Hongkong, Feb, 17, The now British Ambassador "to China, "Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, arrived here to-day on board the P.
liner Kaiser-1-Hind and was rected by a gathering of dlstinglulshed personages.
Among, those welcoming him were Vice-Adritral, Sir Perey Noble, the Jew. Commander-in-Chief of China Station; Maj-Gen. A.W. Bartholomew, General Offer Com. manding the British troops in China, ind Mr, RAC. North, Acting (Colonial Secretary.
After inspecting the Guard of /Honour, drawn fron the Royal Scots, the Ambassador drove to Government House, where te will live during his stay in Hongkong, The Ambassador proposes to leave for Shanghai. on February 19 in HIMS. Falmouth. He is conferring with Mr. R. G. Howe, the British Charge d'affaires, over the best means of going to Chungking s soon possible to present his credentials to Mr. Lin Sen, Chairman of the National Government.
"As fat as T know, I do not think the "boycott movement in England /will ever become official," said: the new Ambassador in an' interview here.
Be added that he had recently seen Sir Hughe Kniatchbull-Huges-sen, his predecessor as Ambassador 'China, who was wounded Japanese' planes while travelling from Nanking to~Shanghial in 8 motor-car last August,. The former JAmbassador, he said, appeared (0 be making rapid progress towards return to normal health,—Reuter.
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