Reuter.
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