BRITISH CONSULAR SERVICE
* CHANGES IN APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCED (British official, wireless.) RUGBY, December 21. Sir John Brenan, who has been British Consul-General at Shanghai since 1930, will leave there next March: Later in the year he. will take up a post at the Foreign Office. He will be succeeded in Shanghai by Mr Herbert Phillips, who has been Consul-General at Canton since 1930. Mr A. P. Blunt, at present ConsulGeneral at Manila, will be transferred to Canton, and Mr W. P. W. Turner, Consul-General at Yunnanfu, will take Mr Blunt’s place at Manila. Mr W. Stark Teller, Consul at Tengyueh, and at present serving on the Burma-Yunnan Boundary Commission, is being promoted to ConsulGeneral, and will succeed Mr Turner at Yunnan-fu. . Mr H. A. Grant Watson, British Minister at Helsingfors, will become his Majesty’s envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Havana. Mr T. M. Snow, minister at Havana, will be envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Helsingfors.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21973, 23 December 1936, Page 9
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