Shanghai, Jan, 10.
"1 am greatly pleased and much honoured to receive the nomination the first United States Minister to Australia," Mr. Clarence B, Gauss, American-Consul General in' Shanghat, told the "North-China Daily News" shortly after he had learned that he had been nominated for the post of American Minister to Can barra" by President Franklin Roosevelt yesterday. Mr. Gauss sald} that he had received no official news of his nomination and that the only Feports he had seen were press dis have always had the greatest interest In this Paeifle nation, one the great commonwealths of the Bue ish Empire," said Mr, Gauss. "There has always been a strong bond of friendship between Australia and the United States and J shall do what Lean to strengthen these cordial relations between the two countries Of course, T shall be sorry to leave Shanghai where I have many friends among the Foreign, American and Chinese communities, this. regret. is only natural but it is tempered by the fact that T will be going to the Tand down under.
President Roosevelt's nomination of Mr. Gauss for the Important post of Minister to Australia must be con~ firmed by the United States Senate before it is official. This confirma. tion, however, fs merely a matter of routine legislation. Unfit the Senate confirms his appointment Mr. Gauss will not receive oficial notineation of his. promotion. He has no idea Who will be chosen as his suecessnr, although some circles here predict that Mr, Frank Lockhart, former Counselor to the American Embassy in Peiping, will receive the appoint ment as U. S. Consul-General here, Tt will be Focailed that Mr. Lockhart. was geting Consul-General in. Shang hat during the recent visit of Me. Gauss to Manila,
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