Hongkong, Feb. 17.
The new British Ambassador to China, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, arrived here to-day on board the P.
O. liner Kaiser-i-Hind and was greeted by a gathering of distingnished personages.
Among those welcoming him were Vice-Admiral Sir Percy Noble, the new Commander-in-Chief of the China Station; Maj-Gen. A. W. Bartholomew, General Officer Commanding the British troops in China, and Mr. RAC. North, Acting Colonial Secretary.
After inspecting the Guard of Honour, drawn from the Royal Scots, the Ambassador drove to Government House, where he will live during his stay in Hongkong.
The Ambassador proposes to leave for Shanghai on February 19 in H.M.S. Falmouth. He is conferring with Mr. R. G. Howe, the British Charge d'Affaires over the best means of going to Chungking as soon as possible to present his credentials io Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government.
"As far as I know, I do not think the boycott movement in England will ever become official," said the new Ambassador in an interview here, He added that he had recently seen Sir Hüghe Kriatchbull-Huges-sen, his predecessor as Ambassador to China, who was wounded by Japanese planes while travelling from Nanking to Shanghai in a motor-car last August. The former Ambassador, he said, appeared to be making rapid progress towards a return to normal health.—Reuter. prisoners have been taken on either side, he added.
Admiral Noda repeated earlier as-sections that Chinese were hiding behind the fags of third Powers at various points in the interior. He declared that frequently Chinese troops sought refuge in foreign schools and missions where they fired on Japanese planes. At present Japanese aviators are respecting the flags of third Powers although "under international laws they are permitted to attack such places."—United Press,
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