Shanghai, Apr. 3.
FTER serving for over four years as American Consul-General in Shanghai during the most troublesome period in the history of the city, Mr, Clarence Edward Gauss, newly appointed U.S. Minister to Australia, will sail from Shanghai in the s. President Taft at 1 a.m, tomorrow, Mr, Gauss will depart from the Customs Jetty at 4.45 pin. today in the barge of Rear-Admiral W. A. Glass-ford, Commander of the Yangtze Patrol.
Friends, members of the American Community in Shanghai, Consular, Diploma and mil tary officials will be on hand to bid Mr. Gauss bon voyage and, weather permitting, a guard of honour from the Fourth Marines will be drawn up at the jetty to render military honours.
Describing his tour of duty in Shanghai as the high spot in a not entirely quiet career, Mr. Gauss yesterday' told. the "North-China Daily News" that he would be sorry to leave Shanghai but that at the same time he was glad to be going to Australia, The frst American Minister to Can-bered said that he would spend three weeks with his family at Balboa Is-Tand, California, upon his arrival the United States, and later, proceed overland to Washington, D. C,, to report {9 the State Department. "He ex-ceted to remain in Washington for tone month and would no doubt see President Franklin D. Roosevelt before departing for "Australia, Mr. Gauss said that he expected to arrive in''Canberra with his family. in the middle of July.
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