HIGH COMMISSIONER

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 85, 7 October 1929, Page 9

HIGH COMMISSIONER

IRAK APPOINTMENT

SIR FRANCIS HDMPHRYS

CHOSEN

British Official Wireless.

(Keceived 7th October, 11 a.m.)

RUGBY, 6th October. The King has approved the appointment of Sir Francis Henry Humphrys to be High Commissioner for Irak in succession to the late Sir Gilbert Clayton. Sir Francis Humphrys was until recently British Minister ;at Kabul It will be recalled that he' was the last British subject to leave Kabul by aeroplane on 25th February, when he arrived at Peshawar with the Union Jack of the Legation under his arm. He had previously organised, in concert with the Royal Air Force, the evacuation- by air of British and foreign'residents ia Kabul. The spirit in which he confronted the perils and responsibilities imposed upon him by the Afghan revolution, during which the Legation was isolated and subjected to heavy fire, was the subject of many tributes, including one by Sir Austen Chamberlain, who ia the House of Commons expressed the admiration of the Government "for the courage and fortitude which Sir Francis Humphrys and his staff displayed ia circumstances of great difficulty and danger." ■■■■•.