SIR MILES LAMPSON
Departure for Egypt HIS WORK TN CHINA (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, December 13. Sir Miles Lampson, who is leaving China after seven years’ service as British Minister, to take the post of British High Commissioner in Cairo, left Shanghai for Egypt in the s.s. Ranchi yesterday, with his two daughters and niece. A large gathering of the British community assembled to take farewell, and naval and military guards of honour paraded. “The Times” remarks that Sir Miles Lampson leaves China with ChineseBritish relations on tlie pasis of firm cordiality.
The last official act of Sir Miles Lampson, prior to his departure from China was the granting of a reprieve, commuting the death sentence to life_ imprisonment, in the case of Mrs. Katherine Hadley, the first British woman to be sentenced to death in China, fol lowing the fatal stabbing of her lover. Captain Walter Youngs, a mariner
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 11
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