Hangchow, Jan. 24. upon the Headquarters of under Gen. Liu Chien-hsu in central Ch: kiang and the Heaquarters of the anti-Japanese Self-Defence Corps at Kinhwa were staged by Japanese air units on Tuesday.—Domei.
Assistant Commissioner At Age of 42 Years The promotion of Supt. Victor barman, of the Shanghai M: al Police, to the rank of Assistant Commissioner was announced in the official Police Orders last night. Mr. Sharman, who is 42 years old, is one ai the youngest men ever to attain commissioned rank in the S.M.P. His promotion takes effect today.
Mr. Sharman joined the Shanghai force on October 9, 1919, after war service in-the Royal. Navy. He rose *hrough the grades to inspector (May 1, 1929) and superintendent (June 1 1038). As superintendent he was first assigned to be detective divisional officer of "D" Division (Wayside, Yulin Road and Yangtszepoo police districts). Last March, when Mr. H. E. Aiers left Shanghai on Home leave, Mr. Sharman became Personal Assistant to the Commissioner, Major K. M. Bourne, a post which he retained till the end of 1939.
The position in which Mr. Sharman begins his career as a commissioned officer is that of Divisional Officer "A" Division, comprising the Central, Louza and Chengtu Road police dis-tricks. Here he succeeds Mr. H. D.
M. Robertson, Assistant Commissioner, who is teking charge of the Armed and Training Reserve and Sikhs afler the retirement, next month, of Mr. W. E. Fairbairn, Assistant Commissioner.
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