FRENCH DIPLOMAT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 223, 20 September 1935, Page 7

FRENCH DIPLOMAT.

M. JULES CAMBON PASSES. (Received 10.30 a.m.) PARIS, September 19. The death is announced of M. Jules Cainbon, the noted French diplomat. Jules Cambon was born in April, 1545, in Paris, where he studied law anil practised as an advocate, lie look part in the war of 1870-71 as a captain in the Garde Mobile, and afterwards took up administrative work, lie became a Government auditor, and was then sent to Algiers as attache to the Governor-General. There he soon became head of his department, and in 1878 was appointed Prefect of Constantino. In 1879 he became general secretary of the Paris Police Prefecture, and in 1887 Prefect of the Rhone Department. Four years later the Government made him Governor-General of Algeria. He then turned to diplomacy, and was in 1807 appointed Ambassador at Washington, from which, in 1903, lie went to Madrid, where lie strongly supported Delcassc's Moroccan policy. After his transference to Berlin in January, 1007, he proved a skilful promoter of France's plans in Morocco. He was fated to be the French Ambassador in Berlin, who, at the outbreak of war at the beginning of August, 1914, was handed his passport. After returning to Paris he became in 1915 Secretary-General at the Foreign Ministry under M. Briand. After the latter's resignation in March, 1917, M. Cambon left the service, but since 1920 has again found a post as President and member of the Paris Ambassadors' Conference. In July, 1921. he wrote for the "Revue des Deux Mondes" interesting recollections of July, 1914. Jules Cambon, like his elder brother Paul. Ambassador in London from 1808 to 1920, who died in May, 1924, belonged to the older and most successful generation of French diplomats. He was a member of the French Academy.